June 9, 20210CommentsA look at the legal fight between Amazon and Reliance over Indian retail company Future Group, which has agreed to sell its retail assets to Reliance for $3.4B (Aman Sethi/New York Times)
June 9, 20210CommentsA men’s brand, Faculty, launches with nail polish — and seed funding from Estee Lauder
June 9, 20210CommentsAd-supported and subscription-only newsletters both have ways to understand audiences without the tracking pixels blocked by Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (Casey Newton/Platformer)
June 9, 20210CommentsApple’s changes to notifications on phones and the addition of Mail Privacy Protection could hurt publishers, including solo newsletter publishers on Substack (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
June 9, 20210CommentsBiden admin announces steps to bolster US supply chains, including for chips and rare earth metals, and a “strike force” to combat unfair trade practices (Christina Wilkie/CNBC)
June 9, 20210CommentsWagely, an Indonesian earned wage access and financial services platform, raises $5.6M
June 9, 20210CommentsGrabango, which develops computer vision-based check-out free tech for existing grocery and convenience stores, raises $39M Series B led by Commerce Ventures (Rebecca Szkutak/Forbes)
June 9, 20210CommentsChinese grocery delivery app Dingdong Maicai, which is backed by Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management, has filed for a US IPO; it has raised $1B+ total (Ankit Ajmera/Reuters)
June 9, 20210CommentsOverhaul, whose software allows companies to have full visibility of their supply chain in real time, raises $35M Series B led by Macquarie Capital (Cassidy Ritter/Built In Austin)
June 9, 20210CommentsTrump congratulates Nigeria for Twitter ban, says more countries should do the same