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Alphabet reports revenue of $41.2B, up 13% YoY, net income of $6.8B, up from $6.7B YoY, Other Bets operating loss grew to $1.1B; headcount grew to 123K, up ~20K — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 28, 2020 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.
| Matt Stroud / OneZero: |
The CEO of Banjo, a SoftBank-backed surveillance firm that's raised nearly $223M, was once a neo-Nazi and was involved in the drive-by shooting of a synagogue — magazine profiles and on conference stages, Damien Patton, the 47-year-old co-founder and CEO of the surveillance startup Banjo, often recounts a colorful autobiography.
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| Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune: |
Utah AG suspends Banjo's state contract after report about its founder's KKK past, suspends use of the surveillance tech while auditing it on data privacy, bias — • The Utah Attorney General's Office will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after a news report showed … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: Uber executives discuss cutting ~20% of its 27,000 headcount in the coming weeks; company veteran CTO Thuan Pham has resigned — Executives at Uber are discussing plans to cut around 20% of the company's employees, as it copes with a sharp decline in its ride-hailing business due …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
YouTube adds fact-check info boxes to some searches, above the search results, in the US, after launching in Brazil and India last year — The program launched in Brazil and India last year — YouTube will begin adding informational panels containing information from its network …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds COVID-19 testing site information to Apple Maps across the US and makes improvements to its Mobility Trends site — Apple has now added COVID-19 testing sites to its Apple Maps app across the U.S., covering all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The update provide testing locations …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Instagram has been overrun with cash giveaways, which are often framed as charity, but are part of growth schemes run by social media marketing firms — As the coronavirus continues to disrupt lives and livelihoods, influencers are offering free money to followers — and gaining a lot more in return.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
In an email to staff, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company will allow employees to return to offices no earlier than June 1 and take a “staggered” approach — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company will allow employees to return to offices no earlier than June 1 …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Shopify launches Shop, a consumer shopping app that allows users to browse recommended and local products and buy using the one-click Shop Pay checkout process — While Shopify is best-known for powering the online stores of more than 1 million businesses, the company is launching …
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| David Gelles / New York Times: |
A look at efforts by the tech industry to procure PPE for frontline workers, including one led by Salesforce's Marc Benioff to secure 50M pieces of PPE for $25M — A call from a university chancellor set in motion a private sector effort to procure 50 million masks, gowns and swabs for American medical facilities.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify-owned Anchor introduces a feature that will allow creators to turn their video chats and virtual hangouts into podcast-ready audio — Spotify is tapping into the increased usage of video conferencing during the coronavirus quarantine to grow its own podcast business.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a way for users to fundraise for nonprofits while livestreaming, showing streamers a breakdown of donors, so they can give them a shout-out — Instagram is today launching a new way for users to fundraise for nonprofits via Instagram Live, amid the coronavirus pandemic.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Kaspersky researchers detail a targeted espionage campaign via Play Store spyware apps, aimed at a few hundred users in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India — Malicious Android apps from the so-called PhantomLance campaign targeted hundreds of users, and at least two slipped past Google's defenses.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
British payments firm Checkout.com joins the Libra Association, the first payments processor to do so since Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe pulled out in October — - Checkout.com is the first payments firm to join the Libra Association after Visa, Mastercard and Stripe pulled out over regulatory concerns.
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Sources: Huawei has partnered with French-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics to co-design mobile and automotive chips as it seeks a shield from US sanctions — Collaboration with Tesla supplier STMicro also set to aid self-driving goals — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies is working …
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| Gizmodo: |
Parolees say technical issues of Guardian, an app that uses GPS and biometric data for tracking, are causing problems like losing jobs and reincarceration — On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to purchase a smartphone …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Oracle announces Zoom has picked it as the meeting service's core cloud infrastructure provider and is already moving seven petabytes through its cloud daily — The deal is a major win for Oracle's cloud computing business, especially considering Zoom's newfound ubiquity.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook restructured its security teams last week, in a move affecting detection-engineering and alert-response teams and more than two dozen staff — The social network displaced more than two dozen employees who work on security, as the company fights threats such as foreign meddling.
Tweets: @nytimestech, @ngleicher, @jason_kint, @guyro, @ericgeller, @sheeraf, @mikeisaac, and @campuscodi
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: TripAdvisor will cut ~300 global and ~600 US positions, shutting San Francisco and downtown Boston offices; most remaining employees to take 20% cut — TripAdvisor Inc. is cutting about a quarter of its workforce in a bid to shrink costs as the global coronavirus pandemic decimates travel.| James Cook / Telegraph: |
Deliveroo, which employs over 2,500 people, is laying off 367 and furloughing 50 employees as it struggles amid low demand — 50 employees have also been furloughed as the business prepares for an economic downturn — Deliveroo is letting go of 367 of its employees as it struggles with demand amid coronavirus lockdown.Thanks:@matthfield
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Facebook plans to add the ability for Pages to charge for access to livestreamed events, but details like a cut percentage and the launch date are lacking — Facebook plans to allow users to charge for livestreams, which will provide a way for musicians and other creators to monetize … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
AMD reports Q1 revenues of $1.79B, up 40% YoY, non-GAAP net income of $222M, compared to $62M in the year prior; stock down ~5% in after-hours — Computing and Graphics revenue was up 73 percent year-over-year, thanks to strong Ryzen processor and Radeon product channel sales.
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| Marne Levine / About Facebook: |
Facebook says it will stream a virtual graduation ceremony on May 15, with a commencement speech from Oprah Winfrey; highlights will be shared on Instagram — This is a bittersweet time for the Class of 2020. As students head toward graduation, it's not the day they might have imagined …
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The Verge, People.com, Entertainment Tonight, Los Angeles Times, Variety, USA Today, and Adweek. Tweets: @zagrrl
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Interviews show some companies and retail stores are equipping existing security cameras with AI software to track social distancing and mask-wearing — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Stores and workplaces eager to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus are equipping existing security cameras …
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Washington Post, Gizmodo, and Input
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Cheetah, which offers contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies, raises $36M Series B led by Eclipse Ventures, bringing its total funding to $66M+ — Cheetah, which offers contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies, has closed $36 million in a Series B funding round, the company exclusively told Crunchbase News.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
As Amazon's no-questions-asked paid leave policy ends on May 1, warehouses are safer but interviews show many workers are not turning up and remain scared — In the breakroom at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, a PowerPoint presentation playing on repeat shows people … Sponsor Posts
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