June 9, 20210CommentsDoorDash launches in Japan, marking the company’s first foray into Asia, starting in Sendai, a city north of Tokyo with a population of ~1M (Financial Times)
June 9, 20210CommentsBangalore-based Refyne, which works with employers to let workers access their earned salaries in real-time, raises $16M Series A after a $4.1M seed in Dec. (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
June 9, 20210CommentsScalable Capital, a Germany-based neo-broker and wealth management service, raises $180M Series E led by Tencent at a $1.4B valuation (Isabel Woodford/Sifted)
June 9, 20210CommentsAn inside look at how Google’s Ethical AI team fell apart following the contentious departure of Timnit Gebru and then Margaret Mitchell (Tom Simonite/Wired)
June 9, 20210CommentsSinch snaps up MessageMedia for $1.3B to compete with Twilio in business SMS services
June 9, 20210CommentsMarc Benioff says he expects 50% to 60% of Salesforce employees to work from home even after the pandemic ends, up from about 20% before the pandemic hit (Ari Levy/CNBC)
June 9, 20210CommentsEl Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after lawmakers voted by a “supermajority” in favor of the Bitcoin Law (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
