Author: Tech Support

    • PitchBook and All Raise: US female founders raised $2.88B in 2018 across 482 teams, while average deal size for women-led companies was $5.9M, vs $17.3M for men (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)

    Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune: PitchBook and All Raise: US female founders raised $2.88B in 2018 across 482 teams, while average deal size for women-led companies was $5.9M, vs $17.3M for men  —  In 2018, all female founders put together received $10 billion less in funding than one e-cigarette company, Juul, took in by itself. PitchBook

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    • BitTorrent completed its token sale on Tuesday on the Binance Launchpad platform, netting $7.1M in under 15 minutes with the sale of 50B tokens (Miranda Karanfili/Cointelegraph.com News)

    Miranda Karanfili / Cointelegraph.com News: BitTorrent completed its token sale on Tuesday on the Binance Launchpad platform, netting $7.1M in under 15 minutes with the sale of 50B tokens  —  The BitTorrent token (BTT) sale on the Binance Launchpad platform concluded today Jan. 28, netting $7.1 million dollars with the sale of 50 billion tokens

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    • FaceTime bug lets a caller hear audio or view video from recipient's phone before call has been accepted or rejected; Apple says fix coming later this week (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

    Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: FaceTime bug lets a caller hear audio or view video from recipient’s phone before call has been accepted or rejected; Apple says fix coming later this week  —  A significant bug has been discovered in FaceTime and is currently spreading virally over social media. FaceTime bug lets a caller hear audio

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    • Samsung acquires Tel Aviv-based smartphone camera maker Corephotonics, which sued Apple for patent infringement of its dual aperture tech in 2017, for $155M (Meir Orbach/CTECH)

    Meir Orbach / CTECH: Samsung acquires Tel Aviv-based smartphone camera maker Corephotonics, which sued Apple for patent infringement of its dual aperture tech in 2017, for $155M  —  Calcalist first reported that Samsung was considering the acquisition earlier this month.  The companies signed the deal Sunday Samsung acquires Tel Aviv-based smartphone camera maker Corephotonics, which

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    • Investing and savings startup Acorns now valued at $860M after raising $105M Series E from Comcast Ventures, NBCUniversal, Bain Capital Ventures, and others (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

    Kate Rooney / CNBC: Investing and savings startup Acorns now valued at $860M after raising $105M Series E from Comcast Ventures, NBCUniversal, Bain Capital Ventures, and others  —  – The investing and savings start-up announced a $105 million Series E funding round on Monday, bringing Acorns’ valuation to $860 million. Investing and savings startup Acorns

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    • DOJ: indictment details Huawei's efforts to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile and offer bonuses to staff who stole confidential information from other companies (U.S. Department of Justice)

    U.S. Department of Justice: DOJ: indictment details Huawei’s efforts to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile and offer bonuses to staff who stole confidential information from other companies  —  Huawei Corporate Entities Conspired to Steal Trade Secret Technology and Offered Bonus to Workers who Stole Confidential Information from Companies Around the World DOJ: indictment details Huawei's

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    • Changes to Facebook's site break plugins created by ProPublica and others to track and report on exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers (ProPublica)

    ProPublica: Changes to Facebook’s site break plugins created by ProPublica and others to track and report on exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers  —  Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers.  The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year. Changes

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    • LA partners with on-demand shuttle-based service Via for a pilot program that provides rides to and from three busy public transit stations (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

    Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: LA partners with on-demand shuttle-based service Via for a pilot program that provides rides to and from three busy public transit stations  —  Los Angeles is partnering with on-demand shuttle-based service Via as part of a pilot program that will give people rides to three busy public transit stations. LA partners

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    • DOJ unseals Jan. 16 indictment against Huawei, CFO Meng Wanzhou, affiliated firms; charges include bank and wire fraud, IP theft, conspiring to obstruct justice (Patricia Hurtado/Bloomberg)

    Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg: DOJ unseals Jan. 16 indictment against Huawei, CFO Meng Wanzhou, affiliated firms; charges include bank and wire fraud, IP theft, conspiring to obstruct justice  —  – T-Mobile accused Huawai of theft; CFO linked to sactions case  —  U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against Huawei Technologies Co. … DOJ unseals Jan. 16

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