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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will start blocking state-controlled media outlets from buying ads in the US this summer and is rolling out labels for ads and posts from those outlets — Facebook said Thursday it will begin blocking state-controlled media outlets from buying advertising in the U.S. this summer.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google researchers say hackers backed by China recently targeted the Biden campaign while Iran targeted the Trump campaign, but see “no signs of compromise” — Google security researchers say they've identified efforts by at least two nation state-backed hackers against the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon to license Slack for all employees, while Slack will use underlying tech from AWS's Chime video-calling service to improve its video and audio calls — - Slack will draw on the underlying technology for Amazon Web Services' Chime video-calling service to deliver better video calls for millions of Slack users.
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| Moxie Marlinspike / Signal Blog: |
Messaging app Signal adds face blurring tool on iOS and Android to help hide protesters' identities — Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
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| Tim Cook / Apple: |
In open letter on racism, Tim Cook speaks out on George Floyd's “senseless killing” and says we must commit to creating a better, more just world for everyone — Right now, there is a pain deeply etched in the soul of our nation and in the hearts of millions.
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Report: Apple started a robotics lab in 2012 to reduce human labor needed to assemble products, but abandoned it in 2018 when the robots couldn't match humans — Apple has spent years and millions of dollars on automating its production lines with technology, and it has always reverted to using skilled human beings instead.
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces several personnel changes, including elevating Prabhakar Raghavan to run Search and Assistant, replacing Ben Gomes, who moves to Education — Jerry Dischler becomes the new head of Google Ads, Gomes takes over Google Education, while Google veteran Jen Fitzpatrick takes on engineering.| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
Facebook ran an ad for 5 days from a GOP Congressional candidate that urged people to shoot “looting hoards from Atlanta”; ad removed after journalist inquiry — Facebook is facing an internal revolt over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's handling of a post by Trump that encouraged shooting “looters.”
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon is in early-stage talks to buy a ~5% stake, worth at least $2B, in Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel — NEW DELHI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is in early-stage talks to buy a stake worth at least $2 billion in Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS) …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
DuckDuckGo CEO: US federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions about how to limit Google's search business, as part of antitrust investigations — - Private search engine DuckDuckGo has spoken to states, feds — U.S. federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Business intelligence service ZoomInfo closes up 62% on its first day of trading, after raising $934.5M in its IPO and valuing the company at about $13.4B — - ZoomInfo priced its IPO at $21 per share on Wednesday after raising the range to between $19 and $20.
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| Brad Artziniega / The Official Medium Blog: |
Medium launches Newsletters, to let publications start newsletters on the platform and get replies from readers directly in the publications' inboxes — Four years ago, we launched Letters to help Publications connect with their audience directly in their readers' inboxes.
Tweets: @baxiabhishek, @joshelman, @sarthakgh, @mathewi, @packym, @owillis, @ricmac, and @caseynewton
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Kitty Hawk shuts down original Flyer program, shifts focus to developing Heaviside, a sleeker electric aircraft that can fly and land anywhere autonomously — Kitty Hawk is shutting down its Flyer program, the aviation startup's inaugural moonshot to develop an ultralight electric flying car designed for anyone to use.
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Tweets: @aroetter, @teddyschleifer, and @electricvtol
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
DocuSign reports Q2 revenue of $297M, up 39% YoY, adds 29K enterprise and commercial customers, up 49% YoY; stock up ~4% after hours — “We added more than 10,000 net new direct customers and almost 58,000 self-service customers, bringing our global total of paying customers to nearly 661,000," says DocuSign CEO Dan Springer.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple will require temperature checks for employees returning to headquarters, offer COVID-19 testing, and limit the number of people in confined spaces — - Those returning to Apple Park will be offered nasal swab test — Other changes: elevator limit, masks required, kitchens closed| CNBC: |
Sources: telemedicine company Amwell, formerly American Well, confidentially files for IPO after it raised $194M in May; will seek September offering — - Amwell, formerly known as American Well, announced last month that it raised $194 million to help it keep up with skyrocketing demand.| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Supercuts of violent police behavior during widespread protests have been going viral on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, with one racking up over 45M views — Supercuts of police behavior are receiving enormous numbers of views. — An officer shoving a protester to the ground.
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Tweets: @jordanuhl, @tjack, @caseynewton, @scottwamplerbmd, @readyf0rlt, and @jauzofficial
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
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