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| Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
Zoom apologizes for security failures, says it has 200M+ DAUs vs. 10M in Dec., and plans to freeze development of new features to focus on security and privacy — Whether you are a global corporation that needs to maintain business continuity, a local government agency working to keep …
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Facebook launches a standalone Messenger app for MacOS and Windows with unlimited, free group video calls, support for Dark Mode, and more — The Facebook Messenger app is available for MacOS and Windows — Today, Facebook is bringing its Messenger app to desktop.
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| New York Times: |
Zoom says it's now disabled a feature that let users covertly access data from some people's LinkedIn profiles, even when they were in the meeting anonymously — After an inquiry from Times reporters, Zoom said it would disable a data-mining feature that could be used to snoop on participants during meetings without their knowledge.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it plans to roll out temperature checks and masks for staff at its US and European warehouses and will use ML to improve social distancing measures — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to roll out temperature checks and face masks for staff at all its U.S …
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| Ben Bergman / dot.LA: |
An inside account of how Bird laid off 406 employees in two minutes via a Zoom webinar; employees say they were locked out of their computers during the meeting — Last Friday morning, 406 Bird employees - who had been working from home for two weeks because of the coronavirus and bleary-eyed …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple now lets some video streaming apps, like Amazon Prime Video, use their own payment methods for in-app purchases on Apple devices, avoiding Apple's 30% cut — Apple Inc. has relaxed a controversial policy that took a 30% cut of payments when video apps on its platform sold TV shows and movies.
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| The Information: |
Sources: YouTube is planning to release Shorts, a rival to TikTok inside YouTube's main app, by the end of the year — YouTube is planning to release a rival to TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, by the end of the year, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
How Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is supporting its clients' transitions from in-person dining to takeout and delivery services — - Toast was valued at almost $5 billion in February, coming off a year of 109% revenue growth.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank-backed online lender Kabbage suspended credit lines to its small business clients in the past week without notice — - Small-business lender Kabbage said to slash credit lines to $0 — Online lender raised $250 million from SoftBank in 2017
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| Jason Aycock / Seeking Alpha: |
Snap says the time users spent calling on its app increased by 50%+ from February to March, and that Snaps between friends reached all-time high in that period — Snapchat (NYSE:SNAP) is reporting increased engagement over the past few weeks amid the COVID-19 pandemic - much of that coming between close friends, it says.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Binance acquires crypto data aggregator CoinMarketCap, source says, for around $300M — - Binance has confirmed acquiring CoinMarketCap after The Block first reported the deal on Tuesday — A source with knowledge of the deal told The Block that the deal is primarily in the form of equity as well as BNB| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel announces its first 10th-gen Comet Lake H-series CPUs for high-end gaming laptops, with clock speeds that can boost past 5.0GHz — Intel's best laptop chips get better — Intel is announcing the next wave of its Core processors, and it's finally bringing out the big guns …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
All-in-one productivity tool Notion, which helps people organize and track their work, raises $50M from Index Ventures and others at a $2B valuation — While many start-ups grapple with the fallout from the pandemic, this San Francisco company raised more cash to survive.
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Some couples, faced with orders to shelter in place to avoid COVID-19, are getting married at home with friends and relatives watching on Zoom — As the coronavirus pandemic continues, socially distanced weddings are moving online — The day — her day — was finally here.
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| Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC: |
Spyware firm NSO Group is marketing software that uses mobile phone data to monitor and predict the spread of COVID-19, says some countries are testing it — A controversial Israeli cyber-security company is marketing software that uses mobile phone data to monitor and predict the spread of the coronavirus.
Tweets: @paul__johnson, @roryireland, @angryukstaffer, @ruskin147, and @kiwanja
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Phantom AI, which is developing advanced driver-assistance systems for cars and trucks, raises $22M Series A led by Celeres Investments — Phantom AI, a startup developing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for cars and trucks, today announced that it has raised $22 million.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Collibra, which provides tools to manage, warehouse, store, and analyze data troves, raises $112.5M at a post-money valuation of $2.3B — GDPR and other data protection and privacy regulations — as well as a significant (and growing) number of data breaches and exposées …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
FCC will vote on a proposal to allow the entire 6 GHz band to be available for unlicensed use, citing the increase in Wi-Fi demand; vote is set for April 23 — The Federal Communications Commission announced a potentially significant step for Wi-Fi today, with plans for an April 23 vote …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
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