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    • RiskLens, formerly Cxoware, a cyber risk qualification and management software provider, raises $20.55M Series B led by Paladin Capital (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: RiskLens, formerly Cxoware, a cyber risk qualification and management software provider, raises $20.55M Series B led by Paladin Capital  —  RiskLens (formerly Cxoware), a cyber risk qualification and management software provider, today revealed that it’s raised $20.55 million in series B funding led … RiskLens, formerly Cxoware, a cyber risk qualification

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    • Branch, which gives loans starting at $2 in emerging markets like India and Kenya, raises $170M, partners with Visa to offer virtual pre-paid debit cards (Jake Bright/TechCrunch)

    Jake Bright / TechCrunch: Branch, which gives loans starting at $2 in emerging markets like India and Kenya, raises $170M, partners with Visa to offer virtual pre-paid debit cards  —  The San Francisco-based startup Branch International, which makes small personal loans in emerging markets, has raised $170 million and announced Branch, which gives loans starting

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    • Tencent launches WeGame X, a global version of its games distribution platform WeGame (Ian Boudreau/PCGamesN)

    Ian Boudreau / PCGamesN: Tencent launches WeGame X, a global version of its games distribution platform WeGame  —  Like most people, you may have missed the fact that Chinese gaming giant Tencent launched the global version of its games distribution platform WeGame, called WeGame X, this week. Tencent launches WeGame X, a global version of

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    • Ming-Chi Kuo backs off his earlier claim that a ~16" MacBook Pro with an all-new design would launch this year, says a 31" 6K display still expected in mid-2019 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

    Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Ming-Chi Kuo backs off his earlier claim that a ~16″ MacBook Pro with an all-new design would launch this year, says a 31″ 6K display still expected in mid-2019  —  A few months ago, well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo outlined his expectations for new Apple products in 2019, including a 16″ …

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    • Twitter lowers the number of accounts a user can follow per day from 1,000 to 400 to cut down on spam and bot activity (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter lowers the number of accounts a user can follow per day from 1,000 to 400 to cut down on spam and bot activity  —  Twitter just took another big step to help boot spammers off its platform: it’s cutting the number of accounts Twitter users can follow, from 1,000 per

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    • Snap is officially rolling out a faster version of its Snapchat Android app, which it's been rebuilding since the beginning of 2018 for better performance (Joe Hindy/Android Authority)

    Joe Hindy / Android Authority: Snap is officially rolling out a faster version of its Snapchat Android app, which it’s been rebuilding since the beginning of 2018 for better performance  —  Snapchat announced a big move in late 2017.  It was going to fix all of the problems its Android version had in comparison to

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    • Deep Lens, developer of the VIPER clinical research software suite that includes AI-backed image detection tools, raises $14M Series A led by Northpond Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Deep Lens, developer of the VIPER clinical research software suite that includes AI-backed image detection tools, raises $14M Series A led by Northpond Ventures  —  Deep Lens, a Columbus, Ohio-based startup developing a precision medicine software suite, today announced that it’s raised $14 million … Deep Lens, developer of the VIPER

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    • Once boastful of its plans to rely on 100% renewable energy for new datacenters, Amazon's quietly tamped down those ambitions (Brian Merchant/Gizmodo)

    Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: Once boastful of its plans to rely on 100% renewable energy for new datacenters, Amazon’s quietly tamped down those ambitions  —  In 2014, Amazon announced that it would power its rapidly expanding fleet of data centers with 100 percent renewable energy.  Apple, Facebook, and Google … Once boastful of its plans

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    • Fleetsmith raises $30M Series B led by Menlo Ventures to expand its Apple device management platform beyond the US (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

    Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Fleetsmith raises $30M Series B led by Menlo Ventures to expand its Apple device management platform beyond the US  —  Fleetsmith launched in 2016 with a mission to manage Apple devices in the cloud.  It simplified an IT activity that had previously been complex with help from Apple’s Device Enrollment Plan.

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    • 14 HTC apps that were on the Google Play Store have been unpublished in the last three months, including HTC Mail and HTC Calendar (Scott Scrivens/Android Police)

    Scott Scrivens / Android Police: 14 HTC apps that were on the Google Play Store have been unpublished in the last three months, including HTC Mail and HTC Calendar  —  Back in February, we wrote about the disappearance of the HTC Mail app from the Play Store, but it was quickly restored.  More recently, we

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