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Florida-based Finxact, which helps banks upgrade their legacy backend infrastructure and offer modern digital services via a cloud-based platform, raises $30M (Anna Irrera/Reuters) dlvr.it/QxXqPH


A collection of stories from US tech workers about how they organize among themselves with tools like Slack, Signal, and Google Docs, for political activism (The California Sunday Magazine) dlvr.it/QxXqP8


Canada-based 7shifts, which uses AI to forecast staffing needs and help manage the workforces of 250K+ restaurants worldwide, raises $10M Series A (Isabelle Kirkwood/BetaKit) dlvr.it/QxXqLn


Coinbase partners with TurboTax, will allow its customers to upload their transactions, gains, and losses in 2018 to TurboTax Premier to help file crypto taxes (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk) dlvr.it/QxTXjR


Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents' money (Nathan Halverson/Reveal) dlvr.it/QxTXhq


Amazon's Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft (Natasha Singer/New York Times) dlvr.it/QxTXfK


AWS launches WorkLink, a fully managed service for $5 per month per user, that aims to make accessing mobile intranet sites and web apps easier (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) dlvr.it/QxPT20


Research firm says China had 713 VC deals in Q4, down 25% YoY, worth $18.3B total, down 12% YoY, amid cooling valuations and tighter hiring for tech startups (South China Morning Post) dlvr.it/QxPT1p


Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner, who left the dog-walking startup last year, announce $37M funding for their new electric bike-sharing startup Wheels (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch) dlvr.it/QxPT0G


Candy Ventures acquires AR startup Blippar, which went into administration last month after raising $130M+, and will reform it as a new business with same CEO (Shona Ghosh/Business Insider) dlvr.it/QxKLkY


Google launches YouTube TV in 95 new US markets, says it now covers 98% of US households (Chris Welch/The Verge) dlvr.it/QxKLjk


Microsoft is automatically installing NewsGuard, a plug-in that guides users on which news websites can be trusted, on mobile versions of its Edge browser (Jim Waterson/The Guardian) dlvr.it/QxKLfh


Sources: Foxconn is considering producing iPhones in India, a move that could reduce Apple's dependence on China and help lower iPhone prices in India (Wall Street Journal) dlvr.it/QxFBB6


Dutch navigation company TomTom to sell Telematics, its fleet management business, to Japan's Bridgestone for €910M (Toby Sterling/Reuters) dlvr.it/QxFB8z


Sources: Apple is likely to drop LCD displays altogether in its 2020 iPhone lineup in favor of OLED displays, which allow for more flexible handset designs (Takashi Mochizuki/Wall Street Journal) dlvr.it/QxFB6l


Knock, a home trade-in platform started by Trulia veterans, has raised $400M Series B in equity and debt financing led by Foundry Group (Kate Clark/TechCrunch) dlvr.it/Qx9BDt


Profile of Audiomack, which started as a mixtape hosting site and now has a popular free music streaming service with 1.5M users, up from 400K a year ago (Dan Rys/Billboard) dlvr.it/Qx9BDG


AppRiver, a Florida-based cybersecurity company that focuses on email and web protection, agrees to be acquired by email security firm Zix Corporation for $275M (O'Ryan Johnson/CRN) dlvr.it/Qx9BCQ


Voicebot survey estimates that about 77M US adults use voice assistants in their cars at least monthly, compared with 45.7M using them on smart speakers (Rani Molla/Recode) dlvr.it/Qx5ddh


DaDa, a Chinese online tutoring service that helps children aged 4 to 16 learn English from native speakers, raises $255M Series D led by Warburg Pincus (Quynh Nguyen/DealStreetAsia) dlvr.it/Qx5ddZ


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