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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
On Twitter, Slack CEO discussed some of the dramatic changes Slack has seen over the last few weeks, like quickly adding 9K net new customers; stock up 10%+ — - Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield posted a thread to Twitter telling a story of how wild things have been for Slack this month.
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
AMD confirms someone claimed in December to have “test files” related to current and future graphics products; some files recently posted online were removed — Graphics cards are big business and AMD is one of the leading brands with an estimated 32% share of the discrete desktop market.
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Tweets: @xcloudtimdog and @campuscodi
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Epic Games launches Epic Games Publishing, a label that will cover up to 100% of development costs while game creators retain 100% of IP and creative control — ‘The publishing model we always wanted’ — Fortnite maker Epic Games is getting into publishing in a big way.
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Epic Games Store, Cision, Ars Technica, Forbes, Windows Central, VentureBeat, Kotaku, TechSpot, CCN.com, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Gamasutra, Wccftech, Neowin, IGN, Polygon, USgamer.net, TrueAchievements, and GameSpot
Tweets: @epicgames, @ballmatthew, @samlakermd, and @timsoret
| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: Apple is weighing a delay of the launch of the iPhone 12 by months over fears of low sales and supply chain constraints amid the coronavirus pandemic — US tech giant assesses coronavirus impact on global demand — PALO ALTO/TAIPEI — Apple is preparing the ground to possibly delay …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Huawei rolls out Celia, its multilingual AI assistant for phones outside China, initially on P40 in UK, France, Spain, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia — Huawei has officially announced its own voice-activated virtual assistant outside of China, as the Chinese technology titan continues to push its own versions of Google's services.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Fast, which is building platform-agnostic login and checkout services for e-commerce, raises $20M Series A led by Stripe — Early this morning, Fast, a startup building platform-agnostic login and checkout services, announced that Stripe has led a $20 million investment into its business.
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PYMNTS.com, The Irish Times, Crowdfund Insider, and FinSMEs. Tweets: @julien. Thanks:@dstickler_01
| Airbnb Newsroom: |
Airbnb says it wants to provide free or subsidized housing to 100K healthcare professionals, relief workers, and first responders around the world — - New global initiative will provide free or subsidized housing for healthcare professionals, relief workers, and first responders, typically closer to where they are working| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it has acquired Affirmed Networks, which specializes in fully virtualized, cloud-native networking solutions for telecom operators — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Affirmed Networks, a company that specializes in fully virtualized, cloud-native networking solutions for telecom operators.
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Tweets: @greengart, @yousefkazure, and @dmavrakis
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
A self-reporting COVID-19 symptom app developed by Boston-based startup Zoe had 750k downloads in 24 hours in the UK; Zoe is working to bring the app to the US — One of the big challenges (among many) with the coronavirus pandemic is that overwhelmed health services do not always know how best …
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9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, EURACTIV.com, Pocket-lint, Neowin, and VentureBeat. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Bloomberg: |
US CFTC publishes guidance on the “actual delivery” of a digital asset, which could impact margin loans where no actual cryptocurrencies change hands — - CFTC explains what ‘actual delivery’ of digital currency means — Guidance distinguishes spot trades from futures contracts| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Dremio, which offers a virtualization toolkit to streamline and curate data, raises $70M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to ~$115M — Dremio, which offers tools that help to streamline and curate data, today announced that it has raised $70 million in equity growth financing.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Interviews with 12 Amazon warehouse workers: limited options from Amazon are forcing them to work in crowded warehouses with few essentials, like sanitizers — - A dozen Amazon workers told CNBC they're terrified to go to work during the pandemic, while others have expressed frustration … | Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Several former TripActions employees say ~100 staff members were fired en masse during a Zoom call, without being told the reason behind the meeting beforehand — Hundreds of tech employees are getting laid off amid the coronavirus outbreak — but now it's all happening over Zoom.
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The Information, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Business Journal, and Axios
Tweets: @edbott, @crunchbasenews, @chrisparry, @pluginfud, @issielapowsky, @djadequate, @ahmed, @bizcarson, @moorehn, @issielapowsky, and @caseynewton
| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Qualcomm introduces ultra-low power Bluetooth audio SoCs for wireless earbuds, with support for hybrid active noise cancellation and voice assistants — Qualcomm introduced two new Bluetooth audio systems-on-a-chip that will power upgraded true wireless headphones hitting stores in the coming months.
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The Irish Times, Digital Trends, Qualcomm, International Business Times, The Verge, XDA Developers, SlashGear, and Engadget. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Denver-based Yaguara, which helps e-commerce companies analyze customer data, raises $7.2M seed round led by Foundation Capital — Yaguara, a Denver-based startup that wants to help e-commerce companies understand their customers better to deliver more meaningful experiences, announced a $7.2 million seed investment today.Thanks:@davedonohue
| Reuters: |
Counterpoint: global smartphone sales fell 14% in February as the coronavirus spread in China; China saw sales drop 38% YoY in February — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Global smartphone sales tumbled 14% in February as the coronavirus spread in China and overseas, Counterpoint Research said on Thursday …
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33 US state AGs call on Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Walmart, and Craigslist to take proactive measures to prevent price gouging on products related to COVID-19 — - A group of 33 attorneys general from U.S. states and territories called on Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Walmart and Craigslist … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
WHO partners with Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech companies on #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon to develop software tackling COVID-19 challenges, starting Mar. 26 — - The World Health Organization has partnered with Facebook, Microsoft and several other tech companies for a hackathon to promote …
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CNBC, Devpost, Forbes, KrASIA, Silicon Florist, ZDNet, Amrit Shenava's Newsletter, Android Central, ProgrammableWeb.com, Input, SiliconANGLE, Newsroom | TikTok, Business Insider, TechSpot, The Star Online, Tom's Hardware, BetaNews, and CNET
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @stevekovach, @hacksterio, @drtedros, @dustinpenner25, @fbplatform, @dantley, @robleathern, @michaelmontano, @boztank, and @mosseri. Thanks:@sal19
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