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Google will let merchants list their products for free in Shopping search results, as part of an effort to better compete against Amazon in product search — After 8 years, Google will bring free listings into its Shopping results as part of an evolution to better compete against Amazon in product search.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Play Store, after over a year of offering it only outside the store, noting Google puts sideloaded apps at a disadvantage — Epic Games is finally settling its feud — kind of — with Google and putting Fornite onto the Google Play Store, but the studio sounds pretty pissed about it.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue of $5.77B, up 27.6% YoY, vs $5.76B est., global streaming paid net additions of 15.77M, now totaling 182.86M accounts, up 22.8% YoY — - Netflix reported its Q1 2020 earnings after the bell on Tuesday. — Netflix has ranked among analysts' favorite “stay at home” …
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
NPD Group: Nintendo Switch sales doubled YoY in March, while PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sales each grew by over 25%; March hardware spending rose 63% to $461M — Let's say a global pandemic forces you to spend almost all of your time inside at home. Sure, this means you have a chance to catch up on Netflix and reading.
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| Rachel Abrams / New York Times: |
New York's AG says it's investigating Charter Communications' handling of COVID-19, requiring thousands to work in offices; source: 230+ workers tested positive — More than 230 workers at Charter Communications, the cable and internet giant known as Spectrum, have tested positive for Covid-19 …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos launches Sonos Radio, a free streaming radio service preloaded in the Sonos app, with 60K+ stations from multiple partners alongside original programming — Sonos Radio will now be the default service available for the company's speakers — Sonos has always been the neutral manager …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researcher discloses four 0-days affecting an IBM enterprise security tool after IBM refused to accept the bug disclosures through its official program — Zero-days impact the IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM), one of IBM's enterprise security tools. — A security researcher …
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| Snap: |
Snap reports in Q1 DAUs increased 20% YoY to 229M, revenue increased 44% YoY to $462M, time spent watching Discover content rose 35%+; stock up 18%+ after hours — Snap Inc. Announces First Quarter 2020 Financial Results Daily Active Users increased 20% year-over-year to 229 million … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says its blood pressure monitoring app for Galaxy Watch has been approved by a South Korean regulator and will be available in Q3 — The app measures blood pressure when paired with a smartwatch. — Samsung's app that measures blood pressure on its smartwatch has been approved …
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Tweets: @samsungmobile, @maxwinebach, and @jackycwong
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Security firm buys a database, first seen last month, with info on 267M+ mostly US Facebook users, including full names and phone numbers, for £500 on dark web — Threat actors are selling over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums.| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
A look at Elliott Management and Twitter's deal, which bought Jack Dorsey time as CEO, as activist investors pinned Twitter's stagnation on his 4.5-year tenure — Twitter's CEO, last of the Steve Jobs-like tech-founder demigods, was on the verge of being pushed out by private-equity investors.
Tweets: @vanityfair, @jim_edwards, @vanityfair, @b52malmet, and @kantrowitz
| Apple: |
Apple launches App Store, iCloud, Apple Arcade, and Apple Podcasts in 20 new countries; Apple Music expands to 52 new countries — Cupertino, California — Apple announced that starting today, even more customers around the world can enjoy many of Apple's most popular Services.
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Tweets: @beirutspring, @jdevermont, @reuters, @zkahn, and @asymco
| Financial Times: |
Sources including employees at Foxconn and Pegatron facilities say iPhone factories have slowed production, cutting overtime and reducing staff, as demand dips — Some of the biggest factories supplying Apple are reducing staff and cutting overtime — Chinese factories that supply Apple …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Google's head of quantum computing hardware John Martinis resigned from his position this month after disagreements with Hartmut Neven, its quantum AI director — John Martinis brought a long record of quantum computing breakthroughs when he joined Google in 2014. He quit after being reassigned to an advisory role.
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Tweets: @brianroemmele, @skdh, @benjaderberg, @charlesarthur, @wired, and @tsimonite
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple postpones iPhone SE Plus release from H1 to H2 2021, seeing a dip in demand for iPhones and production delays across the upcoming iPhone 12 models — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has shared a new investor note today detailing the ongoing development of Apple's 2020 iPhone 12 models.
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| Hollywood Reporter: |
HBO Max to launch on May 27 for $15 per month with 10,000 hours of programming — The streaming service is set to debut amid the shutdown brought about by the novel coronavirus outbreaking, bringing with it 10,000 hours of library programming from across the WarnerMedia catalog.
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Pressroom, CNET, YouTube, CNET, Engadget, Tom's Guide, The Daily Dot, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @jakestakes, @thr, and @evanwolf
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Thirty experts, including tech execs and VCs, on how the adoption of tech amid the pandemic will change work, education, health care, manufacturing, and more — We're four weeks into the massive time-out forced on us by coronavirus. Many of us have spent much of that time trying to get used …
Tweets: @ideo
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, raises $250M Series E at a $4.5B valuation, following last year's $125M Series D — The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
General Motors is shutting down Maven, the car-sharing service it launched in 2016, after pulling the service from about half the cities it was in last year — The coronavirus pandemic was the final nail in the coffin — General Motors is shutting down Maven, the car-sharing service it launched in 2016, the company tells The Verge.| Lewis Krauskopf / Reuters: |
Analyst: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook account for 25%+ of the S&P 500's market cap, as Amazon and Microsoft perform well during the pandemic — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are once again crowding into a narrow range of technology and internet stocks … Sponsor Posts
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