Wednesday, July 03, 2019

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  • Cubyn raises €12M Series B to let e-merchants outsource fulfilment 21 hours ago  –  Cubyn, the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfillment and delivery logistics, has raised €12 million in new funding. The round is led by DN Capital, with participation from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners, BNP Paribas Développement and the French investment b...
  • Superbacklash a day ago  –  Hot startup Superhuman has been getting some backlash, as often happens when someone notices the precise methodology that a startup is using to enable a core feature. We’re well into stage 2 now when, inevitably, the backlash itself gets backlash. The nut of it is that people have been exposed to...
  • Podimo raises €6M to become Europe’s ‘Netflix for podcasts’ a day ago  –  Podimo, a Copenhagen-based startup building what it hopes will become Europe’s “Netflix for podcasts,” has raised €6 million in seed funding prior to launch. The round is co-led by Germany’s E.ventures and Denmark’s Heartcore, reflecting the young company’s two planned country launches later this...
  • Despite Trump’s promised reprieve, Commerce Department tells staff to continue treating Huawei as blacklisted
  • China’s Didi removes 300,000 drivers amid safety overhaul
  • TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles children’s data and safety
  • Kyash, a would-be challenger bank in Japan, raises $14M
  • Intel and Baidu partner on Nervana Neural Network AI training processor
  • Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments
  • Newly unsealed court documents reveal additional alleg
  • New approach to state drone laws balances privacy and innovation 15 hours ago  –  An influential group of attorneys called the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) will meet in Anchorage in July to debate and vote on model state legislation concerning drones.
  • Europe moves closer to making VTOL air taxis a reality 15 hours ago  –  The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA), the regulatory body that provides the rules of the skies needed for commercial airlines and other air travel providers to operate, has released new certification guidelines that set the stage for commercial operation of both hybrid and electric vertica...
  • KKR confirms it has acquired Canadian software company Corel, reportedly for over $1B 16 hours ago  –  Yesterday we broke the news that Corel — the company behind WordPerfect, Corel Draw and a number of other apps, as well as the new owner of Parallels — had itself gotten acquired by KKR. Today, the news is confirmed and official: KKR today announced it has closed the deal, purchasing Corel from p...
  • Apple’s iOS 13 update will make FaceTime eye contact way easier
  • WeChat wants to own tourism
  • NSLComm’s first spring-loaded expanding antenna satellite is headed to space
  • China’s Alipay adds sought-after beauty filters to face-scan payments
  • SoftBank Vision Fund partner David Thevenon is coming to Disrupt Berlin
  • Klaus, the ‘conversation review’ tool for support teams, picks up $1.9M seed
  • Sony announces a new $185M fund to invest in tech sta
  • Verified Expert Lawyer: Sophie Alcorn 12 hours ago  –  Sophie Alcorn founded her own immigration-focused boutique law firm a few years ago, that has quickly become a go-to resource for founders and tech workers in the Bay Area and beyond. While immigration paperwork acceptance rates have been dropping for immigration paperwork under tougher requireme...
  • What everyone at a startup needs to know about immigration 12 hours ago  –  The immigration process in the U.S. has become a high-stakes undertaking for employers, workers, and entrepreneurs. Predictability has eroded. Processing times have soared. And any mistake or...
  • App revenue tops $39 billion in first half of 2019, up 15% from first half of last year 13 hours ago  –  App store spending is continuing to grow, although not as quickly as in years past. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the iOS App Store and Google Play combined brought in $39.7 billion in worldwide app revenue in the first half of 2019 — that’s up 15.4% over the $34.4 billion seen dur...
  • Reliance Jio partners with Facebook to launch literacy program for first time internet users in India
  • Samsung’s Galaxy Fold problems are reportedly fixed — so now what?
  • Stranger Things portals have appeared in Fortnite
  • UK’s CMA launches investigation into digital advertising and its ‘potential harm’ to consumers
  • Tidal highlights behind-the-scenes personnel with new credits feature
  • Google Pay gets more deeply integrated with Chrome
  • IP strategy: How should startups decide whether to file 
  • GPS on the Moon? NASA’s working on it 9 hours ago  –  If you're driving your car from Portland to Merced, you probably rely on GPS to see where you are. But what if you're driving your Moon rover from Oceanus Procellarum to the Sea of Tranquility? Actually, GPS should be fine — if this NASA research pans out.
  • Pax Labs CEO Bharat Vasan and serial founder Keith McCarty are coming to Disrupt SF 9 hours ago  –  The legalization of cannabis and hemp for medicinal and recreational use in states across the U.S. and in Canada has opened up a huge vein of green, green cash for startups. Two entrepreneurs tantalized early on by the smell of dank profits are Pax Labs CEO Bharat Vasan and Eaze and Wayv founder ...
  • Bored before the holiday? Go play the game built into today’s Google Doodle 9 hours ago  –  The concept of a Google Doodle — the little widget that sometimes replaces the Google logo on the company’s main search page — has gotten a lot more complex over the years. The first one (from 1998!) was just a simple static image of the Google logo with a Burning Man logo behind it, meant […]
  • Daily Crunch: FaceTime gets an eye contact upgrade
  • Amazon responds to a US senator’s inquiry, confirms Alexa voice records are kept indefinitely
  • Capital One CTO George Brady will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise
  • Boeing pledges $100M to families of 737 Max crash victims
  • E.ventures, the global early-stage venture fund, has raised $400 million more from investors
  • Colonna call, timing a VC pitch, WeChat, patents, and growth
  • ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ director to helm first 

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  • Grubhub says its contract allowed it to create fake restaurant websites a day ago  –  Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney has responded to reports that his company creates fake websites for its restaurant partners, claiming that, according to its contract agreements, these businesses have signed away permission for Grubhub to engage in the marketing tactic on their behalf. According to a par...
