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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Shortly after Basecamp debuted its email service, HEY, it says its next iOS app update was rejected because Apple wasn't getting its cut of subscription revenue — Right around the time the team at Basecamp was launching their Hey email service to the public on Monday, Zach Waugh …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The distinction of business vs. consumer as a justification for Apple's rejection of HEY from the App Store for not using in-app purchases is flimsy — This statement is paraphrased by Pierce, not a direct quote, but on its surface this business/consumer distinction seems untenable.
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Tweets: @benedictevans, @sam_l_shead, @beirutspring, @film_girl, @dhh, @dhh, @firstadopter, @dhh, @jasonfried, @zachwaugh, and @ashleygullen
| Mark Zuckerberg / USA Today: |
Facebook launches Voting Information Center for accurate election information and tools for voter registration, aiming to help register 4M people via its apps — The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook and Instagram will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday; the feature will roll out to all US users over the next few weeks — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.
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New York Times, Bloomberg, BBC, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, and Associated Press
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| Aaron Holmes / Business Insider: |
Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue — - Google is cracking down on two right-wing outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump administration official says DOJ will propose limiting Section 230 legal protections for online platforms like Facebook and Twitter — The action follows President Trump's executive order seeking to weaken broad immunity enjoyed by Facebook, Twitter and other platforms
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Engadget, New York Times, Washington Post, AppleInsider, CNET, Axios, The Verge, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @joenbc, @charlesarthur, @morningmika, and @reckless
| Bloomberg: |
Apple says its head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith, who joined in 2017, is leaving — - Apple VP of Diversity and Inclusion Smith had joined in 2017 — Company planning $100 million initiative to promote equality — Apple Inc.'s head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith is leaving the iPhone company.
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9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, iMore, AppleInsider, CNET, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @markgurman
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Boston Dynamics says Spot, its quadruped robot, is now available to businesses in the US as part of a developer kit for $74,500 — Boston Dynamics today opened commercial sales of Spot, its quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. Businesses can purchase …
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Tweets: @epro, @cccalum, and @anuraag_saxena
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Uber to sell the software that powers its ride-hailing business, starting with public transit agencies; California Marin county is first to buy Uber's software — - Ride-hailing giant partners with California county officials — Program is Uber's first software sale with a third party| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Unbounce, which builds optimized landing pages for SMBs using automation, raises ~$38.4M led by Crest Rock Partners — Landing page optimization company Unbounce is announcing that it has raised $52 million Canadian (approximately $38.4 million in US dollars).| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details efforts to increase Azure durability amid pandemic by expanding submarine cable bandwidth, server scaling changes, and capacity forecasting — Microsoft has been making lots of under-the-covers changes to how it runs its cloud services, including Azure-based Teams, to meet demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cloud Computing Services, Microsoft, Protocol, Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, TechRadar.com, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @markrussinovich and @maryjofoley
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP, are encouraging big advertisers to pull spending from Facebook — Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and others seek protest of what they say is company's failure to make its platform a less-hostile place
Tweets: @dseetharaman, @scottnover, and @jason_kint
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Barcelona and New York-based Onna, which offers a service that integrates workplace tools, raises $27M Series B led by Atomico — Onna, the “knowledge integration platform” (KIP) that counts Dropbox and Slack as backers, has raised $27 million in Series B funding.
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Tech.eu, EU-Startups, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, and Crunchbase News
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Graphika report details a Russia-based influence campaign, known as Secondary Infektion, that ran over 6 years and 300 sites, but failed to win a large audience — Group known as Secondary Infektion used multiple languages, burner accounts to circumvent attempts to detect it
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Graphika, Wired, NPR, Washington Post, and Graphika
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Upgrade, a digital bank focusing on personal loans and credit cards, raises $40M Series D led by Santander InnoVentures at a $1B valuation — This morning Upgrade, a credit-focused fintech startup, announced that it has raised a $40 million Series D round that the company says gives it a $1 billion valuation.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Uptycs, a SQL-based security analytics startup, raises $30M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total raised to $43M — Structured Query Language-based security analytics firm Uptycs Inc. said today it has raised a new round of $30 million. — The Series B round of funding brings …
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TechCrunch and FinSMEs
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Headless CMS company Contentful raises $80M Series E led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total raised to $158.3M — Headless CMS company Contentful today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series E funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst … | Kevin Truong / VICE: |
iFixit, which has posted repair manuals for ventilators during the pandemic, says Steris Corporation is claiming copyright infringement; iFixit cites fair use — A popular website with a comprehensive database of repair manuals for ventilators and other medical devices has received a letter …
Tweets: @eff, @motherboard, and @vice
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Bose is shutting down its AR program, saying its technology couldn't be commercialized as planned, with current AR apps ceasing to function within 30 days — Bose has become the latest company to throw in the towel on immersive computing, shutting down its ambitious Bose AR program.
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TechSpot, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, and Pocketnow
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
San Francisco's district attorney sues DoorDash for allegedly misclassifying workers as contractors instead of employees despite California's AB5 law — The largest food delivery service in the US is accused of misclassifying workers — DoorDash, the high-flying food delivery startup …
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TechCrunch, Eater SF, Engadget, Mission Local, PYMNTS.com, Business Insider, and LAW.com
Tweets: @chesaboudin, @gigworkersrise, @openfilesite, @davidminpdx, @djlouise, @lorenaad80, and @drtecoyportersr
| Reuters: |
Sources: TikTok's owner ByteDance had revenue of ~$5.64B in the January-March quarter, up 130% YoY — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Beijing-based ByteDance, the privately owned operator of short video app TikTok, booked around 40 billion yuan ($5.64 billion) in revenue for the January-March quarter … | Jennifer Alsever / Marker: |
A look at OATV's Indie.vc, a VC firm that invests modest amounts between $100K to $1M to power more sustainable tech startups and fund more diverse founders — Why a new approach to venture capital is powering more sustainable startups — and funding more diverse founders
Tweets: @casey__allen, @joshuaogundu, @harryalford3, @sirjrg, and @sether
| Megan Molteni / Wired: |
Profile of Public Good Projects, a nonprofit that tracks public health misinformation, as it launches a volunteer-led program to tackle vaccine disinformation — Anti-vaccine messages on social media have tripled since the pandemic began. One public health group wants to teach pro-vaccine Americans to fight fire with fire.
Tweets: @wiredscience and @ugagrady
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Pagaya, which uses AI and big-data analytics to manage institutional money, raises $102M Series D, bringing its total raised to $221.9M — Artificial intelligence financial technology startup Pagaya Technologies Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $102 million in new funding partly to move into new asset classes.
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