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Twitter says Silver Lake will invest $1B as it enters into an agreement with Elliott Management to avoid ousting Dorsey and launches a $2B share buyback program — Twitter has reached a deal with investment firms Elliott Management and Silver Lake, the company announced Monday.
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Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, which affected equities, crypto, and options trading until late in the day — Free stock trading pioneer Robinhood is experiencing another major outage, keeping clients on the sidelines of a major day for stocks.
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Apple now says it's OK to use disinfectant wipes to clean “nonporous surfaces of your Apple product, such as the display, keyboard, or other exterior surfaces” — - Apple now says it's OK to use Clorox Disinfecting Wipes and other disinfectants to clean your iPhone and other Apple gadgets.
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Sources: Sequoia is giving away $21M to Finix, a payments startup it recently funded, as it walks away from deal over alleged conflicts of interest with Stripe — In the world of venture capital, where trust between investors and founders is paramount to the success of both …
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Amazon tells its employees in the Bay Area, New York, New Jersey, Seattle/Bellevue, and the Lombardy region/Asti province of Italy to work from home until April — Amazon has told employees in two major markets—New York and New Jersey—to stay home until at least the end … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked code shows iPad Smart Keyboards with a trackpad are coming, alongside sophisticated mouse cursor support including multiple cursors and “right clicking” — According to code seen by 9to5Mac, Apple is set to roll out rich system-wide support for mouse cursors with iOS 14.
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Judge's legal opinion unsealed Friday sided with Amazon in lawsuit over Trump's intervention in the JEDI contract process, saying Amazon's key argument is sound — A legal opinion unsealed Friday indicates what the ruling may be in a high-stakes lawsuit over the Pentagon's JEDI cloud| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it will start selling its cashier-less store tech used in Amazon Go, dubbed Just Walk Out, to other companies — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday is set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less convenience stores to other retailers, the company told Reuters.
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Investigation: popular analytics platform Sensor Tower has used VPN and ad-blocking apps on iOS and Android with 35M+ downloads to quietly collect data on users — Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions …
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Australia's information commissioner sues Facebook for allegedly breaching the privacy of over 300,000 Australians caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal — Facebook alleged to have committed serious breaches with data collected by This is Your Digital Life app used by Cambridge Analytica for political profiling
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Tweets: @marietjeschaake, @carolecadwalla, @carolecadwalla, @mrjamesob, @joshgnosis, @hoofnagle, and @profcarroll
| Nicole Hong / New York Times: |
Alleged Vault 7-leaker Joshua Schulte is convicted on making false statements to FBI and contempt of court, but jury hung on spying charges; mistrial declared — The judge declared a mistrial after jurors were deadlocked on whether Joshua Schulte stole classified documents to give to WikiLeaks.
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Facebook is testing a feature to allow accounts to cross-post Stories from Facebook to Instagram — Facebook's latest colonization of Instagram has begun. Facebook is testing the option to cross-post Stories to Instagram, instead of just vice-versa. Hopefully, that means the two apps … | Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
Chinese government data shows Apple sold under 500,000 iPhones in February as coronavirus outbreak halves demand; total smartphone shipments dropped 54.7% YoY — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) sold fewer than half a million smartphones in China in February, government data showed on Monday …
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Facebook now has a “partly false information” label on the video of Joe Biden posted by White House staff and shared by Trump, following fact checkers' input — - Facebook labeled a video shared by President Trump as “partly false information” after the Joe Biden campaign put the company on blast.| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
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