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Crowdsourced data from Candor shows 267 tech companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, while 111, like Zoom and Twitter, are hiring — The coronavirus has taken a toll on the workforce, and now you can see a list of who's hiring, freezing hires, laying off people …
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| Mark Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews: |
Microsoft says that there has been a 775% increase in use of its cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders — This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on its services.
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Cloud Computing Services, ZDNet, The Register, The Verge, and MSPoweruser
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| Financial Times: |
An in-depth look at China's New IP proposal, whose plans are being spearheaded by Richard Li, chief scientist at Futurewei, Huawei's California-based R&D arm — Huawei is developing the technology for a new network. But what does this mean for the rights of users?
Tweets: @christinespolar, @lionelbarber, @drchrisparry, @rafabueno59, @juanof9, @rebeccaarcesati, @dctwining, and @thomasmetzinger
| Financial Times: |
China proposes an internet architecture called New IP to UN's ITU; critics say its top-down design would give governments granular control over the internet — New architecture would enable cutting-edge technologies but western countries fear more control for state-run internet services
Tweets: @martinsfp, @bakerluke, @amir, @jgriffiths, @madhumita29, @tonytassell, @iyervval, @hoofnagle, @hillmanje, and @financialtimes
| Bloomberg: |
Venezuela's mobile infrastructure, which was far from robust before the nation went into lockdown over COVID-19, is straining to handle surging internet traffic — - Data use has marked a new record every day during quarantine — Fuel shortages, tower vandalism strain neglected network
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| Peter White / Deadline: |
Q&A with Jeffrey Katzenberg on launching Quibi on April 6 in the middle of a global pandemic, why Quibi only licenses rather than owns the content, and more — Quibi is one of the most anticipated platform launches of the year and it's also one of the most talked about in Hollywood circles.
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| Hagop Kavafian / Android Police: |
AppBrain: Google Classroom, which wasn't in the top 100 most popular apps in the Play Store at the start of March, surpasses 50M installs, joins top 5 in the US — Because of the coronavirus pandemic, most schools and universities around the world have had to close.
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of DJI, which has a 77% share of the US consumer drone market but is in a precarious spot amid US-China trade war, fraud accusations, COVID-19 pandemic — China's flashiest global brand has a 77% share of America's consumer drone sales. It also has to deal with coronavirus …
Tweets: @dronedj, @valleyhack, @leibelmichael, @valerieinsinna, and @bradstone
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Booz Allen report details 200+ cyber operations by Russia's GRU between 2004 and 2019, shows attack patterns can be predicted based on Russian military doctrine — Booz Allen: Russia uses its GRU military hackers following predictable patterns based on a public military doctrine.| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
UK's NHS says it is working with Microsoft, Google, Palantir, and Faculty AI on a dashboard that shows the spread of the virus and NHS' ability to deal with it — The NHS has confirmed it is teaming up with leading tech firms to ensure critical medical equipment is available to the facilities …
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Technology in the NHS. Tweets: @nhsx, @palantirtech, @rachelcoldicutt, @lisafox202, @danielkorski, @jdr_tech, @benpatrickwill, @nmrperrin, @rowlsmanthorpe, @jenit, @yvesalexandre, @paulias, @peterkwells, @ruskin147, and @halhod
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Internal doc: Amazon is offering higher pay to recruit its warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries amid rising demand and a worker shortage — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is offering higher pay to recruit its own warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries amid rising demand … | 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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M12 News, Digital Trends, AnyVision, NBC News, CNET, IT Management, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser
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