Tech Roundup: Google Dataset Search, Uber Eats India Sale & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

1. Ride-hailing platform Uber sells its Uber Eats operations in India to rival Zomato as it looks to cut losses and in return for a 9.99 percent stake in the startup backed by China's Ant Financial.
2. Apple reportedly dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the U.S. investigation agency FBI raised concerns that doing so would make it difficult to gain evidence against iPhone-using suspects.
3. Documents reveal anti-virus company Avast has sold its users' internet browsing data, through a subsidiary called Jumpshot, to clients like Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, Yelp, Trip Advisor, and McKinsey; Jumpshot data (dubbed "All Clicks Feed") also found tracking user behaviour, clicks, and movement across websites, and comes as Avast's browser plugin, which is designed to warn users of suspicious websites, was found harvesting the browsing data of its customers, leading browser makers Mozilla, Opera, and Google removed Avast's and subsidiary AVG's extensions from their respective browser extension stores last month, and prompting the company to stop sending said browsing data collected by these extensions to Jumpshot. (If anything, the development is yet another sign of how de-anonymization of data can become a greater concern when companies who buy Jumpshot's data could combine it with their own data to learn more about their users.)
4. Amazon's music streaming service Amazon Music Unlimited hits 50 million active users globally, edging close to Apple Music's 60 million users (as of June 2019) and Spotify's 113 million paid subscribers (as of September 2019).
5. ByteDance-owned TikTok signs licensing deal with music rights agency Merlin for indie label music in videos and its upcoming music streaming service, Resso.
6. Electric vehicle maker Tesla overtakes Germany's Volkswagen as the world's second most valuable carmaker behind Japan's Toyota.
7. India zooms past the U.S. to become the second largest smartphone market (after China) with 158 million phones shipping to the country in 2019; Apple emerges as one of the fastest-growing brands driven by local manufacturing of iPhones and aggressive pricing. (Notably, the iPhone 11 was introduced at a lower price point than the last year's iPhone XR.)
8. Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia officially reaches 6 million articles in English roughly 19 years after the website was founded.
9. Google officially debuts Dataset Search, a search service that lets users search for close to 25 million different publicly available data sets, after initial launch in September 2018.
10. Apple's iPad turns 10 years old, kickstarting a tablet market and a third category of device that sits between a smartphone and laptop.
11. Google begins charging law enforcement agencies fees for legal demands of user information such as emails, location tracking information and search queries; backtracks on desktop search redesign that made it hard to distinguish ads from organic results, resulting in a dark pattern that may cause people to inadvertently click on more ads.
12. Defunct social media app Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android; aims to start its partner program to pay creators "soon."