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| @jack: |
Dorsey says he's moving $1B of his Square equity, ~28% of his wealth, to Start Small LLC to fund COVID-19 relief, to later focus on girls' health and education — I'm moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl's health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: https://docs.google.com/...
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Sources: Airbnb is paying 10%+ interest on the $1B funding it raised on Monday; investors were offered free stock warrants based on an $18B valuation — Airbnb's new investors get free warrants based on company valuation of $18 billion — Airbnb Inc. agreed to pay its new investors interest …
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| Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
Zoom gives updates on its progress with privacy and security: appointing a CISO Council and Advisory Board and bringing on Alex Stamos as an outside advisor — As I mentioned in my message on April 1, Zoom has seen tremendous growth and new use cases emerge over the past few weeks …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will make all of its events digital until July 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic — Build 2021 will likely be a digital event — Microsoft is planning to make all of its internal and external events digital-only until July 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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| New York Times: |
SimilarWeb and Apptopia: amid quarantines, Americans increasingly use online platforms on computers, not smartphones; Nextdoor.com traffic is up 73% from Jan. — Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, with movie theaters closed and no restaurants to dine in, Americans have been spending more of their lives online.| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Study of 225 pieces of COVID-19-related content rated false or misleading: 59% remain up with no warning label on Twitter, 27% on YouTube, and 24% on Facebook — Facebook and YouTube do better, but still leave some misinformation up — More than half of the misinformation …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says Meet, its teleconferencing tool, is adding 2M new users a day and logged 2B minutes of video calls in March with daily usage up 25x from January — As people around the world hunker down in their homes to slow the spread of COVID-19, one technology has emerged as a lifeline to the outside world: video chat.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook's experimental product unit debuts Tuned, an iOS app creating a “private space” for couples, letting them keep a photo diary, exchange notes, and more — Keep a photo diary and check in on each other's moods — First, Facebook launched a dating feature, and now …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Netflix now lets parents remove specific titles and filter shows out based on their ratings, in both the designated kids portal and the general section — Making profile accounts for kids even more specific — Netflix is rolling out a series of new tools that parents can use to filter … | Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Google will require a Virtual A/B partition setup on new Android 11 devices, paving way for simpler and seamless background updates, similar to Chrome OS — With Android 7.0 Nougat, Google introduced a partition scheme designed to speed up software updates.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Valve releases data showing rise in games making $10K during first two weeks after release but analysis suggests ~80% of games earn under $5K during same period — Valve offers a peek behind the sales curtain, telling an incomplete and mixed story. — It has been roughly two years …
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Steam Community, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, MCV/DEVELOP, Wccftech, PC Games Insider, Kotaku, Gamasutra, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, VentureBeat, and Blue's News
Tweets: @brad_glasgow, @kyleorl, @necrosofty, @eevee, @steamworks, @greyalien, @enichan, @winterwolvesg, @eevee, and @withoutaplain
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel, Mozilla, and Creative Commons join the Open COVID Pledge, an effort to temporarily make IP freely available to anyone developing tech to fight COVID-19 — A consortium of organizations including Intel, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have joined the Open COVID Pledge …
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Tweets: @kimzetter and @benadida
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, cuts ~50% of its staff after raising $400M at a $4.9B valuation in February — Last valued at $5 billion, restaurant management platform Toast has joined the sweep of startups laying off employees due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.| Bloomberg: |
EU pushes for a coordinated approach for COVID-19 apps to be drawn up by April 15, with an eye on all 27 nations potentially creating a single app — - European Commission adopts EU-wide recommendations on apps — EU wants common approach to use technology, data effectively| Dan Grover: |
Overview of how apps from Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and others are helping users in China check their exposure, get care, and more during the COVID-19 outbreak — Summary: China's apps played a pivotal role in supporting some of the most effective tactics the country used in fighting Covid-19 …
Tweets: @xuhulk, @theosint, @scholars_stage, @herlifeinpixels, @native_mode, and @dangrover
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
FireEye details how zero-days were exploited worldwide from 2012 to 2019, says it was able to link the use of 55 zero-day exploits to state-sponsored operations — The collection of countries using those secret hacking techniques has expanded far beyond the usual suspects.
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FireEye, SecurityWeek, ComputerWeekly.com, Dark Reading, and Threatpost
| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Microsoft says it is pausing new hires except in some “strategic areas”, citing uncertainty due to the pandemic; sources: the company is still hiring for Azure — - Microsoft is “temporarily pausing recruitment” for some roles amid uncertainty caused by the coronavirus crisis, the company confirmed Tuesday.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Tyto Care, a NYC-based telehealth startup that sells an in-home kit to help doctors remotely diagnose patients, raises $50M in round led by Insight Partners — With social distancing, self isolation, and remote working emerging as the standard behavioral protocol to combat the COVID-19 outbreak …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber for Business expands its corporate Eats delivery feature to more than 20 countries, starting with Brazil, Canada, France, and the UK — Uber for Business, a platform designed for corporate customers, is expanding its food delivery Eats product to more than 20 countries this year …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Sila, which is developing a payments and banking API on top of the Ethereum blockchain, raises $7.7M seed led by Madrona Venture Group and Oregon Venture Fund — Fintech is white hot these days, with major acquisitions and funding rounds galore. It's also a relatively new space … | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Amazon to suspend Amazon Shipping, its delivery service for Amazon Marketplace sellers that was being beta-tested in some US cities, with last pickups on June 5 — - Amazon told sellers on Tuesday that in June it would pause its in-house shipping service that was being beta tested in a few US cities.| Patrick Frater / Variety: |
Report accuses Baidu's streaming site iQiyi of fraud “well before its 2018 IPO”, says it inflated 2019 revenue by ~$1.13B to $1.98B by overstating user numbers — U.S.-based securities analysis firm and activist investor Wolfpack Research has publicly accused Chinese streaming platform iQIYI of fraud.Sponsor Posts
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