California passes a big privacy bill. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH FRIDAY, JUNE 29 2018 By Anthony Ha Silicon Valley's home state gives the nod to a major online privacy bill, Apple is rebuilding Maps and a new acquisition could deepen Pokémon GO's connection to the real world. Here's your Daily Crunch for June 29, 2018. 1. [California passes landmark data privacy bill]( According to the law, consumers can opt out of allowing their data to be sold, and businesses are not allowed to respond by changing the price or level of service. Companies can, however, offer "financial incentives" for data collection. This is only a state law, but California is a big and populous state, and it's home to many of the Internet giants that have leveraged user data to build their businesses. 2. [Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up]( Maps needs fixing. Apple, it turns out, is aware of this. Sponsored By: Disrupt SF 2018 [Get Your Startup In Front Of 10,000 People Book your Startup Alley package at Disrupt SF and get 3 passes to the conference (that's 1 extra than normal!). Disrupt SF will bring together 10,000 innovators from around the world for 3 full days of startups and tech news. Book your package today and get your startup noticed by today's leading investors.]( [Learn More…]( 3. [Bird has officially raised a whopping $300M as the scooter wars heat up]( This is the second round of funding that Bird has raised over the span of a few months, sending it from a reported $1 billion valuation in May to a $2 billion valuation by the end of June. 4. [Niantic’s latest acquisition lets AR Pokémon hide behind the real world]( Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, has just acquired Matrix Mill, which has been working on a product it calls “Monodepth” — a tool that takes data from a single RGB camera, passes it through a neural network and spits out depth data fast enough to be integrated into a real-time game. 5. [Twitter gets a re-org and new product head]( The changes will see Twitter dividing its business into groups including engineering, product, revenue product, design and research, while also bringing on Kayvon Beykpour, the GM of video and former Periscope CEO, as product head. 6. [Instagram Stories now lets its 400M users add soundtracks]( Thanks to Facebook’s recent deals with record labels, users will be able to choose from thousands of songs from artists including Bruno Mars, Dua Lipa, Calvin Harris and Guns N’ Roses. 7. [Science fiction writer Harlan Ellison is dead]( He was one of my childhood heroes. [Get more stories at techcrunch.com ]( Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: - [Entrepreneurial + Technical Product Manager For Automotive Web Startup at VinAudit.com, Inc. (Kirkland, WA, USA)]( - [Netsuite Software Developer at Design Within Reach Inc. (Stamford, CT, USA)]( - [Director of Product at Better (New York, NY, USA)]( - [Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at WP Media (Anywhere)]( - [SQL DEVELOPER at Earthjustice (San Francisco, CA or Nationwide)]( [SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD]( [Post your tech jobs]( and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Youtube](  [Instagram](  [Flipboard]( [View this email online in your browser]( If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences [click here](. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2018 Oath Tech Network. All rights reserved.   TechCrunch is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25th 2018 we will be introducing a new unified Oath [Terms of Service]( and [Privacy Policy]( which will explain how your data is used and shared. [Learn More](.