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Nectar’s sonar bottle caps could save $50B in stolen booze

OpenFin raises $17 million for its OS for finance

Amazon’s Alexa Fund invests in edtech startups Zoobean and Unruly Studios

SoundCloud buys artist distribution platform Repost Network

ARM halts Huawei relationship following US ban

Xprize names two grand prize winners in $15 million Global Learning Challenge

Self-driving truck startup TuSimple will haul mail for USPS in two-week pilot

Indian PM Narendra Modi’s reelection spells more frustration for US tech giants

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, plans to launch a free music streaming app

India is investigating Google over alleged Android abuse

Immigrant founders, smartphone growth, SEO tactics, SoftBank’s financials, and AR tech

Now at Google, Facebook’s former teen-in-residence launches new social game Emojishot

At this point, SoftBank Group is really just its Vision Fund

Facebook AR/VR product head Hugo Barra is being replaced

Daily Crunch: Amazon backs Deliveroo

Select Bose smart speakers get Google Assistant

The state of the smartphone

Google and Qualcomm launch a dev kit for building Assistant-enabled headphones

Amazon now sells flight tickets in India

Microsoft makes a push for service mesh interoperability

Minecraft Earth makes the whole real world your very own blocky realm