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Vyne raises 155M seed round to grow its merchantfocused open banking solutions

Via is launching an ondemand public transit network in the city of Cupertino

African fintech firm Flutterwave raises 35M partners with Worldpay

Founders Factory and GForce launch Seed program for climatefocused startups

Global Processing Services adds 100M to its coffers to grow its embedded finance and API payments platform

Facebook takes down 16000 groups trading fake reviews after another poke by UKs CMA

Dyson and Gtech answer UK call for ventilator design and production to support COVID19 response

Flush with fresh funds UK eco laundry startup Oxwash spins up growth plans

Update: Google is delaying its deprecation of tracking cookies

Daily Crunch: Elon Musk sets sights on Twitter with unsolicited 43B takeover bid

NCKS grabs 100M to create betterforyou snacks

Hundreds of French academics sign letter asking for safeguards on contact tracing

Africa Roundup: TLcom closes 71M fund Jumo raises 55M AWS partners with Safaricom

Tractable claims 25M to sell damageassessing AIs to more insurance giants

US App Store revenue from nongame apps just topped games for the first time

PQShield raises 20M for its quantumready futureproof cryptographic security solutions

Paack pulls in a 225M Series D led by SoftBank to scale its Ecommerce delivery platform

Japans Society 50 initiative is a roadmap for todays entrepreneurs

Facebook fined 70M for flouting Giphy order made by UK watchdog

The UKs National Health Service is launching an AI lab

iProov snaps up 70M for its facial verification technology already in use by Homeland Security the NHS and others

On Metas regulatory headwinds and adtechs privacy reckoning

Negative How a Navy veteran refused to accept a no to his battery invention

Ban biometric surveillance in public to safeguard rights urge EU bodies

UK High Court blocks compensation suit against Googles Safari workaround

UK closely probing four tech firms over kids privacy code breaches

Apple brings Health Records to iPhone in the UK and Canada

Fractory raises 9M to rethink the manufacturing supply chain for metalworks

The Station: Audi punts on Level 3 Lyft layoffs and Nios 1 billion deal

Element Ventures pulls in 130M to doubledown on the FinTech enterprise trend

Agreena a regenerative farming carbon market raises 47M Seed from Giant VC

For British agency Ascendant growth marketing is much more than a set of tactics

Toothfairys virtual dentist app raises 3M Seed round led by ADA Ventures and Slingshot

How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good

Seraphim Space Camp launches its latest mission with 7 SpaceTech startups

CarbonChain is using AI to determine the emissions profile of the worlds biggest polluters

Rivian shuts down all facilities over COVID19 pandemic concerns

Drone development should focus on social good first says UK report

Astroscale expands into geostationary satellite life extension with new acquisition

Rohlik bags 231M despite the market cooling on food delivery startups

With 50M in fresh funding Allbirds will open new stores in the US UK and Asia

YuLife picks up 120M at an 800M valuation for gamified wellnessfocused life insurance

Deliveroo opens up POS integration for restaurant partners via an API

Student media giant Chegg acquires language learning startup Busuu for 436M

Facebook revamps its business tool lineup following threats to its ad targeting business

Funded by Connect Ventures Purple Dot plans to take on Klarnastyle purchase debt

This Week in Apps: Inapp events hit the App Store TikTok tries Stories Apple reveals new child safety plan

Facebook agrees to do more to tackle scam ads after celebrity defamation lawsuit

MidDay Squares adds some sweet capital to its chocolate gone crazy empire

Elliptic banks 23M to shrink crypto risk eyeing growth in Asia