CHINA:
4. ByteDance 字节跳动 Recruits For Its Unannounced Virtual Idol Group “Project V”
5. Pinduoduo 拼多多 pushes US$7.1 billion e-commerce campaign in rural China
6. Luckin 瑞幸咖啡 is being sued by Chinese investors under brand new law
7. Biotech firm APTBIO 中科新生命 gets nearly $28m in Series A round
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. SoftBank-backed Oyo cuts salaries, furloughs employees
2. Singapore-based SensorFlow bags $8.3m in series A+ money
3. Former Lazada execs’ OnPoint snaps up $8m to double down on Vietnam
CROSS-BORDER:
1. China-based EV startup Byton 拜腾 furloughs half of its 450-person staff in the US
OVERSEAS:
1. AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service
2. Digital Marketing Company TapClicks expands its marketing platform by acquiring AdStage
3. Zoom daily users surge to 300 million despite privacy woes
4. Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more
5. Collaborative meeting notes platform Hugo nabs seed funding from Google, Slack
6. SpaceX successfully launches 60 more Starlink satellites as it continues towards 2020 service debut
8. New York payments startup Paay exposed millions of credit card numbers
9. Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator reboots its incubation program with 16-member cohort
11. Graduate H1 closes on $12.9M for its professional healthcare database
12. Fishtown Analytics raises $12.9M Series A for its open-source analytics engineering tool
13. Granulate announces $12M Series A to optimize infrastructure performance
14. Legal Tech Platform Bodhala Brings In $10M To Help Clients Streamline Spending
15. VR telemedicine platform XRHealth raises $7M
16. Comet.ml nabs $4.5M for more efficient machine learning model management
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