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Apple launches an app and a website that provides information and guidance on COVID-19, in partnership with CDC, FEMA, and the Coronavirus Task Force — Tools Offer Up-to-Date Guidance and Information for People Across the US — Apple today released a new screening tool and set of resources …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Zoom updates its iOS app to remove Facebook SDK after concerns were raised over Zoom's failure to disclose Facebook data sharing in privacy policy — On Friday video-conferencing software Zoom issued an update to its iOS app which stops it sending certain pieces of data to Facebook.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google to donate $800M+ to fight COVID-19, including $250M in ad grants to WHO, $340M Google Ads credits for SMBs, $200M fund to improve SMBs' access to capital — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday his company is donating more than $800 million in cash and advertising to help stem … | Financial Times: |
OneWeb files for bankruptcy after failing to secure new funding amid COVID-19 crisis; sources: OneWeb was in talks to raise ~$2B from SoftBank before the crisis — Start-up that wanted to beam broadband internet from space had raised $3bn from investors — OneWeb, the satellite internet start-up …
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| ProPublica: |
An in-depth look at China's Twitter propaganda machine, which uses over 10K fake Twitter accounts to promote the Chinese government's image abroad — Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese.| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Airbnb will halt all marketing, most hiring, and will likely withhold employee bonuses according to CEO Brian Chesky; employee layoffs possible — Airbnb plans to halt all of its marketing, pause most hiring, and likely withhold employee bonuses as it tries to conserve cash amid …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft will no longer invest in third-party facial recognition firms, including AnyVision, after the Israeli company was accused of surveilling Palestinians — AnyVision was accused of helping the Israeli government surveil the West Bank — Microsoft says it will no longer invest … | Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News: |
Research: the number of coronavirus-related domains has grown to 68K+ this year; coronavirus.com, reportedly owned by GoDaddy, currently forwards to WHO's site — “People have this idea that you shouldn't profit on the tragedy,” one domain seller said. “I think that's kind of a superstition.”| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
In response to plummeting demand, Lyft suggests drivers find additional income by becoming Amazon grocery shoppers, warehouse workers, and delivery drivers — Amazon.com Inc. is teaming up with Lyft Inc. on recruiting the ride-hailing company's drivers to deliver packages and groceries as the pandemic keeps people indoors.
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| Bloomberg: |
Surveillance software companies, like InterGuard and Hubstaff, are seeing an increase in sales, as skeptical employers attempt to keep tabs on remote employees — The email came from the boss. — We're watching you, it told Axos Financial Inc. employees working from home. We're capturing your keystrokes.
Tweets: @tprophet, @kingthor, @polly, @zschneeweiss, and @brightwhite
| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
With 3M+ people filing for unemployment benefits last week, US states are seeing their aging tech systems get overwhelmed and experts say it will only get worse — Laid-off workers struggle to file claims for unemployment benefits; economists say the situation will likely get worse.
Tweets: @nxthompson and @parismartineau
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
CEO memo: Bird is laying off about 30% of its workforce; company says it will provide four weeks of pay and three months of health coverage — Bird is the latest startup hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Bird laid off about 30% of its employees amid the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Washington Post: |
Uber, Grubhub drivers and others will receive unemployment checks as part of the CARES Act that, critics say, amounts to a bailout of gig economy companies — Some Uber drivers, Airbnb hosts and other gig-economy workers sidelined as a result of the coronavirus outbreak … | Bloomberg Law: |
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