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Bangalore-based Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items, adds $14.2M to its Series B, bringing total for the round to about $44M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:Bangalore-based Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items, adds $14.2M to its Series B, bringing total for the round to about $44M — Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items, said on Friday it has raised an additional $14.2 million …

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Mynt, the fintech arm of Filipino carrier Globe Telecom, says it has raised $175M in multiple tranches, bringing it post-money valuation close to $1B (Miguel Cordon/Tech in Asia)

Miguel Cordon / Tech in Asia:Mynt, the fintech arm of Filipino carrier Globe Telecom, says it has raised $175M in multiple tranches, bringing it post-money valuation close to $1B — The Philippines’ Globe Fintech Innovations (Mynt), the fintech arm of telco major Globe and operator of e-wallet service GCash …

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Elon Musk Talks Zero-Emissions Rockets

Zero-emissions vehicles are great for the environment, and Tesla makes a lot of them. Elon Musk also owns SpaceX, so people are naturally going to lump them together in their minds. When someone sees a rocket launch, it’s obviously not a zero-emission event. As Jerry Lee Lewis says, “Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!”

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As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities (Washington Post)

Washington Post:As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities — Twitter’s decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …

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Elon Mask, Tesla Alien Technology, Tesla’s Unique Business Model — Top CleanTechnica Stories in 2020

It may feel like 2020 just grew a tumor, but we are indeed in a new year. That means it’s time to look back and reflect on the big stories of 2020. Well, the big cleantech stories — sort of. Admittedly, CleanTechnica stretched a bit beyond cleantech several times in 2020, and that was reflected…
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Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub for violating counterfeit policy: Sci-Hub founder says suspension may be related to an ongoing court case in India (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub for violating counterfeit policy: Sci-Hub founder says suspension may be related to an ongoing court case in India — Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a site that offers a free gateway to paywalled research.

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A list of platforms that banned or limited Trump-affiliated accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Apple, Snapchat, TikTok, Shopify, Pinterest, and more (Axios)

Axios:A list of platforms that banned or limited Trump-affiliated accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Apple, Snapchat, TikTok, Shopify, Pinterest, and more — Platforms are rapidly removing Donald Trump’s account or accounts affiliated with pro-Trump violence and conspiracies, like QAnon and #StoptheSteal.

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In an email to Parler, Amazon says it will suspend Parler’s AWS account effective Jan. 10 for failing to comply with its TOS and posing a risk to public safety (John Paczkowski/BuzzFeed News)

John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News:In an email to Parler, Amazon says it will suspend Parler’s AWS account effective Jan. 10 for failing to comply with its TOS and posing a risk to public safety — Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists…
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Apple has suspended Parler from the App Store, saying Parler “has not taken adequate measures” to address threats to people’s safety on its platform (New York Times)

New York Times:Apple has suspended Parler from the App Store, saying Parler “has not taken adequate measures” to address threats to people’s safety on its platform — The companies removed the “free speech” social network from their app stores, limiting its reach just as many conservatives …

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