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India's LendingKart, which helps SMBs access working capital, raises $30M Series D from existing investors, bringing its total raised to $143M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India’s LendingKart, which helps SMBs access working capital, raises $30M Series D from existing investors, bringing its total raised to $143M  —  As India continues its race to adopt digital payments at a pace and scale seen rarely worldwide, the country’s startups are quickly building solutions … India's LendingKart, which helps

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Texas regulator goes after cryptocurrency firm promising 900% returns in 2 weeks

Regulators in Texas have filed a cease and desist order against a New York-based cryptocurrency business promising a 900-percent return on investment in just two weeks. Forex and Bitcoin Trader, which was advertising on Craiglist Dallas, reportedly deals in cryptocurrency investments, commodity-based derivatives, and foreign currency trading. A statement published earlier this week said the company

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Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google's OS (Richard Lai/Engadget)

Richard Lai / Engadget: Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google’s OS  —  Huawei’s long-rumored Android alternative, Hongmeng, is finally official.  At today’s Huawei Developer Conference … Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an

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Facebook might be fined billions after losing facial recognition lawsuit

Facebook — inarguably the world’s largest facial database — has a lost a federal appeal in a class-action lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data of millions of users without their consent. The lawsuit began in 2015 when Illinois-based Facebook users sued the company for violating the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA),

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After denying it broke Instagram's rules, Hyp3r says it has taken its services offline for now, and is planning to meet with Facebook as soon as next week (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: After denying it broke Instagram’s rules, Hyp3r says it has taken its services offline for now, and is planning to meet with Facebook as soon as next week  —  KEY POINTS  — Facebook is setting up a meeting with Hyp3r, a marketing firm that was removed from Instagram after allegedly violating

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