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Northzone raises a new $500M fund to invest primarily in Series A and B rounds of European and East Coast US startups, amid a slew of new European VC funds (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Northzone raises a new $500M fund to invest primarily in Series A and B rounds of European and East Coast US startups, amid a slew of new European VC funds  —  Northzone, the European VC firm that’s probably best-known for being an early backer of Spotify, has raised a new $500

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Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China's top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China’s top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own  —  China’s top white-hat hackers have gathered in Chengdu to test zero-days against today’s top software. Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup,

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Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A  —  Wayve, a U.K.-based startup that’s developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning … Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary

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Line and SoftBank's Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020 (Nikkei Asian Review)

Nikkei Asian Review: Line and SoftBank’s Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020  —  SoftBank and Naver’s venture to be Japan’s largest online player  —  TOKYO — The operators of Yahoo sites in Japan and the Line chat app jointly announced …

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Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as next month, would debut it initially in Brazil, India, more (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as next month, would debut it initially in Brazil, India, more  —  The Chinese company behind the popular video app TikTok is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple …

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