December 15, 20210CommentsBengaluru-based Juspay, which unifies diverse payment options in its app, raises a $60M Series C at a $460M valuation led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (Arun Padmanabhan/The Economic Times)
December 15, 20210CommentsBangalore-based Uni, which offers pay-later services, raises $70M Series A, sources say at a $350M valuation, led by General Catalyst, after $18.5M seed in 2020 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
December 15, 20210CommentsA look at Chinese fast fashion online retailer Shein, as 2020 sales reportedly hit $10B thanks to knockoff items, a nimble supply chain, and social media (Rest of World)
December 15, 20210CommentsHow China helps foreign influencers in the country who spread pro-China messages, funding their travel and generating lucrative, likely inauthentic, traffic (New York Times)
December 15, 20210CommentsSources: the US will ban eight Chinese companies, including DJI, for their alleged involvement in the surveillance of Uyghur Muslims (Financial Times)
December 15, 20210CommentsLeaked memo: Google tells employees they must comply with vaccine policies by January 18 or lose pay and eventually be fired (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
December 15, 20210CommentsThe US Department of Homeland Security launches “Hack DHS”, a bug bounty program that will pay hackers $500 to $5,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its systems (Martin Matishak/The Record)
December 15, 20210CommentsSweep, a France-based software startup helping companies monitor their carbon footprints, raises a $22M Series A led by Balderton Capital (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)