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Operas Africa fintech startup OPay gains 120M from Chinese investors

Yahoo appoints six new board members including Jessica Alba

Join us June 17 for a live discussion on COVID19 contact tracing and safe reopening strategies

Y Combinator president Sam Altman is stepping down amid a series of changes at the accelerator

Food robotics startup Karakuri unveils automated canteen plus 84M investment led by firstminute

Icelands Frumtak Ventures raises its third 57M fund focusing on postseed and Series A

Just Eat Takeaway takes away chairman investigates COO weighs Grubhub sale as meal delivery cools down

Join us June 3 for a contact tracing and exposure notification app development and deployment forum

Deficiencies that broke FCC commenting system in net neutrality fight detailed by GAO

Solid rocket fuel startup Adranos raises 1 million to scale up manufacturing

Verana Health aims to organize and analyze doctors clinical data sets whether patients like it or not

The race to create the perfect home setup service is on as Just Move In raises 5M

Papaya Global to buy Azimo for 150M200M to expand its payroll payments to more markets

Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

Elon Musk says Tesla is open to licensing Autopilot supplying powertrains and batteries to other automakers

Vision Fund startups Fanatics and Coupang unite to sell US sports merch in Korea

FT parent Nikkei confirms it has acquired new media startup Deal Street Asia

Saga is the thinking persons cryptocurrency

Ometria raises 40M C round to automate CRM for retailers

Africas top mobile phone seller Transsion to list in Chinese IPO

ControlUp nabs 100M to monitor and improve desktop computing performance across disparate work environments

Flip a popular chat app for frontline workers raises 33M as it passes 1M users

Productivity startup Time is Ltd raises 56M to be the Google Analytics for company time

Toronto Raptors founder brings Bird scooters to Canada as a platform partner

Apple losses trigger a plunge in US markets

House committee investigating Jan 6 subpoenas Meta YouTube Twitter and Reddit

Tech journalist and Chairman Mom founder Sarah Lacy on the power of being polarizing

Eigen nabs 37M to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and small data

Flip a chat and HR app for frontline workers raises 30M as it passes 1M users

Recent departures hint at turmoil at Quartet Health a mental health startup backed by GV

Founder of auto giant Geely buys Meizu as smartphone demand weakens

Hype hope and money: Your guide to all the EV SPAC investigations going on

Hans Vestberg to take over as Verizons CEO in August

The Dogefather sends his regards

Spoke launches music therapy app for Gen Z raises 15M round led by Ada Ventures

Alchemy raises 80M at a 505M valuation to be the AWS for blockchain

Inkitt books 59M investment wants to turn its datadriven selfpublishing platform into a multimedia powerhouse

Indonesia ecommerce leader Tokopedia raises 11B from Alibaba and SoftBanks Vision Fund

European micromobility startup Reby acquired by PE player House of Lithium for 100M

BlackRock hops on bitcoin bandwagon with new Coinbase tieup

Bob Iger goes from managing Mickey to directing a milk replacement startup as new Perfect Day boardmember

Malta paves the way for a decentralized stock exchange

Volocopter raises 170M now valued at 187B to fuel the first commercial launches of its flying taxi fleet in 2024

Remote work and cloud adoption lands 1Password with 620M Series C now valued at 68B

Coinbase hires Fannie Mae exec Brian Brooks as chief legal officer

Nikola Motor to open preorders for fuel cell pickup truck to compete with Ford Tesla

China Roundup: Y Combinators shortlived China dream

Driving down the cost of preserving genetic material Acorn Biolabs raises 33 million

Hiro Capital puts 23M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData as does Sir Terry Leahy

Builderai raises 100M Series C led by Insight Partners to scale up its software automation