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Salesforce says Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO but will still advise Marc Benioff; Gavin Patterson named President and CEO of Salesforce International — Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced that Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce and Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO of the company.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce acquires Vlocity, a provider of cloud and mobile software built atop Salesforce, for $1.33B, reports Q4 revenue of $4.85B, up 35% YoY, vs $4.75B est. — - Keith Block became co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff less than two years ago. — Salesforce announced the $1.33 billion acquisition … | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon opens Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, its first full sized grocery store without cashiers or checkout lines — Amazon Go is going full grocery. — Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” …
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| Reuters: |
Ex-Apple employees and supply chain experts say preparation for new iPhone production, which usually starts early in the year, may be delayed due to COVID-19 — SAN FRANCISCO/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Travel restrictions to China because of the coronavirus have come just as Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) …
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| The Walt Disney Company: |
Bob Chapek has been named CEO of The Walt Disney Company, effective immediately; Bob Iger will serve as executive chairman through 2021 — Robert A. Iger Assumes Role of Executive Chairman through 2021 Mr. Iger Will Direct the Company's Creative Endeavors Mr. Chapek Brings 27 Years …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it will now ban ads that promise to cure or prevent COVID-19, or attempt to “create a sense of urgency” about it — - Facebook is tightening up its rules on ads that reference the coronavirus outbreak. — It is banning ads that mentioned it if they attempt to … | Tom Krisher / NBC Bay Area: |
NTSB says the driver in a 2018 Tesla accident was distracted by a game on his phone and that the NHTSA's hands-off approach to self-driving tech is “misguided” — Just before the crash, the Tesla steered to the left into a paved area between the freeway travel lanes and an exit ramp
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google patches a Chrome zero-day bug found by its Threat Analysis Group, the third actively exploited Chrome zero-day discovered in the past year — This is the third Chrome zero-day discovered being exploited in the wild in the past year. — Google has released today a Chrome update …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Firefox begins rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users to thwart snooping ISPs — US-based Firefox users get encrypted DNS lookups today or within a few weeks. — Firefox will start switching browser users to Cloudflare's encrypted-DNS service today and roll …
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| Rebekah Valentine / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, developer of Asgard's Wrath, for an undisclosed amount; the game studio will remain independent under Oculus Studios — Studio behind Asgard's Wrath to join Oculus Studios and continue VR development — Facebook has acquired Asgard's Wrath developer Sanzaru Games for an undisclosed amount.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Review of Apple's Chinese Store websites shows around 30 of 42 have reopened, most with shortened hours, as the company seeks to rebound from COVID-19's impact — - Company's store website shows 29 of 42 locations are opening — Apple recently pulled March quarter guidance on virus impact
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| TechCrunch: |
Grab raises up to $856M from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and TIS INTEC, a Japanese IT solutions business — Southeast Asian on-demand transport startup Gojek denies that it is involved in talks to merge with Grab but today Grab announced a piece of news that — at the very least … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: as it struggles to achieve a breakthrough, Waymo has doubled its headcount to 1,500 over the past year, mostly focusing on engineers — Alphabet's Waymo still hasn't perfected a self-driving car. So it is throwing more money at the problem. — Waymo nearly doubled its headcount …
Tweets: @amir, @andyjayhawk, and @jessicalessin
| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Bird says it's testing Bird Pay, a feature that lets users buy products from local businesses by scanning a QR code in the Bird app, as it looks to stem losses — Investors want to see profits. Is adding payments to products the solution? — Bird, the scooter company, is pivoting into payments — kind of.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Firefox for Mac and Linux will begin using a newly-developed security sandbox system called RLBox to minimize impact of errors in its largely C/C++ codebase — Firefox's new RLBox sandbox system to ship to Linux users in Firefox 74 and Mac users in Firefox 75.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says a planned server update gone awry caused Nest cameras to go down for over 16 hours — Google Nest is facing an outage this afternoon that sees “camera connectivity impacted.” At the moment, “Nest Cam Live Video” and “Video History” are down, though all other smart home services are operational.
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The Verge, Android Central, Input, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Android Authority. Tweets: @rstephens
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
SambaNova Systems, a startup that provides systems to run AI apps from the datacenter to the edge, raises $250M Series C led by BlackRock — The infrastructure required to handle AI workloads is often as complex as it is sprawling, but a cottage industry of startups has emerged whose focus is developing solutions for end customers.
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SiliconANGLE, Silicon Valley Business …, Wall Street Journal, FinSMEs, and SambaNova. Tweets: @farshchi
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Checkout, a digital payments processing startup, acquires ProcessOut, a startup which helps match e-commerce companies with payment providers — Checkout.com, the quiet London-based payment platform, has acquired its first startup, ProcessOut. Checkout.com surprised everyone last year … | Will Oremus / OneZero : |
In-depth look at the iOS App Store and the potentially anti-competitive ways it restricts consumers and third-parties, an increasing area of regulatory scrutiny — Its App Store has a choke hold on your devices. That may not last much longer. — ou've just dropped $500 on a new iPad Air.
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| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
A county judge in San Diego has ruled that Instacart's classification of its California workers is not compliant with AB5; Instacart says it will appeal — The judge says Instacart is not complying with the new “gig economy” law that requires workers to be considered employees, not independent contractors.
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Tweets: @aprilaser, @lorenasgonzalez, @cfarivar, @saltygulf, and @californialabor
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Comcast acquires Xumo, an ad-supported video streaming service that has about 10M MAUs, source says for over $100M — - Comcast is buying free ad-supported streaming service Xumo for more than $100 million. — Comcast's interest in Xumo stems from its partnerships with smart television manufacturers and streaming technology.
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Variety, Yahoo Finance, AdExchanger, and Light Reading. Tweets: @mattrosoff. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia reports 2019 revenues of €160.4M, up 24% YoY, operating loss of €227.9M, up 34% YoY; active customers reached 6.1M in Q4 — Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia got into the black (by a small amount) on its gross profit vs. fulfillment expenses …
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