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Microsoft updates its privacy rules for commercial cloud contracts, after a EU probe found that it failed to protect data under EU law (Paul Hill/Neowin)

Paul Hill / Neowin: Microsoft updates its privacy rules for commercial cloud contracts, after a EU probe found that it failed to protect data under EU law — Microsoft has announced that it will update its privacy provisions for commercial cloud contracts. It comes after the European Data Protection Supervisor [Read More...]

Elavon, the payments subsidiary of US Bancorp, to acquire Sage Pay, a payment processor operating in the UK and Ireland, for £232M in cash (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Elavon, the payments subsidiary of US Bancorp, to acquire Sage Pay, a payment processor operating in the UK and Ireland, for £232M in cash — E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we’ll see played out in the next two months of holiday shopping — and with that comes more [Read More...]

Opera’s Africa focused fintech startup OPay raises $120M Series B from Meituan-Dianping, SoftBank Asia, others, will expand to Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa (Jake Bright/TechCrunch)

Jake Bright / TechCrunch: Opera’s Africa focused fintech startup OPay raises $120M Series B from Meituan-Dianping, SoftBank Asia, others, will expand to Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa — Africa focused fintech startup OPay has raised a $120 million Series B round backed by Chinese [Read More...]

David Crais of CMG Carealytics Invited to NASA Cross Industry Innovation Summit

New Orleans, LA, November 18, 2019 –(PR.com)– David Crais, CEO of CMG Carealytics, was invited to the 4th Cross-Industry Innovation Summit held at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas last week. An exclusive group of Chief Innovation Officers from NASA, the US Navy, Army, Columbia University Business School, Barnard College, Amazon, [Read More...]

Northzone raises a new $500M fund to invest primarily in Series A and B rounds of European and East Coast US startups, amid a slew of new European VC funds (Steve O’Hear/TechCrunch)

Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Northzone raises a new $500M fund to invest primarily in Series A and B rounds of European and East Coast US startups, amid a slew of new European VC funds — Northzone, the European VC firm that’s probably best-known for being an early backer of Spotify, has raised a new $500 million fund [Read More...]

Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China’s top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China’s top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own — China’s top white-hat hackers have gathered in Chengdu to test zero-days against today’s top [Read More...]

Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A — Wayve, a U.K.-based startup that’s developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning [Read More...]

Line and SoftBank’s Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020 (Nikkei Asian Review)

Nikkei Asian Review: Line and SoftBank’s Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020 — SoftBank and Naver’s venture to be Japan’s largest online player — TOKYO — The operators of Yahoo sites in Japan and the Line chat app jointly announced [Read More...]

Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as December, initially in Brazil, India, and Indonesia (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as December, initially in Brazil, India, and Indonesia — The Chinese company behind the popular video app TikTok is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple in the music streaming market [Read More...]

Intel unveils plans for a 7nm Xe GPU, codenamed Ponte Vecchio, meant to rival Nvidia in handling datacenter AI workloads, but fails to give a release window (Dylan Martin/CRN)

Dylan Martin / CRN: Intel unveils plans for a 7nm Xe GPU, codenamed Ponte Vecchio, meant to rival Nvidia in handling datacenter AI workloads, but fails to give a release window — The upcoming data center GPU, in combination with its new oneAPI programming interface, will give Intel more ammunition to compete [Read More...]

After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain’s operator, to PE firm Ethos (Andrew Allemann/Domain Name Wire)

Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain’s operator, to PE firm Ethos — Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry. — I thought this might happen. And now it [Read More...]

The White House confirms that President Trump will tour Apple’s manufacturing plant in Austin on November 20 (Eric Rosenbaum/CNBC)

Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: The White House confirms that President Trump will tour Apple’s manufacturing plant in Austin on November 20 — – Apple announced its new Mac Pro will be assembled at the Austin factory after winning tariff exemptions from the Trump administration in September. — How Apple CEO Tim Cook won over Trump [Read More...]

Sensor Tower: TikTok has passed 1.5B downloads worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, with 614M downloads in 2019 so far, up 6% YoY (Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET)

Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: Sensor Tower: TikTok has passed 1.5B downloads worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, with 614M downloads in 2019 so far, up 6% YoY — The app has had 614 million downloads so far just this year, according to mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower. — TikTok has passed 1.5 billion [Read More...]

HP board unanimously rejects Xerox’s ~$33B cash and stock offer to acquire the company (Emma Newburger/CNBC)

Emma Newburger / CNBC: HP board unanimously rejects Xerox’s ~$33B cash and stock offer to acquire the company — HP’s board of directors said Sunday that they unanimously rejected a proposal from Xerox to acquire the company, because the offer is not in the best interest of shareholders and would undervalue [Read More...]

How the mesh Wi-Fi router startup Plume is winning partnerships with some of the biggest US and international ISPs, despite Eero’s fire sale to Amazon (Jim Salter/Ars Technica)

Jim Salter / Ars Technica: How the mesh Wi-Fi router startup Plume is winning partnerships with some of the biggest US and international ISPs, despite Eero’s fire sale to Amazon — Simplified device management might be more attractive than Wi-Fi mesh itself. — Yesterday, Charter Communications* [Read More...]

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