June 10, 20210CommentsKlarna raises $639M led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 at a $45.6B post-money valuation, up 47.3% from its $31B valuation in early March when it raised $1B (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
June 10, 20210CommentsGoogle plans to change its search algorithm to prevent sites that extort people to remove slanderous content from appearing in search results for people’s names (New York Times)
June 10, 20210CommentsFrench startup Yousign, a DocuSign-rival that provides an e-signature service targeting European SMBs, raises €30M Series A led by Lead Edge Capital (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
June 10, 20210CommentsPayments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries
June 10, 20210CommentsEU says there were 304 malicious attacks against “critical sectors” in 2020, more then double the 146 recorded in 2019, with a 47% rise in attacks on hospitals (Nick Paton Walsh/CNN)
June 10, 20210CommentsTata Digital says it is acquiring a majority stake in Indian online pharmacy startup 1mg; source: Tata acquired about 55% stake at a valuation of around $450M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
June 10, 20210CommentsRed Date Technology, the developer behind China’s BSN, or Blockchain-based Service Network, raises 30M Series A led by Kenetic Capital and Prosperity7 (Wolfie Zhao/The Block)
June 10, 20210CommentsEightfold AI, which uses AI to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers, raises $220M Series E led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 at a $2.1B valuation (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
June 10, 20210CommentsChina says its police have arrested 1,100+ people on crypto-related money laundering charges amid a nationwide crackdown on activities related to telecom fraud (David Pan/CoinDesk)
