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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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 Statt / The Verge: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now loses more titles from developers including Xbox Game Studios and Warner Bros. even as it works to bring in more games ahead of June launch — But it's gaining more Ubisoft titles — Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service is losing access to more titles later this month, the company announced on Monday.
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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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| 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
| Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg: |
France says its contact-tracing application, which would likely send tracking data to a state-run server, won't work with iOS Bluetooth privacy protections — - Minister says Apple protocol slows government's app deployment — Government developing app without using Google-Apple platform
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Gizmodo, CNET, ZDNet, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, The Guardian, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, Telecoms.com, MacDailyNews, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, and iMore
Tweets: @ansip_eu, @helenefouquet, @a_bacci, @1br0wn, @kaepora, @bloombergasia, @carnage4life, @abirghattas, and @markscott82
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
The hacker that stole ~$25M worth of cryptocurrency from dForce-based Lendf.Me returns ~$24M through a series of transactions involving different token types — The hacker that drained $25 million in cryptocurrency from decentralized finance protocol dForce over the weekend has sent back almost all the stolen assets.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ForgeRock, which provides digital identity management services, raises $93.5M Series E led by Riverwood Capital and Accenture Ventures — For better or worse, digital identity management services — the process of identifying and authenticating users on networks to access services … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
SAP names Christian Klein as sole CEO effective April 30, as co-CEO Jennifer Morgan departs; both were named co-CEOs in Oct. after Bill McDermott stepped down — SAP's move to co-CEOs didn't last long as Jennifer Morgan departs and Christian Klein becomes sole CEO.
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SAP News Center, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, IT Management, and The Register
Tweets: @jillpopelka, @sarahmsyed, @ldignan, @dahowlett, @gscott16, @jackieghalpin, and @jacksgatorssap
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Kickstarter announced it will likely lay off employees and restructure the business as projects are down ~35% YoY with “no clear sign of rebound” — Talks are starting with the union — Kickstarter announced in an internal memo today that it's likely going to lay off employees.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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