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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Taiwan bars all government agencies from using Zoom for official work due to security concerns, becoming the first national government to impose a ban on Zoom — - Taipei joins SpaceX in halting use of video-conferencing app — Researchers say Zoom routes data via servers in China
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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.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google says G Suite now has over 6M paying businesses, up from 5M in February 2019 — - Google's G Suite, which competes with Microsoft Office 365, has passed 6 million paying customers, according to executive Javier Soltero, who previously worked at Microsoft.
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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| Kaveh Waddell / Consumer Reports: |
In a small experiment, Facebook approved seven scheduled ads with content that violated company rules about COVID-19, indicating flaws in automated ad screening — A CR experiment raises questions about how the social media giant screens ads on its platform
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| 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
| 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.| 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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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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Hong Kong-based Neat, which helps startups and small businesses do cross-border banking online and apply for corporate credit cards, raises $11M Series A — Neat, a Hong Kong-based fintech startup, announced today that it has raised a $11 million Series A to help small businesses do cross-border trade.
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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 … | Dara Kerr / CNET: |
After Lyft quietly changed its paid leave policy for drivers, some say the process for getting sick pay is confusing and arduous — Without a clear paid leave policy, some drivers may still be on the road despite getting infected. … Ben S. stopped driving for Lyft in mid-March.Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Wes Enzinna / The California Sunday Magazine: |
An in-depth look at the impact of Uber on Argentina's taxi drivers and the violence that has ensued since the company's 2016 venture into the country — Since Uber launched in Argentina in 2016, taxi drivers have come out in force, torching ride-share cars, beating drivers, and shaming passengers.
Tweets: @wesenzinna and @reporterdriver
| 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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