“…Google is placing new restrictions on which Android apps can track your location in the background, with a new review process that will check whether an app definitely needs access to the data…”
Intuit confirms that it is buying Credit Karma for $7.1B in cash and stock
Revolut raises $500 million at a $5.5 billion valuation
“…Amazon will open the doors to a 10,000 square-foot Amazon Go Grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighbourhood, less than a mile from the tech giant’s downtown Seattle headquarters. It’ll be stocked with 5,000 different products…”
Global telcos join Alphabet, SoftBank’s flying cellphone antenna lobbying effort
WSJ: Teens Are Deleting Instagrams Almost as Fast as They Post Them (paywall)
FT/LEX: Tier/e-scooters: ride at your own risk…Competition in the sector is as crowded as the cities catered for — expect consolidation (paywall)
FT: Mastercard announces new chief executive (paywall)
DoorDash, Grubhub and others are weighing tie-ups or looking for funding…“…DoorDash Inc., Postmates Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc.’s Eats have each discussed merging in various combinations last year, according to people familiar with those talks. None resulted in a deal…” (paywall)
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop
China Turns to Health-Rating Apps to Control Movements During Coronavirus Outbreak…Tech giants such as Alibaba and Tencent tapped to develop color-coded systems to classify people based on their health conditions and travel history (paywall)
Twitch to top 40 million US viewers next year, forecast says
Google launches the first developer preview of Android 11…Currently, the release schedule calls for monthly developer preview releases until April, followed by three betas and a final release in Q3 2020.
Etsy Accelerates AI Experimentation Thanks to Cloud (Paywall)
How ‘The Mandalorian’ and ILM invisibly reinvented film and TV production
Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time
A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
Almost half of connected medical devices are vulnerable to hackers exploiting BlueKeep
