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Apple launches an app and a website that provides information and guidance on COVID-19, in partnership with CDC, FEMA, and the Coronavirus Task Force — Tools Offer Up-to-Date Guidance and Information for People Across the US — Apple today released a new screening tool and set of resources …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google to donate $800M+ to fight COVID-19, including $250M in ad grants to WHO, $340M Google Ads credits for SMBs, $200M fund to improve SMBs' access to capital — Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday his company is donating more than $800 million in cash and advertising to help stem …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
CEO memo: Bird is laying off about 30% of its workforce; company says it will provide four weeks of pay and three months of health coverage — Bird is the latest startup hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Bird laid off about 30% of its employees amid the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Instacart workers say they are planning a nationwide strike from Monday after the company failed to offer protections like hazard pay, sanitizer, and paid leave — Instacart shoppers are planning a nationwide mass revolt over the grocery delivery app's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Airbnb will halt all marketing, most hiring, and will likely withhold employee bonuses according to CEO Brian Chesky; employee layoffs possible — Airbnb plans to halt all of its marketing, pause most hiring, and likely withhold employee bonuses as it tries to conserve cash amid … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple to launch several Mac notebooks and desktop computers with its own custom Arm-based processors in 2021; USB4 support will come to Macs in 2022 — Apple plans to launch several Mac notebooks and desktop computers with its own custom designed Arm-based processors in 2021 …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Slack CEO says the company is working on Microsoft Teams integrations for calling features — - It's not clear when the integration will come out. — Slack already has integrations with Microsoft products like OneDrive and Outlook. — Slack, the team collaboration tool …
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| Washington Post: |
Uber, Grubhub drivers and others will receive unemployment checks as part of the CARES Act that, critics say, amounts to a bailout of gig economy companies — Some Uber drivers, Airbnb hosts and other gig-economy workers sidelined as a result of the coronavirus outbreak … | TechCrunch: |
Yelp pauses automatically creating fundraising campaigns with profiles of local businesses after outcry that there is no easy way for businesses to opt out — A fundraising program that Yelp and GoFundMe put in place this week to help local businesses impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Disney-owned digital movie locker service Movies Anywhere is launching its first smart TV app, on LG TVs — Making them the first smart TVs with a native app — Movies Anywhere — the Disney-owned movie locker service that combines your purchased films across digital stores including Apple TV … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft will no longer invest in third-party facial recognition firms, including AnyVision, after the Israeli company was accused of surveilling Palestinians — AnyVision was accused of helping the Israeli government surveil the West Bank — Microsoft says it will no longer invest …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft's agreement to acquire 5G cloud software maker Affirmed Networks valued the startup at about $1.35B — Microsoft Corp.'s agreement to acquire 5G software maker Affirmed Networks Inc. valued the company at about $1.35 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tweets: @pluginfud, @jamesamatthews, and @katie_roof
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook Live gets new features, including an audio-only mode, automatic closed captions, and letting logged-out users watch streams — Automatic closed captioning and an audio-only mode — COVID-19 and its resulting social distancing measures have inspired lots of people to live stream … Sponsor Posts
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