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Apple does not expect to meet revenue guidance for March quarter due to constrained iPhone supply and low demand due to store closures amid coronavirus crisis — As the public health response to COVID-19 continues, our thoughts remain with the communities and individuals most deeply affected by the disease …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Jeff Bezos says he is launching the Bezos Earth Fund to fight climate change and committing $10B “to start”, with first grants slated to be issued this summer — The Bezos Earth Fund will begin issuing grants this summer — Today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As the EU debates new rules for its digital economy, including AI regulations, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and others head to Brussels to meet key lawmakers — Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai have journeyed to Brussels as the European Union drafts regulation for A.I. and the digital economy.
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| Financial Times: |
After meeting Zuckerberg on Facebook's proposal for harmful content regulation, commissioner overseeing EU data strategy calls it “not enough” and “too slow” — ‘Not enough’, says Thierry Breton, the EU's digital strategy official — The EU immediately rejected … | Reuters: |
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
An extortion scam is allegedly threatening website operators with junk ad clicks that trigger Google's fraud detection to limit or ban a site's AdSense account — A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google's AdSense program.
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| Susan Fowler / TIME: |
In a book excerpt, Susan Fowler discusses the nightmare she went through after her Uber essay: being followed, people digging through her past, anxiety, more — Susan Fowler is the author of Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is ending its Google Station program in India and other countries, where it provided free Wi-Fi in railway stations, as mobile data prices drop — Google said on Monday that it is winding down its Station program, through which it rolled out free Wi-Fi in more than 400 railway stations …
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| JP Mangalindan / Protocol: |
A look at the recent shifts in HR across the tech industry and the rising role of Chief People Officer, expected to be more strategic than traditional HR heads — The CPO is a coveted role at morale-focused tech companies. But being responsible for a staff, a culture and often a whole lot …
Tweets: @heatherdoshay, @mariabrisao, @dashamaggio, @demianbulwa, and @chiefpplofficer
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
UK's Met Office says it will spend £1.2B for the world's most powerful climate supercomputer, to be capable of forecasting for an area just 1,000 meters across — The UK's weather service, the Met Office, will spend £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) to acquire the world's …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Strategy Analytics: global smart speaker shipments hit 146.9M in 2019, up 70% YoY; Amazon led with 38.5M, down from 49.5M in 2018, followed by Google with 29.8M — In 2019, both Amazon and Google ceded smart speaker market share to Chinese rivals, according to a survey published today by Strategy Analytics.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Redbox launches ad-supported Free Live TV, which offers a curated set of movies and TV shows organized into channels, from brands like TMZ, USA Today, NowThis — Redbox has entered the ad-supported streaming market with the launch of Redbox Free Live TV. The company, best known … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
PullRequest, an on-demand code review startup that's raised ~$12M to date, is buying early-stage startup Moonlight, an online dev hiring platform with ~3K users — PullRequest, a startup that provides code review as a service, announced today that it was buying Moonlight …
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