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Here’s what you need to know today in startup and venture news, updated by the 附近上门 News staff throughout the day to keep you in the know.

Yandex and Uber spin off self-driving venture

and are a self-driving joint venture into a standalone company.

Under terms of the deal, the Russian tech giant is increasing its stake by investing an additional $150 million.

The two companies combined their ride-hailing operations in Russia and areas of Eastern Europe about three years ago. With the autonomous driving unit as a separate company, Yandex will have a 73 percent stake, Uber will have 19 percent, and the balance will be owned by Yandex managers and employees.

Funding Rounds

• Nreal raises $40M for mixed reality: , a China-based mixed reality startup working on portable augmented headsets, just secured $40 million in a Series B round led by . The latest round brings 3-year-old Nreal鈥檚 total raise to more than $70 million.

Other News

• Feds close to launching Google antitrust action: The U.S. Justice Department plans to bring an antitrust case against as soon as this month, according to a in The New York Times.聽 The plans for a filing in the near future reportedly come after Attorney General William Barr overruled career lawyers who said they needed more time to build the case.

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