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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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Twitter applied its “manipulated media” label for the first time, after a clipped video of Joe Biden was tweeted by a White House official, retweeted by Trump — It's the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
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.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
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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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
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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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, affecting equities, crypto, and options trading, amid COVID-19 uncertainty — 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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Leaked iOS 14 code shows Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 will include an “Infograph Pro” watch face with tachymeter, Schooltime mode for kids, sleep tracking — 9to5Mac exclusively reported over the weekend that Apple Watch will gain the ability to detect blood oxygen saturation …
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| 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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| 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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Misinformation about coronavirus persists on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, despite the companies' efforts to stop misleading posts by working with health orgs — Secret labs. Magic cures. Government plots. Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information …
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
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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| 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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| 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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