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Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, a free tool that helps businesses easily list products on their Facebook Page, Instagram profile, Stories, or in ads — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, a new e-commerce feature that allows businesses to easily list their products on Facebook and Instagram.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences, accounting for consumer traits like body type, skin tone, location, socioeconomic class, age, and poses — Facebook today announced improvements to the shopping experiences across its platform, including Facebook Shops …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook will limit offices to 25% occupancy, put people on shifts, and require temperature checks and masks when it reopens workplaces in July — - Company plans to put employees on shifts to reduce numbers — Grab-and-go meals, temperature checks, updated shuttles coming| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian ride-hailing company Ola says it is cutting 1,400 jobs, or 35% of its workforce in the country, as revenue dropped by 95% in the last two months — Ola said on Wednesday it is cutting 1,400 jobs in India, or 35% of its workforce in the home market, as the ride-hailing firm works …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 83 with updated safety and privacy settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito mode, DNS-over-HTTPS support, and new dev features — Google today launched Chrome 83 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 83 includes redesigned safety and privacy settings … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments — The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021, executives tell Axios, and it is building out a proprietary first-party data platform.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Productivity tool Notion's free tier gets unlimited notes and blocks — There's never been a better time to check out the collaborative note-taking app — Notion, the workspace and note-taking app, just became much more appealing to individual users. The company said today that people …
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
The SD Association unveils new SD 8.0 spec, with SD Express card speeds reaching 3940 MB/s with PCIe 4.0 support, roughly four times the speed of current cards — As resolutions and file sizes continue to grow, it's important for storage —especially removable storage—to keep up …
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| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Helsinki-based Happeo, which offers intranet, enterprise social network, and collaboration software to companies, raises €10.9M Series A led by INKEF Capital — Today Finnish startup Happeo, an employee communications platform, announces having raised approximately €10.9 million …
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Tweets: @jboxt1, @makiventures, and @eu_startups
| Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asian Review: |
Zoom no longer lets individual users sign up for free in China, reportedly due to regulatory requirements; only paid accounts can host meetings — Company under scrutiny from both US and China as trade tensions flare anew — PALO ALTO, U.S. — California-based videoconferencing company Zoom … | Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Chinese fitness app Keep raises $80M Series E at a $1B valuation led by Jeneration Capital Management — Chinese fitness app Keep has become the country's first sports tech startup to achieve a $1 billion valuation after raising an $80 million Series E funding round led …
Tweets: @ruima
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online, raises $60M led by B Capital; source: startup valued at ~$300M — Khatabook, a startup that is helping small businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept payments online with an app … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan's podcast, which he said had ~190M downloads/month in 2019, will become a Spotify exclusive this year; his YouTube will no longer have full episodes — A massive gain for the platform — Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify.
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| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
Sony says PlayStation Now has 2.2M subscribers and PlayStation Plus has 41M+ subs; Xbox Game Pass had 10M subs and Xbox Live had 90M active users in April — PlayStation Plus has amassed over 41 million subscribers, too — Sony says 2.2 million people are subscribed to PlayStation Now …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @tubetattle, and @taynixster
| The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's diversity, long-term plans for its hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ads business, and more — Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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Android Authority, SlashGear, TechRadar.com, and CNBC
Tweets: @doblezeta, @raju, @reneritchie, @mhbergen, @aprilaser, @jerrycap, @loudmouthjulia, @sundarpichai, and @oliverdarcy
| Brian Merchant / OneZero: |
Google says it won't “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry”, after new Greenpeace report on Big Oil ties — A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley's ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step toward opting out| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Windows task automation startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum, merging its tools with Microsoft's Power Automate — Microsoft today announced that it acquired robotic process automation (RPA) startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum.
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Tweets: @thetechguyravee, @patrickmoorhead, and @gtzi
| Reuters: |
Xiaomi beats estimates with Q1 revenue of $7B, up 13.6% YoY, thanks to sales of its higher-priced 5G models in China as well as growing sales overseas — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Xiaomi Corp reported a 13.6% rise in first-quarter revenue on Wednesday, beating estimates, as the Chinese smartphone maker sold … | New York Times: |
Starship Technologies' fleet of delivery robots helped residents of Milton Keynes, a small city of 270K in UK, with grocery deliveries during the lockdown — Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries.
Tweets: @mit_csail, @dintersmith, @nytimes, and @eringriffith
| Paul Ford / Wired: |
Video chat tools like Zoom do well to emulate workspaces but lack flexibility in creative presentation and miss the subtleties of in-person interactions — Software tools simulate work. They should really let us put on a show. — Did you find yourself, over these last fascinating and upsetting weeks, always on camera?
Tweets: @jaycuthrell
| Chiara Sottile / NBC News: |
Lyft partners with anti-sexual violence organization RAINN to provide free rides to individuals who contact RAINN hotline in select, undisclosed US cities — Ride-hailing company Lyft and the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization …
Tweets: @nbcnews
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