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Facebook removes some events calling for protests of stay-at-home orders, saying “events that defy government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed” — The events, which were planned in California, Nebraska and New Jersey, violated protective measures imposed by governors, Facebook said.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook releases initial results of Carnegie Mellon's COVID-19 survey in the US and interactive maps based on de-identified, aggregated data, updated daily — Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook. — As the world fights covid-19 and countries develop plans to reopen …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba says it will invest $28B over the next three years to expand cloud infrastructure, such as data centers, to extend its cloud services to more countries — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will invest 200 billion yuan ($28 billion) on cloud infrastructure such as datacenters over the next three years …
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Uber says it will test two new delivery initiatives during the pandemic: Direct, aimed at retailers and businesses, and Connect, aimed at personal items — Drivers to transport items ranging from medical supplies to pet food — Uber is reviving an attempt to offer deliveries of goods …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Magic Keyboard with trackpad review: great typing experience and excellent trackpad, but it's heavy and thick, expensive, and has no function row — It's what we've all been asking for — for better or worse — At first glance, Apple's new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro looks …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Zoom's business partner Dropbox privately paid hackers to find bugs in Zoom's code and pressed the company to fix them, fearing vulnerabilities — Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
France's Inria and Germany's Fraunhofer detail their ROBERT contact-tracing protocol, which promises anonymity but upon inspection may fail to truly deliver it — Research institutes Inria and Fraunhofer have shared details on their contact-tracing protocol that could be used by the French and German governments in the coming weeks.
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| Sarah Frier / Fast Company: |
Book excerpt from Sarah Frier's No Filter gives a behind-the-scenes look at the FTC's 2012 investigation and approval of Facebook's Instagram acquisition — Antitrust law was not written for modern acquisitions like Instagram. A traditional monopoly was a company with such a hold …
Tweets: @sarahfrier and @fastcotech
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK government announces a £250M Future Fund, to provide up to £5M of funding to qualifying high-growth companies, and £750M in loans and grants for R&D by SMBs — After mounting pressure from the U.K. tech startup ecosystem, and much debate, the British government today unveiled plans …
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| CNBC: |
A slump in digital ad prices is allowing Internet gaming, e-commerce, and online learning companies to buy ads at a discount amid a growth in usage — - Facebook, Google and Twitter are seeing ad prices drop precipitously as companies in travel, entertainment and physical retail freeze spending.
Tweets: @chrismessina, @villi, and @megancgraham
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Legal experts say any goodwill towards tech giants generated during the pandemic will have little impact on the ongoing antitrust probes — - Tech companies have played a key role in the coronavirus response, but antitrust experts say it's unlikely to curry favor with law enforcement.| Sophie Shulman / CTech: |
Amid the pandemic, some Israeli tech companies have cut salaries by up to 40% and many have turned to repricing stock options as a means of retaining talent — With Israeli tech companies having to cut employees' salaries by up to 40%, many have turned to repricing stock options as a means of maintaining their talent
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| Christina Settimi / Forbes: |
Esports and gaming lifestyle media company FaZe Clan raises $40M led by Jimmy Iovine and mobile e-commerce company NTWRK — E.T.; Adds the value of the raise and additional names of individual investors. — Esports company FaZe Clan announced that it has closed a $40 million round … Sponsor Posts
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