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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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Tweets: @_am1t, @justinpulitzer, and @nihalmehta
| 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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| 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked images from 2019 show Google considered a feature that let users tip money to websites like Wired or NYT as part of its Contributor program — Leaked images obtained by TechCrunch reveal that Google considered and designed a feature that would let people donate money to websites …
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Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine, @tedgioia, @adrianweckler, @jason_kint, @jonrussell, and @joshconstine
| 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 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nintendo says 160K Nintendo accounts have been breached since the beginning of April using credentials obtained illegally by “some means other than our service” — The issues started at the beginning of April — Nintendo is disabling the ability to log into a Nintendo Account through …
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| 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
| 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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Tweets: @thierrybreton, @robertlufkinmd, @umarsaif, and @dominiccampbell
| 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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| 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.| Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: |
Coinbase announces Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange — San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase announced today the release of Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange.
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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
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @petergarnry, @danielnewmanuv, and @mattrosoff
| 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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| 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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Input, GeekWire, CNBC, Amazon Weekly New Digest, Business Insider, Vox, Ubergizmo, Politico, Daring Fireball, Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, The Hill, and Seeking Alpha
| The Economic Times: |
How IT companies in India transitioned 4M employees to work remotely, including by moving desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes — IT companies had to move desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes as they could not procure laptops in multiple thousands at such short notice.
Tweets: @omkar_raii
| 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 …
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Engadget, Reuters, Telecoms.com, CNBC, and ComputerWeekly.com
Tweets: @jimwaterson and @profwoodward
| 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, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Zoom rolls out its 5.0 update, focused exclusively on security and privacy features, including easier call management and upgrading encryption — Zoom is moving quickly to address complaints — Zoom promised a 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues, and the company is delivering on some of those promises.
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Zoom Blog, The Verge, OnMSFT.com, CNET, Digital Trends, Silicon Valley Business …, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Reuters
Tweets: @derekmross and @carnage4life
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
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