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Bloomberg:Sources: Indonesia's ride-hailing service Gojek purchased a 4.3% stake in local taxi operator PT Blue Bird, for $30M  —  Follow Bloomberg on LINE messenger for all the business news and analysis you need.  —  Indonesia's on-demand services…

Amelia Lucas / CNBC:Sources: US Commerce Department is proposing restrictions requiring foreign companies to obtain licenses in order to make chips for Huawei using US equipment  —  - The Commerce Department is considering requiring chip factories globally…

Chris Welch / The Verge:Tests of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's “Ultra Thin Glass” display show durability is on par with plastic screens; Samsung to offer one-time $119 screen replacement  —  The Z Flip's display scratches as easily as plastic  — …

Corbin Davenport / Android Police:Microsoft's Office app for Android is now generally available, after releasing a public preview in November, but lacks support for tablets and Chromebooks  —  Once upon a time, you could view and edit Google Docs files…

Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times:Research: Chinese VCs' investments into Indian startups broke records in 2019, hitting ~$1.4B in Q4 and spanning 54 funding rounds over 2019, vs. three in 2013  —  Two-thirds of start-ups valued at more than $1bn have at…

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:An extortion scam is allegedly threatening website operators with junk ad clicks that trigger Google's fraud detection to limit or ban a site's AdSense account  —  A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the…

Apple:Apple does not expect to meet revenue guidance for March quarter due to constrained iPhone supply and low demand due to store closures amid coronavirus crisis  —  As the public health response to COVID-19 continues, our thoughts remain with the…

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:PullRequest, an on-demand code review startup that's raised ~$12M to date, is buying early-stage startup Moonlight, an online dev hiring platform with ~3K users  —  PullRequest, a startup that provides code review as a service,…

JP Mangalindan / Protocol:A look at the recent shifts in HR across the tech industry and the rising role of Chief People Officer, expected to be more strategic than traditional HR heads  —  The CPO is a coveted role at morale-focused tech companies.  But…

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:Redbox launches ad-supported Free Live TV, which offers a curated set of movies and TV shows organized into channels, from brands like TMZ, USA Today, NowThis  —  Redbox has entered the ad-supported streaming market with the launch…

Financial Times:After meeting Zuckerberg on Facebook's proposal for harmful content regulation, commissioner overseeing EU data strategy calls it “not enough” and “too slow”  —  ‘Not enough’, says Thierry Breton, the EU's digital strategy…

Jay Peters / The Verge:Jeff Bezos says he is launching the Bezos Earth Fund to fight climate change and committing $10B “to start”, with first grants slated to be issued this summer  —  The Bezos Earth Fund will begin issuing grants this summer  — …

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Strategy Analytics: global smart speaker shipments hit 146.9M in 2019, up 70% YoY; Amazon led with 38.5M, down from 49.5M in 2018, followed by Google with 29.8M  —  In 2019, both Amazon and Google ceded smart speaker market share…

Susan Fowler / TIME:In a book excerpt, Susan Fowler discusses the nightmare she went through after her Uber essay: being followed, people digging through her past, anxiety, more  —  Susan Fowler is the author of Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley…

Scott Pelley / CBS News:A review of Trump's “insane” public allegations about CrowdStrike, hacking, and “the server”, referenced in his phone call that sparked impeachment proceedings  —  The consensus view of the CIA, NSA, FBI and a Senate…