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Tundra, a new zero-commission wholesale marketplace, announces $12M Series A; Tundra generates revenue via premium checkout options like faster shipping (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Tundra, a new zero-commission wholesale marketplace, announces $12M Series A; Tundra generates revenue via premium checkout options like faster shipping  —  Tundra, a new zero-commission wholesale marketplace, has today announced the close of $12 million in Series A funding. Tundra, a new zero-commission wholesale marketplace, announces M Series A; Tundra generates

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How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are using big data, which put gerrymandering on steroids, to easily and cheaply track redistricting (Louise Matsakis/Wired)

Louise Matsakis / Wired: How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are using big data, which put gerrymandering on steroids, to easily and cheaply track redistricting  —  THE SUPREME COURT’S conservative justices ruled Thursday that the highest court doesn’t have the power to address partisan gerrymandering … How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are

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Japan to tighten restrictions on the export to South Korea of materials for smartphone displays and chips starting July 4, in a dispute about war-time labor (Makiko Yamazaki/Reuters)

Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: Japan to tighten restrictions on the export to South Korea of materials for smartphone displays and chips starting July 4, in a dispute about war-time labor  —  TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will tighten restrictions on the export of high-tech materials used in smartphone displays and chips … Japan to tighten restrictions

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CoinMarketCap acquihires the team of Hashtag Capital, which started as a crypto trading fund, to improve the easily faked volume-weighted crypto price estimates (Daniel Palmer/CoinDesk)

Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: CoinMarketCap acquihires the team of Hashtag Capital, which started as a crypto trading fund, to improve the easily faked volume-weighted crypto price estimates  —  As its bid to improve its crypto data offering continues, CoinMarketCap is snapping up a firm building technology said to provide a “true price” for cryptocurrencies. CoinMarketCap

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Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and others, emerges from stealth, raises $10M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and others, emerges from stealth, raises $10M Series A  —  Bleckwen, a cybersecurity firm developing fraud detection and prevention systems for banks and financial technology companies … Bleckwen, a cybersecurity company developing AI-based fraud detection and prevention systems

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Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019  —  Music streaming services have already delivered a new high of half a trillion (507.7 billion) on-demand streams in the first half of 2019, according to Nielsen’s mid-year Music Report

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TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for a blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business (Leigh Cuen/CoinDesk)

Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for a blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business  —  What started as a $575 million token sale is now a rewards program for watching videos.  —  TaTaTu’s initial coin offering … TaTaTu, after

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