Ann-Marie Alcntara / Wall Street Journal:After Citigroup erroneously sent $900M to lenders using Oracle’s Flexcube, some are calling for simplified business software UX to match…
Josh Ye / South China Morning Post:Behind the success of Tencent’s Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became…
Daniel Victor / New York Times:Obituary of FarmVille, which is closing on Thursday but lives on in its growth-hacking techniques that are being imitated by…
Wall Street Journal:Profile of Tencent, China’s most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259BThe…
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app, raises $28M Series B led…
Bloomberg:Profile of Bolt Financial co-founder Ryan Breslow, who stepped down as CEO of the payments startup last month; sources: he retains a 25% stake worth…
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition, including Clearview AI’s software, by its police departmentMinneapolis voted…
David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg:A Washington, DC federal judge has blocked the DOD from restricting US investments in Xiaomi; restrictions were scheduled to go into effect…
Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch:Tom Blomfield, founder and president of UK digital bank Monzo, is leaving the company at the end of Jan., says he’s been…
samleecole writes from a report via Motherboard: MacOS is generally intended as a desktop operating system, and while it’s a very functional operating system, Apple…
