June 7, 20210CommentsFrance fines Google $268M for adtech abuses and gets interoperability commitments
June 7, 20210CommentsA look at the plight of “pickers”, in-store shoppers fulfilling online grocery orders, and the cottage industry around tech tools that make them more efficient (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)
June 7, 20210CommentsJeff Bezos says he and his brother Mark will fly on Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight on July 20 alongside an auction winner (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
June 7, 20210CommentsFiling: Kanzhun, the owner of Chinese online recruitment platform Boss Zhipin, is looking to raise as much as $912M in a US IPO, with shares trading June 11 (Bloomberg)
June 7, 20210CommentsSources: Flipkart is in talks to raise $3B from SoftBank and several sovereign wealth funds, targeting a valuation of ~$40B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
June 7, 20210CommentsJeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight with auction winner
June 7, 20210CommentsVancouver-based Trulioo, which offers an identity and document verification service, raises $394M Series D led by TCV at a $1.75B valuation (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
June 7, 20210CommentsYouTube brings Shorts, its TikTok rival, to the UK, Canada, and Latin America, letting users pick soundtracks from YouTube videos and 250 licensed labels (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
June 7, 20210CommentsFrance’s competition authority says Google agreed to pay a fine of nearly $270M and promised to make it easier for competitors to use its ad tools (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
June 7, 20210CommentsYouTube expands TikTok rival Shorts to the UK, Canada, Latin America, lets users tap all of YouTube for tunes