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Cosmose, a platform that analyzes foot traffic in physical stores, gets $15 million Series A

Apple alum’s jobs app for India’s workers secures $8 million

Everybody is racing to an IPO — even Laird Hamilton’s young “superfood” company

Walmart+ launches Sept 15, offering same-day delivery, gas discounts and cashierless checkout for $98/yr

Sources: Apple is building ~75M 5G iPhones for later this year, along with two new Apple Watch versions, iPad Air with edge-to-edge screen, and smaller HomePod (Bloomberg)

Walmart unveils its new membership service Walmart+, launching Sept. 15 for $98 per year, will offer free, unlimited same-day delivery, fuel discounts, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Stanford launches Cable TV News Analyzer, a free AI-powered online service for querying the screen time of public figures or specific topics on cable TV news (Thomas Macaulay/The Next Web)

Google quietly updates its AdMob Help Center with iOS 14 information, says it will use Apple's ATT API for triggering the IDFA opt-in notice (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)

US hotel operator MCR Development to buy StayNTouch, a cloud platform for hotels, for $46M, after Trump said StayNTouch's Chinese owners threaten US security (Katy Stech Ferek/Wall Street Journal)

Gillmor Gang: Platforming

Reinvent Technology Partners, a new SPAC formed by Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and hedge fund manager Michael Thompson, have filed for a $600M IPO (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)