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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sources: Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor that will power Pixel smartphones as soon as next year and future Chromebooks — Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor to power future versions of its Pixel smartphone as soon as next year …
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Amazon fires two tech workers who'd been warned for publicly criticizing its warehouse workplace conditions and were outspoken critics of its climate stance — The workers had been outspoken critics of the e-commerce giant's climate policies and were previously warned about making public comments about its business
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
OnePlus 8 review: has great battery life and solid performance with a 90Hz display, but camera could be better and it lacks wireless charging and an IP rating — The traditional strengths, plus the traditional omissions — Video by Alix Diaconis and Vjeran Pavic
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| CNBC: |
Apple launches a tool that shows how well people are social distancing, using anonymized data from Apple Maps, similar to efforts from Google — - Apple on Tuesday launched a new tool that shows how well people are following social distancing guidelines. — It gathers anonymous data …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Builder, a simple, free DIY tool to help SMBs create short videos — YouTube today is launching a new tool aimed at small businesses who need a simple, low-cost way to create videos, but may not have the creative experience or technical know-how required to do so.
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| Nat Friedman / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub announces private repositories with unlimited collaborators are now free and reduces the price of the existing paid Team plan from $9 to $4 per month — All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone. 🎉 — Until now, if your organization wanted to use GitHub …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts Kit, an Apple Watch app, for one-tap communication with close friends via audio recording, emoji, location sharing, scribble, more — Facebook's internal R&D group has today launched a new app that lets you keep up with your close friends via your Apple Watch.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese government data: iPhone shipments jumped 19% YoY in March to 2.5M, while overall smartphone sales, including Android devices, fell ~22% to 21M — - China's phone market continued decline, official data show — Foxconn production back to normal levels in late March
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| TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google confirm contact tracing update will work on devices running iOS 13 or Android 6+ via Google Play and say only health authorities can access API — Last week, Apple and Google announced a partnership that will soon let users opt-in to a decentralized tracing tool …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After a researcher finds 49 Chrome extensions posing as crypto wallet apps while stealing users' private keys and more, Google removes them from Web Store — The Chrome extensions were mimicking cryptocurrency wallet apps like Ledger, MyEtherWallet, Trezor, Electrum, and others, but … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
A court in France has reportedly given Amazon 24 hours to limit its customers' orders to just “essential” items or face fines of €1M per day — A court in Nanterre, France, has ruled that Amazon should greatly restrict orders in France in the coming weeks.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Cisco says it is launching a $2.5B financing program to let customers defer 95% of payments until 2021, as business operations move online during the pandemic — OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) on Tuesday launched a $2.5 billion financing program that lets … | Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Roku withdraws its full-year 2020 financial outlook, saying it expects Q1 revenue to be slightly higher after streaming hours grew 49% YoY in Q1; stock up 10%+ — - Roku said Monday that it was withdrawing its full-year 2020 financial outlook due to economic uncertainties around the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Nasdaq closed up 3.95% on Tuesday, marking its first rise across four consecutive days since early Feb., as Amazon hit an all time high, closing up 5.28% — Investors will be looking at revenue guidance this earnings season, a big change from the past: Sarat Sethi
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft issues fixes for 15 “critical” and 93 “important” flaws, including four Windows zero-days, three of which it says have been actively exploited — Today is Microsoft's April 2020 Patch Tuesday, and with everything going on, it is going to be particularly stressful …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube Music replaces “Hotlist” with new “Explore” tab, which has a “New albums and singles” section and “Moods & genres” section for finding playlists — From user channels to a reorganized Library, Google's primary music service …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon will cut commission rates for its affiliate program starting April 21; amount of drop dependent on category, rates for grocery products dropping 5% to 1% — - Amazon on Tuesday told members of its affiliates program that it will cut commission rates beginning April 21.
Tweets: @joshsternberg, @kifleswing, and @mattrosoff
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
VC firm Lightspeed raises $4B across three funds: $890M and $1.83B for early and later stage funds, respectively, and a $1.5B fund for doubling down on winners — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Investor Bejul Somaia is used to flying from India to Silicon Valley on a monthly basis.| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Report: in Q1 2020, 62 VC funds raised a total of $21B in the US despite the pandemic crisis and invested $34.2B in 27% fewer deals than a year earlier — The spreading coronavirus pandemic has slammed tech startups, forcing dozens to shed thousands of jobs.
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