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Sources: Tencent has partnered with three Indian banks to enter the country's payments market with WeChat Pay, to be launched by the end of May or June (Jai Vardhan/Entrackr)

Jai Vardhan / Entrackr: Sources: Tencent has partnered with three Indian banks to enter the country’s payments market with WeChat Pay, to be launched by the end of May or June  —  Ever since its launch in April 2016, Unified Payment Interface (UPI) has been growing quickly and reached a milestone of Rs 1 trillion

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Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, raises $27.5M Series B, says its app now reaches 475,000+ families in 50+ countries (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)

Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune: Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, raises $27.5M Series B, says its app now reaches 475,000+ families in 50+ countries  —  When Jeff Immelt was running GE, he noticed that the company, like many, struggled with attrition. Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered

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Sources: Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt is being valued at around $740M following its $182.5M Series A (Isabel Woodford/The Block)

Isabel Woodford / The Block: Sources: Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt is being valued at around $740M following its $182.5M Series A  —  Bakkt, ICE’s yet-to-launch crypto exchange, is being valued at around $740 million following a recent Series A round of funding, sources close to the project tell The Block. Sources: Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt

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Intel confirms it will not develop new Compute Card products (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware: Intel confirms it will not develop new Compute Card products  —  Intel will not develop new Compute Cards, the company has confirmed to Tom’s Hardware.  Compute Cards were Intel’s vision of modular computing that would allow customers to continually update point of sale systems, all-in-one desktops, laptops and other

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4,000 art auction houses are putting their sales records on the blockchain

A recent merger between a blockchain-based art registry and an international auction house sales database will see sales records from over 4,000 auction houses put on the blockchain. The art registry, Artory, has purchased Auction Club, a currently privatized database that contains information from over 4,000 international auction house sales, the Art Newspaper reports. The

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Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%, while mobile time-spent in the US rose from 21% to 24% YoY (Monojoy Bhattacharjee/What's New in …)

Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What’s New in Publishing: Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook’s 8.4%, while mobile time-spent in the US rose from 21% to 24% YoY  —  Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen’s Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.

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