DoorDash buys Wolt for $8 bln; Facebook releases data on bullying and harassment; and a chat with Kartikeya Bhardwaj of SpoofSense

DoorDash, a US food delivery giant, is acquiring Finland based Wolt in an all-stock deal worth €7 billion, or $8.1 billion, the company said in a press release. The acquisition “will accelerate our product development, bring greater focus to each of our markets and improve the value we provide to consumers, merchants, as well as Dashers and couriers around the world,” Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash said in the release. Wolt was founded in 2014 by Miki Kuusi, who will run DoorDash International and report to Xu. The Finnish company has over 4,000 employees across 23 countries. Facebook, for the first time, disclosed the prevalence of bullying and harassment on its platform, saying such content was seen between 14 and 15 times per every 10,000 views on its site in the third quarter this year, meaning the July to September period. The company said in its quarterly content moderation report that bullying and harassment content was seen between 5 and 6 times per 10,000 views of content on Instagram. Apple must comply with an order to let developers add external payment options, judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled denying the company’s motion for a stay, The Verge reported. Gonzalez had made this ruling in September in a case between Epic Games and Apple related to the iPhone maker’s App Store policies. NASA is pushing back its target date for its next crewed lunar landing to 2025 instead of 2024 as originally planned, the US space agency said in a press release. NASA blames the delay on recent lawsuits over contracts for the agency’s lunar lander, as well as various delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The human lunar return is being planned under a programme called Artemis. NASA hopes to land the first woman and the first person of colour on the Moon this decade while working to figure out sustainable ways to live and work on the lunar surface. The programme involves the Space Launch System, a massive new rocket NASA has been developing for the past decade to send people into deep space and near the Moon in a new crew capsule called Orion, according to The Verge. (3:44) Interview: Kartikeya Bhardwaj, founder of SpoofSense on live face detection technology and beyond Face biometrics is increasingly being adopted as a means of authentication, be it just to mark attendance, or to authorise access to sensitive data. Correspondingly, spoofs are also increasing. In today's interview, Kartikeya Bhardwaj tells Forbes India about his company SpoofSense, which offers a technology to detect if a camera is seeing a real live person or if someone is trying to use an image of another person to trick the camera.  Kartikeya has recently been backed by 100x.VC and has raised some additional angel funding to build out his team. Eventually, SpoofSense, as the product is also called, can be expanded to include voice biometrics as well, he says.