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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will not host an in-person I/O event this year, due to coronavirus fears, and will instead offer a series of online events — Following a string of other tech cancellations in recent days, Google just announced that it will not host an in-person I/O 2020 over coronavirus concerns.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
Twitter says it strongly encourages its 4,800+ employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus, the first major US company to do so — Twitter on Monday became the first major U.S. corporation to strongly encourage its employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood says recent outages were caused by an “unprecedented load” on its system, will waive Gold customers' fee for 3 months, ~$15, as initial compensation — It wasn't the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood's massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks.
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Robinhood again suffered a “major outage” on Tuesday, after saying issues were resolved on Monday, and will reach out to users about compensation “case by case” — - Robinhood saw a second day of glitches that kept clients from trading as markets rebounded.
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CNBC, PYMNTS.com, Quartz, New York Times, Business Insider, Crowdfund Insider, Crunchbase News, The Verge, KnowTechie, Mashable, Business Insider, and IT Management
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| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
Let's Encrypt discovers a bug in its Certification Authority Authorization code, meaning affected users need to manually force-renew certs to avoid downtime — Let's Encrypt users will need to manually force-renew once to avoid downtime. — On Leap Day, Let's Encrypt announced …
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Let's Encrypt Community …, Let's Encrypt Community …, ZDNet, InfoQ, BleepingComputer, Wordfence, Threatpost, The Mac Observer, and Neowin
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Legal tech startup Atrium is shutting down, laying off 100+ employees; CEO Justin Kan says Atrium failed to be more efficient than a traditional law firm — Justin Kan's hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium is shutting down today after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple is working on six products with mini-LED tech including an iMac Pro refresh for Q4 '20, a 7.9" iPad mini coming in 2020, and a 14.1" MacBook Pro — Apple has six mini-LED products in the works that are set to debut in 2020 and 2021, and production is not expected to be delayed by the coronavirus …
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Tweets: @uptowngarrett, @themetris, @jsnell, and @pwthornton
| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
In an email to staff, Amazon says an employee at its Seattle headquarters has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the affected employee remains in quarantine — An Amazon employee at the company's Seattle headquarters has tested positive for the novel coronavirus spreading across the country …
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| Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: |
Uber sold Uber Eats in India to Zomato for $206M, instead of $350M as previously reported, in return for a 9.99% stake, lowering Zomato's ~$3B valuation — Ride-hailing major Uber Inc sold its India food delivery business to larger rival Zomato for $206 million in return for a 9.99% stake, regulatory filings by the US-based firm show.| Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
India's Supreme Court strikes down central bank's two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country — - RBI banned banking services for digital currencies in 2018 — Start ups, exchanges, industry body challenged RBI's directive — India's Supreme Court struck …
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CoinDesk, The Economic Times, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Next Web, Reuters, Crypto Briefing, BeInCrypto, India Today, and NewsBTC
| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook plans to use digital versions of government-backed currencies along with its Libra token for its Calibra wallet when it is launched in October — Facebook is scaling back its ambitious plan to upend the global financial system with a new digital currency.
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Bloomberg, Input, Gizmodo, The Block, Ars Technica, Cointelegraph, The Overspill, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, The Verge, BBC, CNET, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
WhatsApp says a dark mode will become available for iOS and Android users today, after months of testing, on by default for users with system dark mode enabled — Facebook finally says hello to darkness — WhatsApp is finally getting a new dark mode on iOS and Android today.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Hulu makes its live TV service available on the PS4, following Sony's decision to shut down their PlayStation Vue service in January — More live TV options come to Sony's gaming console — Hulu is bringing its live TV service, which is separate from its standalone on-demand streaming app … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Eden buys Managed by Q, a workplace management competitor, from WeWork for $25M cash, after WeWork bought Q for $220M last year — Managed by Q co-founder Dan Teran had a plan. After selling his office management company to WeWork last year for a tidy $220 million … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
A look at some ways people in China are using AI and machine learning algorithms to detect the spread of COVID-19, predict survival rates for patients, and more — The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is a fluid situation changing by the day, and even by the hour.| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it will speed up same-day delivery for Prime members in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Orlando, and Dallas thanks to newly built smaller warehouses — Amazon today unveiled its latest initiative to speed up delivery times on millions of items for its growing cadre of Prime members.
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The Amazon Blog, Business Insider, Reuters, SlashGear, TechSpot, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, MSPoweruser, CNET, ZDNet, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @libertyrpf
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q1 revenue of $6.9B, down 8% YoY, missing analyst expectations of $7.21B, on weak compute revenue of $3B, down ~16% YoY; stock down ~5% after hours — - Company maintains its fiscal year 2020 profit forecast — Quarterly revenue fell 8% to $6.95 billion from a year earlier
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
AngelList data shows that having a top-10 VC investor in the seed round had a negative effect on a startup's chances to raise a follow-on round in 2017 and 2018 — One of the big, on-going debates in VC and founder circles concerns whether to accept money from top-tier, later-stage venture capitalists during a seed round.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
iPrice, which helps comparison shoppers in SE Asia by aggregating prices from ecommerce platforms, raises $10M Series B, bringing its total raised to ~$19.8M — iPrice Group, which helps comparison shoppers in Southeast Asia by pulling together prices from different e-commerce platforms … Sponsor Posts
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