Wattpad gains strategic investment from Times Bridge to further expand in India | ICE has a huge license plate database targeting immigrants, documents reveal | Automation Hero picks up $14.5 million led by Atomico | Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~60 markets | Periscope cracks on inauthentic behavior including fake hearts, follows, chats and more | AgroStar gets $27M Series C to give more Indian farmers increase crop production with data analytics | Verizon's 5G to launch first in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11 |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 2019
TODAY'S TOP STORIES: | |  | | | | TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Perez  | Wattpad is further expanding into Asia with a new partnership and undisclosed strategic investment from Times Bridge, the global investment arm of the Times Group in India. The deal aims... Read More… | | | | | Zack Whittaker  | Newly released documents reveal Immigration and Customs Enforcement is tracking and targeting immigrants through a massive license plate reader database supplied with data from local police departments — in some... Read More… | | | | | Jordan Crook  | Automation Hero, formerly SalesHero, has secured $14.5 million in new funding led by Atomico, with participation by Baidu Ventures and Cherry Ventures. As part of the deal, Atomico principal Ben... Read More… | | | | | Natasha Lomas  | In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google's popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines it offers per market --... Read More… | | | | | Sarah Perez  | Twitter's video streaming app, Periscope, is cracking down on spam and, specifically, fake engagements. The company says it's updating its policies around how it enforces its anti-spam rules, and is... Read More… | | | | | Catherine Shu  | Indian agriculture tech startup AgroStar announced today that it has raised a $27 million Series C for its platform, which helps farmers increase crop production, manage orders and buy supplies... Read More… | | | | | Matt Burns  | Verizon today announced the launch details of its first standards-based 5G wireless service. Starting on April 11 5G will be available throughout areas of Chicago and Minneapolis. Current subscribers can... Read More… | | | | | Danny Crichton and Arman Tabatabai  | F5 Networks took a dive yesterday after the company announced it was acquiring open-source web server NGINX. While media coverage of the deal was largely positive, the public markets appeared... Read More… | | | | | Romain Dillet  | Email app Spark added collaboration features back in May 2018. And Readdle, the company behind the app, is going one step further with a new feature specifically designed to delegate... Read More… | | | | | Brian Heater  | Roboticists have the strangest pet projects. For Colin Angle, it's vacuuming up lionfish. The iRobot CEO is also the cofounder of RSE (that's Robots in Service of the Environment), a... Read More… | | | | | Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: - Venture Builder for Health Care & Artificial Intelligence at MIT Innovation Initiative (Cambridge, MA, USA)
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