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Six former employees of eBay charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign against a couple they believed was critical of eBay in an online ecommerce newsletter — BOSTON (CBS) - Six former eBay executives and employees are facing federal charges after they allegedly led a cyberstalking campaign …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile has been undergoing a phone and text message outage across the US since around 10am PT — T-Mobile appears to be having problems. — Customers are reporting that they can't make or receive phone calls, although data appears to be unaffected. Some customers say that text messaging is also affected.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram says that, amid concerns it may “shadowban” Black voices, it will review harassment and verification rules, and check for bias in recommendations — Instagram's top executive says the company will review its harassment and verification policies, as well as how the app recommends content …
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Basecamp debuts Hey, an email service for $99/year that tries to reimagine email, blocks tracking pixels, but needs its own client and can't import old email — Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson spent two decades telling anyone who would listen that remote work really could work.
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[Thread] Former Pinterest public policy exec Ifeoma Ozoma shares stories of her time at the company that call into question its declared solidarity with BLM — I shouldn't have to share this story in the year of our Lord, 2020 - but here we are. I'm an alum of Yale, Google, FB, in the WaPo Tech 202 Network, etc...and recently decided to leave @Pinterest, which just declared ‘solidarity with BLM.’ What a joke. 🙃1/ #BelieveBlackWomen
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says its App Store facilitated $519B in commerce globally in 2019, citing a study from Analysis Group — Amid increasing antitrust scrutiny by U.S. regulators, Apple announced an update on its App Store ecosystem. While the company normally shares some App Store metrics during its WWDC keynote …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Epic Games, which owns Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and Houseparty, is close to raising $750M at a ~$17B valuation, with investors including T. Rowe, KKR — - Epic owns Fortnite video game, Unreal Engine and Houseparty — T. Rowe, KKR, Baillie Gifford to participate in round| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Cameo launches Cameo Live, where people can, instead of a prerecorded shoutout, book a 10-minute Zoom call with celebrities — Jeremy Piven charges $15K for 10 minutes — Cameo has a new way for fans to interact with celebrities: Zoom calls. The company launched a video call option over the weekend …
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Tweets: @chrismlacy, @avtarramsingh, @appleparody_usa, @marshacollier, and @katienotopoulos
| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Dozens of Tunisian, Syrian, and Palestinian activists and journalists say their Facebook accounts have been deactivated recently on the pretext of terrorism — “Facebook doesn't care. It closes our accounts on the pretext of terrorism. We are against terrorism and violence," one journalist said.
Tweets: @blackamazon, @oliviasolon, @sivavaid, @evan_greer, @aprilaser, and @oliviasolon
| Reuters: |
US government will amend its prohibitions on US companies doing business with China's Huawei to let them work together on standards for 5G networks — (Reuters) - The United States will amend its prohibitions on U.S. companies doing business with China's Huawei [HWT.UL] …
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Tweets: @chadbown, @wonkvj, and @commercegov
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WhatsApp says it is rolling out a payments service for its users in Brazil to send and receive money and make purchases from local businesses — WhatsApp said on Monday it has started to roll out a payments service to its users in Brazil in a move that it described was aimed at helping businesses accept digital money.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers find a developer running multiple dating services left 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more exposed in AWS buckets — 3somes, Gay Daddy Bear, and Herpes Dating are among the nine services that leaked the data of hundreds of thousands of users. — It's painfully common for data to be exposed online.| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A lawyer for Amazon says Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before a House antitrust investigation, after resisting earlier requests — Lawmakers had requested that he testify as part of their antitrust investigation into the big tech companies. — WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive …
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