Overseas:
2. FanAI buys Waypoint Media to better track fan engagement for streaming monetization
3. Waze expands its Bluetooth beacons to New York City to end GPS signal blackouts
4. Nvidia’s Quadro Virtual Workstations are now available on Azure
5. IBM builds a more diverse million-face data set to help reduce bias in AI
6. Data management giant Rubrik leaked a massive database of client data
7. Facebook, Google and Twitter told to do more to fight fake news ahead of European elections
8. Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
9. Home improvement platform Houzz lays off 180, reportedly gears up for public listing
10. Amazon to fund computer science classes in over 130 NYC high schools
11. Line partners with Visa to launch credit card
12. Alphabet-backed Medicare Advantage startup Clover Health raises $500M
13. Slack now has more than 10 million daily active users
14. Knotch raises $25M to help marketers collect data about their content
15. Argo AI acquires permit to test autonomous vehicles in California
16. Starting with data centers, Carbon Relay is slashing energy costs and emissions using AI
17. Petal raises $30M from Valar to bank the unbanked with credit cards
18. Verbit raises $23M for its transcription service
19. Timescale announces $15M investment and new enterprise version of TimescaleDB
20. Aiming to change the way people take medicine, Lyndra Therapeutics raises $55 million
21. Humanforce bags $16m from Accel-KKR (workforce management solution)
China:
1. Alibaba’s alternative to the app store reaches 230M daily users
2. WeWork could challenge Starbucks in China with new on-demand service
3. US charges Huawei with stealing trade secrets, fraud
4. It’s time to pay serious attention to TikTok
5. Hong Kong VR startup nabs $68m from Andreessen Horowitz
7. Yosemite Clinic won a billion-yuan B round of financing
8. Xiaohongshu 小红书 completed more than 300 million US dollars of Round D financing
Blockchain:
First Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin hits crypto exchanges
Mobile:
1. Apple is rethinking international iPhone pricing as revenues slip
2. Apple’s global active install base of iPhones surpassed 900 million this quarter
3. iPhone FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying Was Flagged to Apple Over a Week Ago
Emerging Market:
1. Indonesia’s Salim Group ventures into esports
2. Indonesian health and fitness startup nabs funding from East Ventures
3. Southeast Asia’s Grab is adding Netflix-like video streaming to its ride-hailing app
4. New VC firm focused on Southeast Asia and India launches with $50m fund
5. Oyo plans to invest $100m to expand its Indonesia business
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