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    • Briq, a SaaS startup that uses predictive modeling and analytics to offer financial forecasting for construction companies, raises $10M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

    Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Briq, a SaaS startup that uses predictive modeling and analytics to offer financial forecasting for construction companies, raises $10M Series A  —  Briq, which has developed a fintech platform used by the construction industry, has raised a $10 million Series A led by Blackhorn Ventures, the company told Crunchbase

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    • One of the world’s biggest esports teams is trying to raise awareness of mental health issues

    Photo: Riot Games Esports organization Cloud9 and health care company Kaiser Permanente have announced a new initiative focused on increasing awareness about mental health. This initiative will aim to help Cloud9’s players work on their own mental health and leverage Cloud9’s large fan base to shed light on ways to address mental health and reduce

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    One of the world’s biggest esports teams is trying to raise awareness of mental health issues

    {$inline_image} Photo: Riot Games Esports organization Cloud9 and health care company Kaiser Permanente have announced a new initiative focused on increasing awareness about mental health. This initiative will aim to help Cloud9’s players work on their own mental health and leverage Cloud9’s large fan base to shed light on ways to address mental health and

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    • CBInsights: global VC funding in fintech totaled $6.1B in Q1 across 404 deals vs. $7.1B in Q1 2019; US startups raised $3.3B, India topped China with $421M (JD Alois/Crowdfund Insider)

    JD Alois / Crowdfund Insider: CBInsights: global VC funding in fintech totaled $6.1B in Q1 across 404 deals vs. $7.1B in Q1 2019; US startups raised $3.3B, India topped China with $421M  —  – Twitter- Facebook- LinkedIn- Pinterest- Reddit- HackerNews- Telegram- Weibo- Email- Print- Subscribe CBInsights: global VC funding in fintech totaled .1B in Q1

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    • Google removed 813 "creepware" apps from Play Store, found by academics using an algorithm called CreepRank on data from millions of devices via Norton's app (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google removed 813 “creepware” apps from Play Store, found by academics using an algorithm called CreepRank on data from millions of devices via Norton’s app  —  The applications were discovered with a new algorithm called CreepRank, developed by a team of academics. Google removed 813 "creepware" apps from Play Store, found

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    • With large overheads, little revenue, and the need for more on-road testing, self-driving car companies face delays and layoffs during the pandemic (New York Times)

    New York Times: With large overheads, little revenue, and the need for more on-road testing, self-driving car companies face delays and layoffs during the pandemic  —  Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected.  The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult. With large overheads, little revenue, and the need for more on-road testing,

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    • Twitter acquires interactive mobile ad company CrossInstall for an undisclosed sum as Twitter rebuilds its ad server (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)

    Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: Twitter acquires interactive mobile ad company CrossInstall for an undisclosed sum as Twitter rebuilds its ad server  —  Twitter really wants a piece of the performance advertising pie.  —  On Tuesday, Twitter said it has acquired interactive mobile ad company CrossInstall.  No deal price was disclosed. Twitter acquires interactive mobile ad

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    • Yep, Slack is down

    Illustration by Alex Castro / Th No, it’s not just you. Slack is indeed down due to an outage of some sort that appears to have begun happening some time around 7:30PM ET. User-reported issues have spiked on DownDetector.com, and the app is largely inaccessible, with posts not getting marked as read or not going

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    • Democrats introduce bills in House and Senate making it illegal for telcos to shut off internet service during pandemic, a step beyond FCC's voluntary pledge (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

    Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Democrats introduce bills in House and Senate making it illegal for telcos to shut off internet service during pandemic, a step beyond FCC’s voluntary pledge  —  Democrats also pitch $50 monthly discounts with low-income broadband fund.  —  A proposed US law would make it illegal … Democrats introduce bills in

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