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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting a misleading claim in its original blog post, which now says 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants” — Zoom quietly updated a blog post earlier this month — Zoom has admitted it doesn't have 300 million daily active users.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $515 million for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. — Strategy: Like its $300 million predecessor …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel launches flagship 10th-gen Comet Lake desktop CPUs with 10 cores based on its Skylake architecture; the $488 Core i9-10900K CPU can reach 5.3GHz — Today we get the full range of its Intel's 10th Generation processors for desktops. These chips, which fall under the banner of ‘Comet Lake’ …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Motorola Edge Plus review: top-tier specs, good camera, solid battery life, but it's not waterproof, edge display has issues, and it's Verizon exclusive — When great just isn't good enough — After years mainly spent in the midrange phone market, Motorola burst back into the spotlight … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter reports Q1 sales up 3% YoY to $808M as it swings to a net loss of $8M due to COVID-19, mDAUs hit record 166M, up 24% YoY; stock opens down ~6% — Despite traffic for many online properties being at an all-time high, advertising has fallen off a cliff because of the downturn …
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Global smartphone production in Q1 fell by 10% YoY to ~280M, the lowest in five years, and is estimated to drop by 16.5% YoY to ~287M in Q2 — - TrendForce has revised down its forecast of yearly smartphone production volume to 1.24 billion units, an 11.3% decrease YoY, given weakening end-product demand.
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| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out a tool that lets users in the US and Canada transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos as part of the Data Transfer Project — Facebook launched the tool in Ireland last year — Facebook is rolling out a new tool today allowing users in the US and Canada to transfer …
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| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Supply chain algorithms used by companies like Walmart and Amazon, which rely on past data to forecast demand, have been completely upended by the pandemic — The data the algorithms use isn't reliable — Even during a pandemic, Walmart's supply chain managers have to make sure stores …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google introduces new rules for the Chrome Web Store to cut down on spammy extensions, says developers must comply by August 27 or extensions will be delisted — Google plans to remove a bunch of garbage and useless Chrome extensions from the Web Store. — Google announced today new rules …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok and its Chinese version, Douyin, pass 2B downloads on Google Play and Apple's App Store; last quarter's 315M downloads beat its 205M record — TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world's most valued startup (ByteDance) …
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| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Telegram postpones the launch of its TON blockchain for a second time, pushing the go-live date to April 2021, and offers to return $1.2B to investors — Messaging app Telegram postponed the launch of its TON blockchain for a second time on Wednesday, pushing the new go-live date to April 2021 …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says Teams has 75M+ DAUs, up from 44M in mid-March, a 70% increase, and attributes the growth to COVID-19 — The coronavirus pandemic is juicing up numbers for remote work and learning. Microsoft's fiscal Q3 2020 earnings call kicked off with CEO Satya Nadella sharing a slew of numbers.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Design software startup Figma raises $50M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2B valuation — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Figma CEO Dylan Field has enjoyed watching his design software take off in bizarre ways in recent weeks.| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
SoftBank says it sees a loss of ~$6.6B in the year ending March on its WeWork investment held outside the Vision Fund, extending its expected net loss to $8.4B — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) said it sees a loss of around 700 billion yen ($6.6 billion) …
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| Zach Edwards: |
Researcher: major sites like Wish and Mailchimp were leaking email addresses to ads and analytics companies including Facebook and Twitter via URL query strings — Breaches have been found on websites including Wish.com, JetBlue.com, Quibi.com, WashingtonPost.com, NGPVan.com and numerous other organizations...
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| Paayal Zaveri / Business Insider: |
Salesforce is moving all of its events in 2020 online, including Dreamforce, which drew over 170K attendees in 2019, contributing $150M+ to the SF economy — - Salesforce is cancelling all its events for the rest of 2020 and making them virtual, including its annual Dreamforce conference.| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Wall Street has been slow to shift to the cloud, using mainframes until recently, but issues like handling spikes in demand amid COVID-19 may change that — Businesses are learning countless lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. For many financial services companies … | New York Times: |
Dozens of tracking apps for smartphones are being used or developed to help contain the pandemic, despite concerns about security, privacy, and effectiveness — Dozens of tracking apps for smartphones are being used or developed to help contain the coronavirus pandemic.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, 9to5Mac, and The Mozilla Blog
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
FB says it saw a “significant reduction” in advertising demand over the last three weeks of March but the first three weeks of April showed “signs of stability” — - Facebook shares rose as much as 10% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company announced its first-quarter results.| Facebook: |
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