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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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| 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 …
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| 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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Sources: Airbnb is paying 10%+ interest on the $1B funding it raised on Monday; investors were offered free stock warrants based on a company valuation of $18B — Airbnb's new investors get free warrants based on company valuation of $18 billion — Airbnb Inc. agreed to pay … | 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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| 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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| 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.
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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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| 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.| 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 …
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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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| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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.| 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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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google says G Suite now has over 6M paying businesses, up from 5M in February 2019, and that Google Meet has 25 times more users than it did in January 2020 — - 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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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Book excerpt: Apple's Information Systems & Technology group, which makes internal tools, operates in tumult, hampering its output and alienating contractors — Life in Apple's Information Systems & Technology division reminds some of a sweatshop. An exclusive excerpt from Always Day One …
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MacRumors, The Overspill, Daring Fireball, Bookshop, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Slashdot, 9to5Mac, Michael Tsai, and iMore
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| Karen Gilchrist / CNBC: |
Profile of Min-Liang Tan, the co-founder and CEO of global gaming giant Razer, one of the few companies managing to thrive in the disrupted business landscape — When the #stayathome hashtag emerged on social media last month in response to governments successively announcing coronavirus containment measures, Min-Liang Tan was ready.Thanks:@ryan_browne_
| NBC News: |
Inside the global efforts to build a privacy-conscious COVID-19 tracking app, with experts contributing from the US, UK, Australia, Switzerland, and elsewhere — The hope is that smartphone tracking — combined with widespread testing — can help create a framework for cities to let people resume their lives.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Corporate catering marketplace ezCater, valued at $1.25B last year, lays off more than half of its 750-person workforce — ezCater, a Boston-based corporate catering startup valued last year at $1.25 billion, on Tuesday laid off more than half of its 750-person workforce, the company confirms to Axios.| 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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| David Segal / New York Times: |
Professional video game streamers, already used to isolation, are seeing increased viewership on Twitch and other platforms as COVID-19 forces people inside — Pro video game streamers are used to spending their days in isolation. And a huge new audience is at home to watch them play.
Tweets: @nytimestech and @nytimesbusiness
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Australia-based SafetyCulture, maker of iAuditor app for workplace safety checks, raises $35.5M at an $800M valuation, bringing total raised to over $100M — SafetyCulture, the Australian enterprise software company that manages security and compliance checks at companies around the world …
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