Amazon backs Deliveroo

THE DAILY CRUNCH FRIDAY, MAY 17 2019 By Anthony Ha Amazon leads a big investment in Deliveroo, carriers stop selling location data and Minecraft moves into augmented reality. Here's your Daily Crunch for May 17, 2019. 1. [Amazon leads $575M investment in Deliveroo]( Amazon is taking a slice of Europe’s food delivery market by leading a $575 million investment in Deliveroo. London-based Deliveroo operates in 14 countries, including the U.K., France, Germany and Spain, and — outside of Europe — Singapore, Taiwan, Australia and the UAE. Across those markets, it claims it works with 80,000 restaurants with a fleet of 60,000 delivery people and 2,500 permanent employees. 2. [A year after outcry, carriers are finally stopping sale of location data, letters to FCC show]( Reports emerged a year ago that all the major cellular carriers in the U.S. were selling location data to third-party companies, which in turn sold them to pretty much anyone willing to pay. New letters published by the FCC show that despite a year of scrutiny and anger, the carriers have only recently put an end to this practice. Sponsored By: Withum [Are you a Tech Founder or Executive? The Technology and Emerging Growth group at Withum is made up of professionals who specialize in working with tech founders and high level executives. Personal tax and consulting services are just the start. Let’s see how we can help you.]( [Learn More…]( 3. [Trump’s Huawei ban ‘wins’ one trade battle, but the US may lose the networking war]( While U.S. government officials celebrate what they must consider to be a win in their battle against the low-cost, high-performance networking vendor Huawei and other Chinese hardware manufacturers, the country is at risk of falling seriously behind in the broader competition. 4. [Apple & Google celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with featured apps, new shortcuts]( Apple celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day by rolling out a practical, accessibility focused collection of new Siri Shortcuts, alongside accessibility focused App Store features and collections. Google did something similar for Android users on Google Play. 5. [Minecraft Earth makes the whole real world your very own blocky realm]( The team at Minecraft is making its biggest leap yet — to a real-world augmented reality game in the vein of Pokémon GO, called Minecraft Earth. 6. [Stack Overflow confirms breach, but customer data said to be unaffected]( "We discovered and investigated the extent of the access and are addressing all known vulnerabilities,” VP of Engineering Mary Ferguson wrote. “We have not identified any breach of customer or user data." 7. [How startups can use Amazon’s SEO best practices to dominate new shopping verticals]( Eli Schwartz argues that retailers in nascent verticals have an opportunity to follow Amazon’s SEO playbook and become the default ranking e-commerce website. (Extra Crunch membership required.) [Get more stories at techcrunch.com ]( Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: - [Executive Assistant at Unison (San Francisco, CA, USA)]( - [Technical Recruiter at Unison (San Francisco, CA, USA)]( - [Master Data Engineer at Capital One (San Francisco, CA, USA)]( - [Technical Lead - Manager at Capital One (San Francisco, CA, USA)]( - [Systems Administrator at Illinois Health and Hospital Association (Naperville, IL, USA)]( [SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD]( [Post your tech jobs]( and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Youtube](  [Instagram](  [Flipboard]( [View this email online in your browser]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms of Service]( | [Unsubscribe]( © 2019 Oath Tech Network. All rights reserved. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107