- Florida becomes first state to enact a DNA privacy law, blocking life, disability, and long-term insurers from accessing genetic data (John Haughey/Washington Examiner)
- Sources: Uber's board of directors has approved a $2.65B acquisition of Postmates in an all-stock deal, expected to be announced as soon as Monday (Bloomberg)
- Netflix's deep catalog of Black programming is the envy of Hollywood and was largely built after a shift in culture following executive departures in 2018 (Ben Smith/New York Times)
- LA-based telehealth veterinary service Airvet raises $14M Series A led by Canvas Ventures (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
- LA-based Scalefast raises $22M Series B to help DTC brands launch e-commerce stores in as little as 15 days, bringing its total raised to $32M (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)
- How Wirecard, a global electronic-payments giant that was once valued at $14B+ and said it processed $140B of transactions a year, fully unraveled in eight days (Paul J. Davies/Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook partners with CBSE, an Indian government education body, to launch a certified curriculum on AR and digital safety for students and teachers in India (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Source: UK to begin phasing out use of Huawei equipment in its 5G network as soon as this year, after report doubted viability of Huawei due to new US sanctions (Bloomberg)
- eMarketer: US consumers to spend $710B online in 2020, up 18% YoY, with ecommerce's share of the retail market growing to a record 14.5% (Dave Lee/Financial Times)
- UK tech companies say operating with remote workers has changed their approach to post-Brexit hiring: executives will be local to HQs, most other roles won't (Nate Lanxon/Bloomberg)
- Amid India-China tensions, Zomato is unable to access $100M of the $150M it secured from Ant Financial in January as the government reviews the latest tranche (Financial Times)
- Sources: amid India-China tensions, Zomato is unable to access $100M of the $150M it secured from Ant Financial in January as the government reviews the funding (Financial Times)
- iCloud Keychain in iOS 14 alerts users about passwords that are easy to guess and those that may have leaked on the web (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
- iCloud Keychain in iOS 14 alerts users about passwords that are easy to guess and those that may have leaked on the web (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
- With macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple seems to have lifted a ban on fun, allowing for an expressiveness in visual design that we haven't seen from it in almost a decade (Michael Flarup/Apply Pixels)
