Techmeme: Facebook adds knowledge library and alerting service to Workplace, says the tool is well placed to support remote work during pandemic (Andrew Hutchinson/Social Media Today)

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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 …

More: Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine, @brianroemmele, @tedgioia, @adrianweckler, @jason_kint, @jonrussell, and @joshconstine

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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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Tweets: @nintendoeurope, @tomwarren, and @dj_link

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: @michaelcorleyny, @kevin_indig, @_am1t, @justinpulitzer, and @nihalmehta

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 …

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, Macworld, International Business Times, South China Morning Post, Threatpost, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Forbes, WeLiveSecurity, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @trustedreviews

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 …

More: Engadget, Android Central, Gizchina, TechSpot, TechRadar.com, Ubergizmo, Wccftech, and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @jason_kint, @joshconstine, and @alexeheath

Lauren Feiner / CNBC:

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to step down, President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1 — Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc. — AT&T announced CEO Randall Stephenson will step down. President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1.

More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Wire, Axios, and AppleInsider

Tweets: @reckless, @reckless, @backlon, @pkafka, and @sallyshin

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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 …

More: Slack. Tweets: @baldingsworld and @peggymangot

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.

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.

Tweets: @carnage4life. Thanks:@mattrosoff

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.

More: The Coinbase Blog, The Block, Messari Crypto, coinspeaker.com, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, CryptoSlate, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and InsideBitcoins.com

Tweets: @coinbase, @jmflatow, and @iamdcinvestor

Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:

Facebook adds knowledge library and alerting service to Workplace, says the tool is well placed to support remote work during pandemic — With more people switching to working from home amid the COVID-19 lockdowns, Facebook is adding some new features to its professional Workplace platform …

More: Facebook, VentureBeat, Business Insider, and Adweek

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

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.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @forrespect, @bcmerchant, and @ceodonovan

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 …

Source: Les Echos. More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Reuters, Ubergizmo, CNET, Engadget, ProgrammableWeb.com, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Input, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, Pocket-lint, and Cult of Mac

Tweets: @thierrybreton, @robertlufkinmd, @umarsaif, and @dominiccampbell

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

Carrie Mihalcik / CNET:

Federal court officially approves the $5B settlement Facebook reached with the FTC last July — Now it's official. — Now, it's Facebook official. The social network said a federal court on Thursday officially approved a settlement Facebook reached with the US Federal Trade Commission …

More: About Facebook, Reuters, Telecompaper, and Social Media Today

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 …

More: Engadget, Reuters, Telecoms.com, CNBC, BBC, and ComputerWeekly.com

Tweets: @notcursede, @jimwaterson, and @profwoodward

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Intel reports Q1 revenue of $19.83B, up 23% YoY, and Data Center Group revenue of $6.99B, up 42.7% YoY; stock is down 3%+ — - 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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