all News of 02/22/19

Vynn Capital Snags Investment From Malaysia’S MAVCAP For Its Maiden Southeast Asia Fund

Vynn Capital , a new entrant to Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem, is gearing up to close its maiden fund after it landed an undisclosed sum from Malaysia Venture Capital Management Bhd ( MAVCAP ) as one of its anchor LPs. Founded by former ...

Nicolas Maduro Has Closed Venezuela’S Border With Brazil To Block Aid

Nicolas Maduro Has Closed Venezuela’s Border With Brazil to Block Aid image (CARACAS, Venezuela) — As a showdown looms over humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro closed off his country’s border with Brazil, vowing on Thursday to block the emergency food and medicine that has rallied his ...

Uber Is Reportedly Close To Making A Tactical Exit From India’S Food Delivery Industry

Uber has said adamantly that it won’t exit India (or any more markets) following a hattrick of retreats from China , Russia and Southeast Asia , but does that include its food delivery business? The answer could well be yes. If media ...

Japan’S Hayabusa 2 Has Landed On An Asteroid, Shot It With A Special Bullet, And Returned To Space

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has just completed the next phase of its multi-part, multi-year mission by shooting a bullet into the asteroid it had been circling and returning to space. Hopefully, the spacecraft has been able to collect samples ...

Baidu’S Video Site IQiyi Adds 37m Subscribers In 2018 Amid Mounting Losses

China’s Baidu, which is often compared to Alphabet’s Google, is showing no signs of slowing down its pace of betting on video content as its core advertising unit feels the squeeze from rivals. The company’s  latest financial ...

The Tennessee Governor Says He Regrets Wearing A Confederate Uniform At His College Frat Party

The Tennessee Governor Says He Regrets Wearing a Confederate Uniform at His College Frat Party image (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee was 17 when he joined the Kappa Alpha fraternity at Auburn University, which every spring held an “Old South” party where he and other members dressed in Confederate uniforms. The ...

The White House Says It Will Keep 200 U.S. Troops In Syria For Now

The White House Says It Will Keep 200 U.S. Troops in Syria for Now image (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration, which abruptly announced in December that it was pulling out of Syria, said Thursday that it will keep 200 U.S. troops in the country for now. “A small peace keeping group of about 200 will remain ...

Major Companies Are Pulling Ads From YouTube Over Pedophile Concerns

Major Companies Are Pulling Ads From YouTube Over Pedophile Concerns image (SAN FRANCISCO) — Several companies, including AT&T and Nestle, are pulling advertisements from YouTube over concerns about inappropriate comments on videos of children. A video from a popular YouTuber and a report from Wired showed that ...

Facebook Removes Its Onavo Surveillance VPN App From Google Play

Facebook removes its Onavo surveillance VPN app from Google Play image Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following TechCrunch’s investigation about Onavo code being used in a Facebook Research app the ...

Watch SpaceX Launch The First Private Lunar Lander Mission

Watch SpaceX Launch the First Private Lunar Lander Mission image SpaceX is launching its first private moon landing mission on Thursday 8:45 pm Eastern time. A Falcon9 rocket will carry an Israeli Beresheet rover that seeks to measure the magnetic field of the moon as the spacecraft lands, according to The New ...

Watch SpaceX Launch The First Private Moon Landing Mission

Calling all lunatics — the first fully private moon landing mission is about to take off from Cape Canaveral. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander is set to take off about an hour from now, at 5:45 Pacific time. ...

Podcasting Startup WaitWhat Raises $4.3m As Interest In Audio Content Explodes

WaitWhat , the digital content production engine behind LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman’s Masters of Scale  podcast, has secured a $4.3 million Series A investment led by Cue Ball Capital and Burda Principal Investments. Launched in ...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Doesn’T Plan To Challenge Trump In A Primary. But He Could Change His Mind

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Doesn’t Plan to Challenge Trump in a Primary. But He Could Change His Mind image WASHINGTON — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that he’s not launching a primary challenge against President Donald Trump unless the president’s political standing within his own party weakens dramatically. Hogan, who was ...

Sunsama’S $10/Month Task Management Calendar Cleans Up Your Online Productivity

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard friends lament how difficult it is to find a decent calendar app. The stock calendar apps are certainly serviceable but there’s so much that they can’t handle in terms of managing ...

Lawmakers Across The Country Propose Outlawing Cashless Businesses

Lawmakers Across the Country Propose Outlawing Cashless Businesses image Pass by Sweetgreen—the popular fast casual salad chain—and you'll see a sign that says NO CASHEW, with the latter two letters conspicuously crossed out. It's a cheeky homage to their no cash policy, a relatively new trend drawing ire from ...

California To Close Data Breach Notification Loopholes Under New Law

California, which has some of the strongest data breach notification laws in the U.S., thinks it can do even better. The golden state’s attorney general Xavier Becerra announced a new bill Thursday that aims to close loopholes in its existing ...

Lime Hires Its First CFO

Lime is hiring Ted Tobiason, former managing director in tech equity capital markets at Morgan Stanley, to serve as its chief financial officer . This comes following Lime’s behemoth $310 million Series D round  earlier this month. Led ...

Stop Limiting Quantum Computing To Speed

William ("Whurley") Hurley Contributor Share on Twitter William Hurley, commonly known as whurley, is an American entrepreneur and the founder of Chaotic Moon Studios, Honest Dollar, and ...

Illinois Cops Turned $850 Into A $20,000 Pension Boost

Illinois Cops Turned $850 Into a $20,000 Pension Boost image Thanks to a one-time bonus added to their final paychecks, cops in one Illinois town were boosting their annual pension payouts by more than $20,000 annually—until a court slammed the loophole shut this week. The magic trick worked like this: For ...

Politicians In Oregon And California Want To Give 16- And 17-Year-Olds The Right To Vote

Politicians in Oregon and California Want To Give 16- and 17-Year-Olds the Right To Vote image An increasing number of state and local politicians have introduced legislation to extend the franchise to those younger than 18. On Tuesday, Oregon State Sen. Shemia Fagan (D–Portland) introduced a bill that would amend the Oregon Constitution to ...