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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon employees often consulted sales info on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise, contrary to assertions to Congress — Contrary to assertions to Congress, employees often consulted sales information on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Internal documents: Google plans to cut its marketing budget up to 50% for the second half of the year and freeze marketing job hiring — - The company is planning to slash its marketing budgets by as much as half, according to internal documents viewed by CNBC.
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MarketWatch, TheStreet, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Business Insider, Wccftech, Adweek, Silicon Valley Business …, 9to5Google, and Axios
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US; existing advertisers will have 30 days to complete the verification process — - Google began requiring political advertisers wanting to run election ads on its platform to verify their identity back in 2018.
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The Keyword, Gizmodo, The Information, CNET, Axios, The Verge, New York Times, Android Police, Search Engine Land, The Daily Dot, Input, Neowin, Business Insider, Beyond Search, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch, Engadget, Android Central, AdExchanger, and Slashdot
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: EU commissioner says Tim Cook told him Apple and Google's contact tracing API will be available to developers from April 28 — The first version of Apple and Google's jointly developed, cross-platform contact tracing API should be available to developers as of next week …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
FCC adopts a proposal that opens the 6GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use, freeing up more than 1,200MHz of additional bandwidth for next-gen Wi-Fi 6E devices — The unanimous decision opens 1,200MHz of new bandwidth for Wi-Fi 6E devices that are expected to begin arriving this year.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips by 2021 and is working on three Mac processors based on the 5nm A14 chip in the next iPhone — - New processors to be based on iPhone designs, replacing Intel — Transition will be gradual, start with less-powerful computers
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| Charles Davis / Business Insider: |
Amazon confirms a major outbreak of COVID-19 at a NJ warehouse after employee says 30+ are infected, as Amazon is set to end unlimited unpaid time off April 30 — - Over 30 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, New Jersey, have contracted COVID-19, according to sources at the facility.| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Zuckerberg suspended the push to introduce ads to WhatsApp partly to avoid antagonizing regulators but also to avoid angering privacy-conscious users — Worried about angering regulators and wanting to prioritize a broader integration of its services, Facebook pulled back last year …
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| Paayal Zaveri / Business Insider: |
Slack says it will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, will continue to pay contractors and hourly workers their regular wages — - Slack will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, and is committed to continue paying its employees … | Julia Black / The Verge: |
Following layoffs at Bird, interviews with 16 former employees paint a picture of a workplace with high-turnover and an erratic, careless leadership — Inside the electric scooter startup with big workplace problems — Emma* was up late working on a complex analysis from her laptop in bed for Bird.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple Music app is now available on Samsung's smart TV models from 2018 onwards — Another Apple service comes to Samsung's sets, available now — Apple Music is getting an app on Samsung's most recent smart TVs, the two companies announced today. It's the latest expansion …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Instacart says it plans to hire 250K more shoppers and extends availability of COVID-19 sick pay for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis — Instacart's aggressive hiring spree is continuing due to COVID-19 shelter in place orders. Today, the company announced it is adding 250,000 more shoppers …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19 — People who've lost jobs and are stuck indoors are turning to crowd work—filling out online surveys and transcribing audio for less than the minimum wage.
Tweets: @sesmith and @scottthurm
| J.R. Reed / CNBC: |
Tech companies cut hiring, with analysts seeing ~20% drops in job openings between mid-March and mid-April, steep drops in supply chain logistics and delivery — - Despite the massive shift to remote work and the surge in demand for certain online services, the tech industry has seen a widespread drawdown in job listings.Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $19.83B, up 23% YoY, and Data Center Group revenue of $6.99B, up 42.7% YoY; stock is down 5%+ after hours — - Intel declined to provide full-year guidance. — Demand for Intel's products was relatively strong in the quarter, with people needing devices to work or learn from home.
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| Aaron Sankin / The Markup: |
Facebook removes “pseudoscience” from the list of categories advertisers can use to target people after report that the category contained more than 78M people — While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in"pseudoscience"
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Researchers from Apple and CMU detail a system for AI-enabled smart home devices to interpret events in their environments by listening to ambient noise — The system, which they've called Listen Learner, relies on acoustic activity recognition to enable a smart device …
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says it found no evidence of hackers exploiting the newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Mail app for iPhone and iPad — - It saw no immediate threat to users after investigating — Hundreds of millions worldwide use Apple's mobile devices — Apple Inc. said it found …
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| Bloomberg: |
Expedia names Peter Kern, previously vice chairman, to CEO; Eric Hart to become CFO as the company faces a ~40% dip in stock price in 2020 — - Private equity firms Apollo, Silver Lake invest in the company — Media mogul Barry Diller had been helping run Expedia
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| BBC: |
Israel's parliament blocks extension of emergency measures to use phone location data to enforce quarantine past this week — The use by Israel's police of mobile-phone location data to enforce quarantine has been halted because of privacy concerns. — The government had approved the use … | Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Zoom CEO says it hit more than 300M DAUs on April 21, up from about 200M on April 1 — Zoom Video Communications Inc. has been lambasted for its security flaws, but the backlash hasn't slowed growth. The company reported a 50% surge in use of the online meeting application in the past three weeks.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Zoom Blog, The Verge, CNET, Digital Trends, Silicon Valley Business …, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bloomberg, Reuters, Gizchina, SecurityWeek, Forbes, Silicon Republic, and ComputerWeekly.com
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