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Sources: eBay is in advanced talks to sell its classified ads business to Norway's Adevinta for ~$8B (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: eBay is in advanced talks to sell its classified ads business to Norway’s Adevinta for ~$8B  —  Deal could value eBay unit at roughly $8 billion or more  —  EBay Inc. EBAY -0.89% is in advanced talks to sell its classified-ads business to Norway’s Adevinta AS ADE -0.69% A … Sources:

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Gem, which integrates with LinkedIn to help automate data collection and follow-up correspondence with job candidates, raises $37M Series B led by Greylock (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Gem, which integrates with LinkedIn to help automate data collection and follow-up correspondence with job candidates, raises $37M Series B led by Greylock  —  Steve Bartel is no stranger to building teams.  He joined Dropbox when the company had only two dozen employees, and acted as a hiring manager as it

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Gem, which integrates with LinkedIn to help automate data collection and follow-up correspondence with job candidates, raises $37M Series B led by Greylock (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

{$inline_image} Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Gem, which integrates with LinkedIn to help automate data collection and follow-up correspondence with job candidates, raises $37M Series B led by Greylock  —  Steve Bartel is no stranger to building teams.  He joined Dropbox when the company had only two dozen employees, and acted as a hiring manager as

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TileDB, which aims to simplify data management across industries through its technology that was spun out of MIT and Intel Labs, raises $15M Series A (Rowan Walrath/AmericanInno)

Rowan Walrath / AmericanInno: TileDB, which aims to simplify data management across industries through its technology that was spun out of MIT and Intel Labs, raises $15M Series A  —  TileDB, a startup headquartered in Cambridge that aims to simplify data management across industries, has brought in $15 million in Series A funding. TileDB, which

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Digging Deep Into SD Card Secrets

To some, an SD card is simply an SD card, notable only for the amount of storage it provides as printed on the label. However, just like poets, SD cards contain multitudes. [Jason Gin] was interested as to what made SanDisk’s High Endurance line of microSDXC cards tick, so he set out to investigate. Naturally, customer service

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SMBs make up 70% of the 5,384 companies certified under EU-US Privacy Shield and face the biggest challenges in complying with the decision that struck it down (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)

Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: SMBs make up 70% of the 5,384 companies certified under EU-US Privacy Shield and face the biggest challenges in complying with the decision that struck it down  —  Tech companies across the U.S. are scrambling to figure out how they can remain in compliance with international privacy laws … SMBs make

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Hackaday Links: July 19, 2020

Care to flex your ethical hacker muscles? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, is running its first-ever bug-bounty program. The event is called “Finding Exploits to Thwart Tampering”, or FETT — get it? Bounty hunter? Fett? — and is designed to stress-test security hardware developed through DARPA’s System Security Integration Through

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Teamviewer has agreed to acquire Ubimax, which makes AR software and wearable computing devices, for €136.5M (Arno Schuetze/Reuters)

Arno Schuetze / Reuters: Teamviewer has agreed to acquire Ubimax, which makes AR software and wearable computing devices, for €136.5M  —  FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German software company Teamviewer (TMV.DE) has agreed to acquire peer Ubimax to expand its offering in augmented reality and internet of things, it said on Wednesday. Teamviewer has agreed to acquire

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Caption Health raises $53M Series B for its AI-guided tech that lets health care providers take diagnostic-quality ultrasound scans without specialized training (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)

Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: Caption Health raises $53M Series B for its AI-guided tech that lets health care providers take diagnostic-quality ultrasound scans without specialized training  —  Caption Health, a company that develops artificial intelligence software for health care providers, has raised $53 million in a Series B. Caption Health raises M Series B

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Sources: TikTok halts talks with UK government to build the HQ for its non-China business in London, with British ban on Huawei seen as a factor (Phillip Inman/The Guardian)

Phillip Inman / The Guardian: Sources: TikTok halts talks with UK government to build the HQ for its non-China business in London, with British ban on Huawei seen as a factor  —  Video-sharing app suspends building plans, with British ban on Huawei 5G kit seen as factor  —  The Chinese social media firm TikTok has

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Shanghai's year-old STAR market is now second only to Nasdaq in value of IPOs and secondary listings, attracting 17.3% of total issuance, surpassing Hong Kong (Nikkei Asian Review)

Nikkei Asian Review: Shanghai’s year-old STAR market is now second only to Nasdaq in value of IPOs and secondary listings, attracting 17.3% of total issuance, surpassing Hong Kong  —  Surging debuts on ‘domestic Nasdaq’ lure investors and bolster China’s strategic aims  —  SHANGHAI — Pan Jianwei … Shanghai's year-old STAR market is now second only

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