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    • Verizon releases a Stream TV device running Android TV, heavily featuring YouTube TV, with none of Verizon Media's properties promoted and Netflix app blocked (Janko Roettgers/Variety)

    Janko Roettgers / Variety: Verizon releases a Stream TV device running Android TV, heavily featuring YouTube TV, with none of Verizon Media’s properties promoted and Netflix app blocked  —  Verizon has an answer to Roku, but it’s not talking much about it: The mobile carrier quietly released a new streaming device … Verizon releases a

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    • Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune, which launched as a crowdfunded news site in 2017, relaunches as WT:Social, a donor-funded social networking and "news sharing" site (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

    Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Jimmy Wales’ WikiTribune, which launched as a crowdfunded news site in 2017, relaunches as WT:Social, a donor-funded social networking and “news sharing” site  —  Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a rival to Facebook and Twitter that he hopes will combat “clickbait” and misleading headlines. Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune, which

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    • Spotify confirms it is testing real-time lyrics synced to music in its mobile app for some users; the feature appears below the playback controls during testing (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify confirms it is testing real-time lyrics synced to music in its mobile app for some users; the feature appears below the playback controls during testing  —  With the launch of iOS 13, Apple added perfectly timed live lyrics to its Apple Music app.  Now Spotify may do the same. Spotify

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    • Guild Education, which helps companies connect their employees to online higher-ed programs offered by universities, raises $157M Series D at a $1B+ valuation (Tony Wan/EdSurge)

    Tony Wan / EdSurge: Guild Education, which helps companies connect their employees to online higher-ed programs offered by universities, raises $157M Series D at a $1B+ valuation  —  The education technology industry has given birth to its newest unicorn, one that wants to connect employees at Fortune 1000 corporations … Guild Education, which helps companies

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    • Cybrary, a crowdsourced freemium cybersecurity training platform for enterprises that says it has 3M individual users, raises $15M Series B (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

    Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybrary, a crowdsourced freemium cybersecurity training platform for enterprises that says it has 3M individual users, raises $15M Series B  —  Online cybersecurity career development startup Cybrary Inc. today said it has raised $15 million in new funding to accelerate the growth of the company’s online workforce development platform. Cybrary, a

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    • PillPack adds "Amazon Pharmacy" to its logo and says it has filed paperwork that adds "Amazon Pharmacy" to the licensed name of its pharmacy fulfillment centers (Christina Farr/CNBC)

    Christina Farr / CNBC: PillPack adds “Amazon Pharmacy” to its logo and says it has filed paperwork that adds “Amazon Pharmacy” to the licensed name of its pharmacy fulfillment centers  —  – PillPack, the Internet pharmacy it acquired last year, has updated its logo to “PillPack by Amazon Pharmacy.” PillPack adds "Amazon Pharmacy" to its

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    • Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to determine if AnyVision complies with the ethical principles stipulated during the facial recognition company's Series A (Olivia Solon/NBC News)

    Olivia Solon / NBC News: Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to determine if AnyVision complies with the ethical principles stipulated during the facial recognition company’s Series A  —  According to five sources, AnyVision’s technology has powered a secret military surveillance project that has monitored Palestinians in the West Bank. Microsoft hires former AG Eric

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    • Filing: Bill.com, which makes payments software, aims to raise $100M in its IPO, says Q3 revenue was ~$35.2M, up 57% YoY, and losses were ~$5.7M, up 544% YoY (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)

    Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: Filing: Bill.com, which makes payments software, aims to raise $100M in its IPO, says Q3 revenue was ~$35.2M, up 57% YoY, and losses were ~$5.7M, up 544% YoY  —  Payment software company Bill.com is aiming to raise $100 million in an initial public offering, according to a filing with the

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    • Mexico's first online-only supermarket Justo raises $10M seed round led by Foundation Capital, with 500 Startups, others participating (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

    Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Mexico’s first online-only supermarket Justo raises $10M seed round led by Foundation Capital, with 500 Startups, others participating  —  Jüsto, an online supermarket based in Mexico City, has raised a $10 million seed round led by Foundation Capital.  —  Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily Mexico's first online-only supermarket Justo

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