CT Attorney General William Tong announces an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s

Germany-based freight forwarding company Sennder raises $160M Series D on a

Sweden-based subscription management platform Minna Technologies raises €15.5M (~$18.8M) Series B

China-based self-driving startup WeRide raises $310M led by Yutong Group; the

Google says it will support President-elect Biden’s plans to reform US

Universal Studios Japan delays the opening of the Super Nintendo World

The Chinese government drafts legislation to allow the testing of driverless

Philadelphia-based healthtech startup NeuroFlow raises $20M Series B led by Magellan

Singapore-based Grab Financial (a division of superapp Grab) raises $300M on

Online used apparel marketplace Poshmark has priced its shares at $42

Amazon-owned Ring begins rolling out end-to-end encryption for its video doorbells,

Parler CEO John Matze says he’s uncertain if the social media

Snapchat says it will permanently ban President Trump’s account on Jan

Jack Dorsey shares his thoughts about Twitter’s decision to remove President

Poland-based InPost, which operates e-commerce parcel lockers, plans to debut on

Apple reveals new projects under its $100M Racial Equity and Justice

Telegram has removed dozens of public channels since Tuesday, targeting posts

Google to suspend political advertising on all of its platforms beginning

Qualcomm ($178B market cap) acquires chip design startup Nuvia for $1.4B;

Dropbox to cut 11 percent of its global workforce, 315 people;

The Department of Defense halts deployment of a $2B cybersecurity project,

The Trump administration cancels plan to blacklist Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent,

This Week in StartupsJason speaks with DocSend CEO Russ Heddleston about

Digital asset platform Anchorage obtains federal bank charter from the Office

Intel announces that CEO Bob Swan will step down Feb 15;

Hardware crypto wallet company Ledger offers a 10-Bitcoin bounty (currently worth

Airbnb cancels reservations for DC-area units during the week of President-elect

Point-of-sale lender Affirm opens at $90.90 per share in Nasdaq debut

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