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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook launches Messenger Rooms for group video calls, available today in Messenger globally, and says it will soon gain the ability to hold up to 50 people — Facebook is greatly expanding its video chat offerings to keep up with rising demand — Facebook is rolling out a suite …
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Sources: Facebook and Zoom worked since January to launch a video call product on Portal in May, but stopped after Zoom decided to pause new feature development — Facebook, Google and other behemoths are training their sights on Silicon Valley's company of the moment.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Apple and Google release FAQ for contact tracing APIs, describe changes made to address privacy concerns, and pledge to disable APIs once pandemic is contained — The companies released more details on their ambitious public health project — On Friday, Apple and Google revised …
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Telegram says it now has 400M MAUs, up from 300M a year ago, and will offer secure group video calls sometime this year — Now that the coronavirus pandemic has made video calls increasingly popular and critical, services like Zoom, Google Meet, WhatsApp and Telegram are vying for attention.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to step down, President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1 — - AT&T announced CEO Randall Stephenson will retire and President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1. — The transition comes at a tough …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nintendo says 160K Nintendo accounts were compromised 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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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
A text string in the Sindhi language can crash iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Watch when devices receive a notification with it; bug seems to be fixed in iOS 13.4.5 beta — Every so often, a bug in iOS emerges where a certain string of text will cause your iPhone or iPad to crash.
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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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| Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: |
Federal court officially approves the $5B settlement Facebook reached with the FTC last July — 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 last July following …
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Sources: cloud collaboration service Airtable is in talks to raise at least $50M at a valuation between $2.5B and $4B; Airtable was valued at $1.1B in 2018 — As some startups implore venture capitalists for lifelines, others are negotiating deals at eye-popping valuations without offering so much as a pitch deck.
Tweets: @mdudas
| 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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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Sources: OnePlus downsized some European offices, including UK and Germany, by as much as 80%, while offices in Finland, where it sees potential, are unaffected — It's only been a little over a week since the OnePlus 8 launch, but the company apparently went ahead and announced significant redundancies across Europe since yesterday.
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Tweets: @alexdobie, @maxjmb, @benwood, and @richardlai
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Dallas-based Bestow, which claims to offer instant life insurance by not requiring users to take medical exams, raises $50M Series B led by Valar Ventures — Note: This headline and story was updated post-publication to more accurately reflect information provided by the company.
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
SF supervisor says Uber is retaliating against the city's temporary cap on food delivery commissions by ceasing deliveries to low income neighborhoods — San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney accused Uber of redlining after it cut off access to Uber Eats for Treasure Island residents …
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