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As Amazon reportedly considers a $20B investment in Reliance’s retail business, a look at the outsized influence Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani has in India (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: As Amazon reportedly considers a $20B investment in Reliance’s retail business, a look at the outsized influence Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani has in India — – Reliance said to be in talks to sell retail stake
Source: ByteDance notified US authorities and potential bidders for TikTok US operations that it will not sell or transfer TikTok’s recommendation algorithm (South China Morning Post)
South China Morning Post: Source: ByteDance notified US authorities and potential bidders for TikTok US operations that it will not sell or transfer TikTok’s recommendation algorithm — Chinese tech company decides not to sell or transfer code
Sources: Oracle has leapfrogged Microsoft as the most likely buyer of TikTok’s US operations, but there is still a possibility of no deal happening (Dan Primack/Axios)
Dan Primack / Axios: Sources: Oracle has leapfrogged Microsoft as the most likely buyer of TikTok’s US operations, but there is still a possibility of no deal happening — Oracle has leapfrogged Microsoft as the most likely
How DeepMind worked with former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to make its AI, AlphaZero, learn new variants, which could make AI chess more creative (Tom Simonite/Wired)
Tom Simonite / Wired: How DeepMind worked with former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to make its AI, AlphaZero, learn new variants, which could make AI chess more creative — A former world champion teams up with
GitLab, which has an all remote workforce of 1,300+ employees from 67 countries, is advising companies like Twitter on its “radically transparent” working model (Julia Herbst/Fast Company)
Julia Herbst / Fast Company: GitLab, which has an all remote workforce of 1,300+ employees from 67 countries, is advising companies like Twitter on its “radically transparent” working model — As 2020’s experiment with working from home
The public’s phobia of touching cash amid COVID-19 could help SoftBank popularize mobile payments in cash-addicted Japan; SoftBank has invested $1B+ in PayPay (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asian Review)
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asian Review: The public’s phobia of touching cash amid COVID-19 could help SoftBank popularize mobile payments in cash-addicted Japan; SoftBank has invested $1B+ in PayPay — Masayoshi Son zeros in on Japan, where
Paris-based insurance tech startup Descartes Underwriting, specializing in climate risk modeling and transfer, raises $18.5M Series A to expand in US and Asia (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Paris-based insurance tech startup Descartes Underwriting, specializing in climate risk modeling and transfer, raises $18.5M Series A to expand in US and Asia — Descartes Underwriting, an insurance tech company specializing in climate
Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees but critics say game publishers like Activision have too much power over players (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Wired)
Cecilia D’Anastasio / Wired: Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees but critics say game publishers like Activision have too much power over players — Franchised leagues are a modern experiment in what happens
IT service company Virtusa to be acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia in an all-cash deal worth about $2B (Joseph F. Kovar/CRN)
Kovar / CRN: IT service company Virtusa to be acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia in an all-cash deal worth about $2B — The large global IT services provider will join several other global IT solution providers
Facebook says it is removing misleading posts about how Oregon wildfires were started after initially saying it was reducing the distribution of such posts (Alyse Stanley/Gizmodo)
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: Facebook says it is removing misleading posts about how Oregon wildfires were started after initially saying it was reducing the distribution of such posts — As emergency responders in Oregon struggle to contain
Several H-1B employees hired at TikTok’s Silicon Valley campus are facing visa approval delays that, legal experts say, are unusual (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: Several H-1B employees hired at TikTok’s Silicon Valley campus are facing visa approval delays that, legal experts say, are unusual — The hits to California’s TikTok workers just keep coming: First,
Ubicquia, which helps cities provide services such as public WiFi through connected streetlights, raises $30M Series C, claims its tools are used in 100+ cities (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Ubicquia, which helps cities provide services such as public WiFi through connected streetlights, raises $30M Series C, claims its tools are used in 100+ cities — Ubicquia is helping keep the streetlights
Vancouver-based Klue, which develops AI-powered software aimed at giving enterprises better insights into their competitors, raises $15M Series A (Isabelle Kirkwood/BetaKit)
Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: Vancouver-based Klue, which develops AI-powered software aimed at giving enterprises better insights into their competitors, raises $15M Series A — Vancouver-based artificial intelligence startup Klue, which has developed software aimed to give enterprises
Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph (Sarah Manavis/New Statesman)
Sarah Manavis / New Statesman: Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph — On a typical day, a long-time
How TechCrunch moved Disrupt online, expanding to 5 days to mitigate screen fatigue and creating a 3D rendering of Moscone Center using green screens and sets (Max Willens/Digiday)
Max Willens / Digiday: How TechCrunch moved Disrupt online, expanding to 5 days to mitigate screen fatigue and creating a 3D rendering of Moscone Center using green screens and sets — Help us make your experience with