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Overseas:
- Vizio wants next-generation smart TVs to target ads to households
- Time is Ltd. uses data from Slack and other cloud software to help companies improve productivity
- Siemens files most European patents in 2018, surpassing Huawei
- Blind users can now explore photos by touch with Microsoft’s Seeing AI
- Netflix is pursuing more interactive content, including, maybe, a rom-com
- Mozilla launches its free, encrypted file-sharing service, Firefox Send
- Harvard-MIT initiative grants $750K to projects looking to keep tech accountable
- Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (if you have a Pixel)
- Twitter launches its first podcast, ‘Character Count,’ focused on its ad business
- Investing app Stash raises $65M, launches banking and ‘stock-back’ rewards with Green Dot
- Lazada is livestreaming its birthday concert – directly on its app
China:
- Baidu, Chery launch electric car with face-scanning payment, AR navigation features
- China’s Qutoutiao is burning millions of dollars to take on TikTok parent
- US-based consumer robot maker iRobot to expand Guangzhou unit
- Huami steps up efforts in R&D of digital healthcare products
- Xiaomi releases its own social e-commerce tool
- B2B women clothing wholesale app Yishou 一手 received $55 million in Series B funding
- Founder of Momo 陌陌, a social search and instant messaging mobile app, intending to break into low-end urban user groups with audio, video and entertainment content
- Robotics and industry incubation platform zjrob.com 国辰机器人 secured 100 million Series A funding
Cross-border:
- PayPal to invest $750M, and Dragoneer $100M, into MercadoLibre, Argentina’s e-commerce powerhouse
- Japan AET Fund, Blume lead $1m pre-series A extension for India-based wedding portal
- Oyo to invest $200m in its India, South Asia businesses
- India mobile marketing firm Affle acquires Singapore-based O2O platform
Emerging Market:
- African e-commerce startup Jumia files for IPO on NYSE
- Dubai introduces cameras that use AI to measure people’s happiness
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