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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Zuckerberg: Facebook could get to about half of staff working remotely permanently in 5-10 years and will be the “most forward-leaning company on remote work” — In January, as reports about the spread of a novel coronavirus emerged from China, Mark Zuckerberg began to prepare for a potential pandemic.
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook says it will start allowing many of its 50,000 employees and new recruits to work from home permanently — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the social media giant will start allowing many of its 50,000 employees and new recruits to work from home on a permanent basis …
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon has decided to move its annual Prime Day event to September and has started allowing unlimited nonessential goods shipments to warehouses — E-commerce giant also allows nonessential goods shipments, indication of wider variety of products — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.25% …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces new features for Workplace, including a drop-in video call feature that mirrors Rooms, enhanced tools for Portal, and more — One of the biggest technology takeaways of the last couple of months has been that organizations need confident, wide-ranging digital strategies to stay afloat …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says Workplace has 5M paid users, up from 3M in October 2019, and that interest in Workplace has grown as a result of the pandemic — - Facebook on Thursday announced that its Workplace enterprise software has now reached 5 million paid users, up from 3 million in October.| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Netflix says it will ask customers who have been inactive for a year or more if they want to keep their subscriptions, canceling accounts that take no action — - Netflix will start asking customers who haven't used its platform in the past year if they want to keep their subscriptions.| Candy Cheng / Bloomberg: |
Shopify says it will allow its 5,000 employees to work from home indefinitely — - Canadian e-commerce company switching to ‘digital by default’ — Offices will be closed until end of year and redesigned — Shopify Inc. will allow its 5,000 employees to work from home indefinitely …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook unveils a new Messenger feature to alert users about malicious activity, aimed at preventing scams and unwanted interactions with those under 18 — In an effort to beat back a rise in scams and other unwanted interactions during the pandemic, Facebook today unveiled …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google rolls out new accessibility features for Android, including Assistant-powered, customized buttons called Action Blocks for tasks like playing music — Live Transcribe, Sound Amplifier, and Google Maps also get new updates — For Global Accessibility Awareness Day …
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| Ian Fogg / Opensignal: |
Analysis of ten 5G operators across US, S. Korea, UK, and Australia finds that while Verizon has the fastest 5G speeds, its users see 5G just 0.5% of the time — Understanding the extent to which 5G improves the mobile experience is critical both for consumers considering upgrading to 5G … | Techdirt: |
Despite qualms from some experts, Google and Apple's exposure notification API enables the most privacy-respecting approach to contact tracing in history — Apple and Google have now released their update to their mobile operating systems to include a new capability for COVID-19 exposure notification.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Tinder says it will start testing Global Mode, a new opt-in feature that lets user profiles show up around the world — Meet a foreign cutie — Tinder no longer sees physical closeness as a necessity for dating. The company announced today that it'll soon be testing Global Mode … | Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter: |
ScreenHits launches a streaming video aggregator app that lets users bundle different services like Netflix and Disney+; app subscriptions start at $1.99/month — The app, which allows consumers to manage all their online viewing through a single interface, is betting viewers will pay to simplify their on-demand lives.
Tweets: @jefescott
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ecwid, which sells e-commerce tools directly and via third parties like Square and Wix, raises $42M; Ecwid had raised only about $6.5M since its 2009 founding — In the same week that Facebook announced a redoubled effort to make a bigger mark in e-commerce, one of its long-time partners has closed a large round of funding.| Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: |
Amazon India launches a food delivery service called Amazon Food in select areas of Bengaluru and says it will expand to other cities in a few weeks — Amazon has been luring eateries with competitive commissions as a part of its larger plan to build a comprehensive product portfolio
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify, which has about 4,400 full-time employees in 79 countries, has told its staffers that they can choose to work from home until next year — As the coronavirus-induced lockdown begins to ease in Europe and the U.S. and people begin to confront the realities of returning … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook introduces a tool in India that locks an account, preventing strangers from viewing and downloading pictures, primarily for women — Facebook has rolled out a new safety feature in India that will enable users to easily lock their account so that people they are not friends …
Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
NoSQL cloud database service Couchbase raises $105M Series G led by GPI Capital, bringing its total raised to $251M per Crunchbase — Couchbase. the Santa Clara-based company behind the eponymous NoSQL cloud database service, today announced that it has raised a $105 million all-equity Series G round …
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Court in Netherlands rules that, under GDPR, a woman must delete photos of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook without their parents' permission — A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents' permission, a court in the Netherlands has ruled.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition with custom features for terrain navigation and data encryption, made for rugged use cases like law enforcement — The move highlights how Samsung is pushing its devices into more industry use cases. — Samsung is continuing its push … | Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: |
How the remote school experience, with fewer distractions and less social pressure from peers, makes learning easier for some students — “At home, it seems to be a bit easier to focus on all the work,” said one eighth grader who was struggling in school. “Everything in general is easier.”
Tweets: @nytimes, @pfagell, @donaldclark, @seldo, and @suptenfield
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Clara Analytics raises $25M Series B led by Aspen Capital Group for its AI-powered tools that expedite worker compensation claims — Clara Analytics, a predictive analytics company for workers' compensation claims, today announced that it has raised $25 million.
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| Sam Danley / Food Business News: |
Imperfect Foods, a delivery service focusing on distributing excess and imperfect produce, raises $72M Series C led by Insight Partners — SAN FRANCISCO — Imperfect Foods closed a $72 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partners. — Funds will be used for continued expansion … | Rey Mashayekhi / Fortune: |
Neo-bank Aspiration, which positions itself as socially conscious and sustainable, raises $135M Series C led by Alpha Edison, bringing total funding to $200M+ — Aspiration, the fintech startup that's brought a socially- and environmentally-conscious twist to the burgeoning realm of digital banking …
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