Tech
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Flywire’s flotation suggests the IPO slowdown is behind us
Boston-based payment processor Flywire announced its IPO pricing last night. The company sold 10.44 million shares at $24 per share, the upper...
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India asks social media firms if they have complied with the new regulations
India has asked social media firms to provide specific details about whether they have complied with its new IT rules “as soon...
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Indonesian crypto exchange Pintu gets $6M Series A led by Pantera, Intudo and Coinbase Ventures
Along with the stock market, cryptocurrency is also seeing an uptick among retail investors in Indonesia. Pintu, a platform focused on first-time...
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Tesla will store Chinese user data locally, following Apple’s suit
The handling of user data in China has become a delicate matter for American tech companies operating in the country. Apple’s move...
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UK’s Paysend raises $125M at a $700M+ valuation to expand its all-in-one payments platform
With more people than ever before going online to pay for things and pay each other, startups that are building the infrastructure...
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US removes Xiaomi’s designation as a Communist Chinese Military Company
Xiaomi, one of China’s high-profile tech firms that fell in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, has been removed from a U.S....
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433Tiger Global leads $30 million investment in Indian Twitter rival Koo
Investors are backing Koo, an Indian alternative to Twitter, with large size checks at a time when tension is brewing between the...
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Emotion-detection software startup Affectiva acquired for $73.5M
Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection software startup Affectiva...
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518Getty Images leads $16M investment in Promo.com, a social video template tool
The social video tool Promo.com just raised $16 million in a Series B round led by Getty Images, the company synonymous with...
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531Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview
Lordstown Motors released its Q1 earnings yesterday, and the electric vehicle manufacturer is facing a few challenges. Expenses were higher than expected,...