Overseas:
1. Amazon interested in buying Boost from T-Mobile, Sprint – sources
2. Uber loses $1 billion in quarter as costs grow for drivers, food delivery
4. SoftBank’s Vision Fund to borrow $4 billion against stakes in Uber, Slack and Guardant Health
5. SoftBank picks Nokia and Ericsson for 5G rollout, snubs Huawei
6. Pillar launches with $5.5M from Kleiner Perkins and others to tackle your student loan debt
7. Password manager Dashlane raises $110M in Series D, adds CMO
8. Firefly raises $30M to bring more ads to Ubers, Lyfts and taxis
9. Soona raises $1.2M for quick, affordable content creation
10. Machine learning startup Weights & Biases raises $15M
11. Insight Partners acquires threat intel company Recorded Future for $780M
12. Enterprise cybersecurity startup BlueVoyant raises $82.5M at a $430M+ valuation
13. Healthcare data integration startup Abacus Insights lands $12.7M Series A
China:
2. Tencent sues Bytedance over gameplay videos
3. Chinese database exposed 48.5 million dating app user records
4. Kwai 快手 launched the online e-commerce campus to train users
Cross-border:
2. Huawei launches 5G lab in South Korea, but keeps event low-key after U.S. ban
3. Alibaba pumps $100 million into Vmate to grow its video app in India
4. WeWork, Alibaba Cloud partner on initiative to attract global companies
Emerging Market:
1. Gojek hits 10 million trips in Singapore within 6 months of launch
3. Indonesian insurtech platform PasarPolis enters Vietnam, Thailand
4. Singapore-based Healthy snack maker Boxgreen raises undisclosed amount in pre-series A
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