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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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.| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google rolls out BeyondCorp Remote Access, a cloud-based tool that lets employees securely access their company's internal web apps without using a VPN — Google is rolling out the product now as organizations figure out how to accommodate remote workforces through the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Google Cloud Blog, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Silicon Republic, SecurityWeek, Security Boulevard, and ITworld.com. Tweets: @nickmcquire
| 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 … | 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, Bloomberg, The Register, and IT Management
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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