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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Mobile jobs app Job Today, which operates in the UK and Spain, expands its $20M Series B from November 2016 with an extra $16M from 14W   —  Accel-backed mobile-first jobs app Job Today has pulled in another $16M — an expansion to its November 2016 $20M Series B round.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Canadian SaaS startup Integrate.ai, which uses AI to help businesses make decisions, raises $30M Series A led by Portag3 Ventures   —  Helping businesses bring more firepower to the fight against AI-fuelled disruptors is the name of the game for Integrate.ai, a Canadian startup that's announcing a $30M Series A today.

Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Online storage service Wasabi, which offers one terabyte of storage for $5/month, raises $68M Series B from Swiss entrepreneur Ernesto Bertarelli and others   —  Chances are you see a story about cloud storage, and you yawn and move on, but Wasabi, a startup from the folks who brought you Carbonite backup, might make you pause.

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal : Sources: Senate Commerce Committee to hold a hearing on privacy practices of tech firms on Sept. 26 with execs from Apple, Twitter, Google, Amazon testifying   —  Hearing is to help inform consumers and to determine where the federal government may need to assert itself, committee chairman says

James Vincent / The Verge : EU Parliament approves controversial internet copyright law, including Articles 11 and 13, dubbed as the “link tax” and “upload filter”   —  Key provisions were amended to reduce potential harm, but critics say vote is ‘catastrophic’  —  The European Parliament …

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : MSRC, the Microsoft unit that receives and handles bug reports, details for first time the internal procedures it uses to prioritize and classify security bugs   —  The Microsoft Security Response Center publishes two documents detailing internal procedures used by its staff to prioritize and classify security bugs.

Lynn La / CNET : OnePlus says its OnePlus 6T flagship will have a fingerprint reader in the display, likely making it the first phone widely available in the US with the feature   —  The upcoming OnePlus 6T will feature an in-display fingerprint reader, the company confirmed to CNET.

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch : Uber hires Coca-Cola veteran Rebecca Messina as its first chief marketing officer   —  Uber announced today that it has hired Coca-Cola veteran Rebecca Messina to serve as its chief marketing officer.  Messina is the first person to hold that title at Uber and will work with its international marketing teams …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Snap's Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan is leaving the company after four years, sources say to start his own investment firm   —  Earlier today, Snap made some waves when it announced that Imran Khan, its chief strategy officer, was stepping down from his role to pursue other opportunities.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Atrium LTS, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan's legal technology services startup, raises $65M from a16z   —  Twitch's Justin Kan returns to pwn law firms  —  Let the computers do the legal busy work so attorneys can focus on complex problem solving for their clients.

The ride-hailing service plans to pick a city in Australia, Japan, India, Brazil or France for its third UberAir test site and its first outside the US.

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : Interview with Google's Group Product Manager on how Android Pie's Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness work to optimize battery life and screen brightness   —  Long before Google announced the Android Pie name, the company was talking up AI in the latest version of its mobile operating system.

Robert Mitchell / Variety : Facebook announces the international rollout of Facebook Watch, which first launched in the US a year ago this month, to be available globally from Thursday   —  Facebook has announced the international rollout of Facebook Watch, its video destination for episodic content, which first launched in the U.S. a year ago this month.

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Acer launches detachable OJO 500 Windows Mixed Reality headset with built-in speakers, shipping November starting at $399   —  Acer announced its latest Windows Mixed Reality headset during a packed press conference at the annual IFA event in Berlin this morning.

Ars Technica : After court order, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson announces plans to sell copies of 3D-printed gun blueprints on branded flash drives in some US states   —  Defense Distributed's Wilson: “I'm happy to become iTunes of 3D guns if I can't be Napster.”