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Twitter says Silver Lake will invest $1B as it enters into an agreement with Elliott Management to avoid ousting Dorsey and launches a $2B share buyback program  —  Twitter has reached a deal with investment firms Elliott Management and Silver Lake, the company announced Monday.
Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC:
Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, which affected equities, crypto, and options trading until late in the day  —  Free stock trading pioneer Robinhood is experiencing another major outage, keeping clients on the sidelines of a major day for stocks.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Leaked iOS 14 code shows Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 will include an “Infograph Pro” watch face with tachymeter, Schooltime mode for kids, sleep tracking  —  9to5Mac exclusively reported over the weekend that Apple Watch will gain the ability to detect blood oxygen saturation …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Leaked code shows iPad Smart Keyboards with a trackpad are coming, alongside sophisticated mouse cursor support including multiple cursors and “right clicking”
Todd Haselton / CNBC:
Apple now says it's OK to use disinfectant wipes to clean “nonporous surfaces of your Apple product, such as the display, keyboard, or other exterior surfaces”  —  - Apple now says it's OK to use Clorox Disinfecting Wipes and other disinfectants to clean your iPhone and other Apple gadgets.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon is relaxing its attendance policy and not penalizing warehouse and store workers for missing shifts during March, in response to coronavirus concerns  —  - Amazon has relaxed its attendance policy for employees who “work from an office, store, fulfillment center, delivery station or sort center” …
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Amazon tells its employees in the Bay Area, New York, New Jersey, Seattle/Bellevue, and the Lombardy region/Asti province of Italy to work from home until April  —  Amazon has told employees in two major markets—New York and New Jersey—to stay home until at least the end …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Twitter applied its “manipulated media” label for the first time, after a clipped video of Joe Biden was tweeted by a White House official, retweeted by Trump  —  It's the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Sources: Sequoia is giving away $21M to Finix, a payments startup it recently funded, as it walks away from deal over alleged conflicts of interest with Stripe  —  In the world of venture capital, where trust between investors and founders is paramount to the success of both …
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Amazon says it will start selling its cashier-less store tech used in Amazon Go, dubbed Just Walk Out, to other companies  —  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday is set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less convenience stores to other retailers, the company told Reuters.
New York Times:
Misinformation about coronavirus persists on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, despite the companies' efforts to stop misleading posts by working with health orgs  —  Secret labs.  Magic cures.  Government plots.  Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information …
Aaron Gregg / Washington Post:
Judge's legal opinion unsealed Friday sided with Amazon in lawsuit over Trump's intervention in the JEDI contract process, saying Amazon's key argument is sound  —  A legal opinion unsealed Friday indicates what the ruling may be in a high-stakes lawsuit over the Pentagon's JEDI cloud
Nicole Hong / New York Times:
Alleged Vault 7-leaker Joshua Schulte is convicted on making false statements to FBI and contempt of court, but jury hung on spying charges; mistrial declared  —  The judge declared a mistrial after jurors were deadlocked on whether Joshua Schulte stole classified documents to give to WikiLeaks.
Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Australia's information commissioner sues Facebook for allegedly breaching the privacy of over 300,000 Australians caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal  —  Facebook alleged to have committed serious breaches with data collected by This is Your Digital Life app used by Cambridge Analytica for political profiling

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Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

More News

Ari Levy / CNBC:
Nasdaq closes down 7.29% and S&P 500 down 7.6% extending last week's selloff, with Apple plunging 7.9% and Microsoft dropping 6.78%
VICE:
Sources: Banjo, an AI-powered surveillance insights firm, used a shadow company to push benign-looking Android and iOS apps that secretly scraped social media

Earlier Picks

Brenda Goh / Reuters:
Chinese government data shows Apple sold under 500,000 iPhones in February as coronavirus outbreak halves demand; total smartphone shipments dropped 54.7% YoY
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu:
Argent, a cryptocurrency wallet for controlling digital assets and identity, raises $12M Series A led by Paradigm, a Sequoia Capital-backed fund
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