  • The best 4th of July tech deals we’ve seen so far
  • FCC filing is latest evidence that Apple will soon update its most affordable MacBook Pro
  • Why AI can’t fix content moderation
  • EV startup Rivian has poached dozens from Ford, McLaren, Tesla, and Faraday Future
  • DownDetector down as another Cloudflare outage affects services across the web
  • Xiaomi’s new Mimoji look awfully familiar, huh
  • There’s only one important question to ask about Apple’s future
  • China has been secretly installing spyware on some tourists’ Android phones
  • Valve released 3D models so anyone can mod the Index
  • Eddy Cue says Apple doesn’t dictate content restrictions for its original TV shows 15 hours ago  –  Apple’s Eddy Cue, who’s been heading up the company’s streaming efforts, has been making the rounds in the media over the last couple of days, providing glimpses into what we can expect from its TV offerings. In his latest interview with GQ Britain, Cue pushed back on reports that Apple was takin...
    Eddy Cue says Apple doesn’t dictate content restrictions for its original TV shows 15 hours ago  –  Apple’s Eddy Cue, who’s been heading up the company’s streaming efforts, has been making the rounds in the media over the last couple of days, providing glimpses into what we can expect from its TV offerings. In his latest interview with GQ Britain, Cue pushed back on reports that Apple was takin...
  • Stranger Things portals are popping up in Fortnite
  • Uber Eats ditches deliveries for in-restaurant dining test
  • A conservative audit of Facebook’s speech policies is running behind schedule
  • iOS 13 will fix the FaceTime eye contact problem
  • Samsung has reportedly fixed the Galaxy Fold
  • House lawmakers officially ask Facebook to put Libra cryptocurrency project on hold
  • Android co-founder Andy Rubin accused of cheating wife out of fortune while running a sex ring
  • Epic Games will cover refunds of Shenmue III to protect developer after backlash
  • Tesla rebounds from bad first quarter by setting new re
  • How to stop your emails from being tracked 13 hours ago  –  All of those obnoxious marketing emails that crowd your inbox aren’t just pushing a product. They’re also tracking whether you’ve opened the email, when you opened it, and where you were at the time by using software like MailChimp to embed tracking software into the message. How does it work? A ...
    How to stop your emails from being tracked 13 hours ago  –  All of those obnoxious marketing emails that crowd your inbox aren’t just pushing a product. They’re also tracking whether you’ve opened the email, when you opened it, and where you were at the time by using software like MailChimp to embed tracking software into the message. How does it work? A ...
  • Startup’s plan to deliver baby in space halted over ‘serious ethical, safety and medical concerns’
  • Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars
  • Ultimate Ears’ Blast Wi-Fi speaker is $69.99 for a limited time
  • The Department of Defense wants ideas for a tiny autonomous space station
  • Microsoft’s Your Phone app can now mirror your Android phone’s notifications
  • Play baseball with your food in a new July Fourth Google Doodle
  • VW’s Type 20 is an electrified dream of its iconic campervan
  • Deaths and injuries don’t slow Uber Eats’ rapid expansion in Mexico
  • HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon look to move some har
  • Kim Kardashian West wins $2.8 million from company that kept tagging her in Instagram posts 9 hours ago  –  Kim Kardashian West has won close to $2.8 million from the fast fashion company Missguided in a lawsuit claiming that the company used her “persona and trademarks” to sell replicas of her outfits, in part by continually tagging her on Instagram. The issue of whether Missguided’s Instagram behavio...
  • Boeing announces $100 million fund for families of 737 Max crash victims
  • Data from health apps offers opportunities and obstacles to researchers
  • Amazon can be held liable for defective third-party products on its platform, court rules
  • Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s J.A. Bayona will direct Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show
  • Copies of AI deepfake app DeepNude are easily accessible online — and always will be
  • Moment Pro Camera gets support for long-exposure photography on iOS
  • Trump’s latest Huawei announcement has left US companies in limbo
  • Canon is crowdfunding a tiny clippable camera that con
  • Facebook resolves day-long outages across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger 4 hours ago  –  Facebook had problems loading images, videos, and other data across its apps today, leaving some people unable to load photos in the Facebook News Feed, view stories on Instagram, or send messages in WhatsApp. Facebook said earlier today it was aware of the issues and was “working to get things b...
  • Superhuman says it will disable email read receipts by default after privacy controversy
  • YouTube’s ‘instructional hacking’ ban threatens computer security teachers
  • Google will make another big improvement to Android Q’s gesture navigation before release
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home is a full-on heroic triumph
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home’s post-credits scene fixes its biggest plot hole
  • Everything you need to know about the invisible e-mail tool that tracks you
  • ‘User Inyerface’ teaches you about terrible modern web design by making you suffer through it
  • Amazon confirms it holds on to Alexa data even if you delete audio files
  • Dr Disrespect and other creators keep hiding their apolog
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