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Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first 20 members, out of a total of 40, who will oversee challenging content issues — The company's independent oversight body will focus on challenging content issues, such as hate speech and harassment. — The authors are co-chairs of Facebook's oversight board.
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Square reports $528M in Q1 revenue from its Cash App, with $306M coming from Bitcoin transactions, exceeding the app's fiat revenue of $222M for the first time — Bitcoin has flippened USD on Square's Cash App, sort of. — As reported in the publicly traded fintech company's …
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Square reports Q1 revenue of $1.38B, up 44% YoY, with net loss of $106M, up $68M YoY, as Square fills reserves to prepare for COVID-19 problems; stock down 6%+ — Payments processor falls to an adjusted loss as it prepares for merchants' transaction and loan losses with reserves — Referenced Symbols
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games says Fortnite has 350M registered players, up from 250M in March 2019; in April, players logged 3.2B hours in the game — More than 3.2 billion hours played in April alone — Epic's Fortnite has more than 350 million registered players, the game developer announced on Wednesday.
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecom operator O2 announce £31B merger in an effort to take on BT, Sky, and Vodafone in the country — The rumors were true: UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecoms operator O2 are to merge, their parent companies confirmed today.
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| Jules Wang / Android Police: |
Google Authenticator now lets users transfer accounts between devices — The Google Authenticator app has undergone its first facelift since 2017, making the jump from version 5 to 5.10. But the visual makeover — including a much-needed adaptation to newer phones' aspect ratios …
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Smart home company Wink to require users pay a $4.99 monthly subscription fee starting May 13, or device automations and accessibility via app will be disabled — Smart home company Wink has made a surprising and heavily criticized announcement: it will soon charge a monthly subscription fee.
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| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Microsoft updates To Do with new features as Wunderlist shutters ~5 years after its acquisition, and the founder behind it unveils work on a new app, Superlist — Today is finally the day Wunderlist dies, years after the Microsoft acquisition. Former users are encouraged to switch to Microsoft To Do …
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Strategy Analytics: global smartwatch shipments grew 20% YoY to 14M in Q1 with Apple Watch maintaining 55% marketshare and Samsung in second place with 15% — BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew 20 percent annually …
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The Libra Association names former US Treasury Department official Stuart Levey as its first CEO ahead of a renewed regulatory push — The Libra Association, the group behind the proposed digital currency invented by Facebook Inc., named former U.S. Treasury Department official Stuart Levey as its first chief executive officer.
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Apple awards $10M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a leader in COVID-19 sample collection kit production — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it is awarding $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a market leader …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Twilio beat Q1 estimates with revenue of $364.9M, up 57% YoY, and reports over 190K active customer accounts; stock is up about 25% after hours — - Twilio beat expectations on results and its guidance for the current quarter. — The company withdrew full-year guidance. — Jeff Lawson
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo reports FY 2019 net profit of $2.43B, up 33.5% YoY, on sales of $12.31B, up 9% YoY, 55.7M Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite consoles sold to date — Nintendo reported that its full-year sales for the fiscal year ended March 31 were $12.31 billion, up 9% from $11.30 billion a year earlier.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Sonos debuts the $799 Sonos Arc soundbar, the $699 Sub, and the $499 Five speakers, available globally on June 10; all will require the new S2 app — Sonos has introduced a trio of new hardware today, adding three new smart speakers to its lineup, including the Sonos Arc soundbar …
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A group of hackers linked to the Chinese military has used Aria-body, a debilitating cyberattack tool, against governments and firms in Australia and SE Asia — An Israeli security company said the hacking software, called Aria-body, had been deployed against governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia.
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Sources: US Department of Commerce is close to signing off on a rule allowing US companies to work with Huawei on setting 5G network standards — (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce is close to signing off on a new rule that would allow U.S. companies to work with China's Huawei Technologies … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dtex, which uses AI to monitor and detect insider threats in enterprise networks, raises $17.5M led by Northgate Capital — A lot of enterprise cybersecurity efforts focus on malicious hackers that work on behalf of larger organizations, be they criminal groups or state actors …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Lyft reports Q1 revenue of $955.7M, up 23% YoY, as its net loss drops to $398.1M from $1.1B in 2019; active riders rose 3% YoY to 21.2M; stock up 10%+ — - On Wednesday, Lyft reported losses of $398.1 million, and revenue of $955.7 million for Q1 2020. — Citing Covid-19 impacts to its business …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Internal document reveals Twitch is looking to fund a slate of original, unscripted series that would be live and interactive on dating, sports, music, and more — - Amazon unit will bankroll slate of unscripted series this year — Use of Twitch has exploded during the coronavirus pandemic| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
PayPal misses Q1 estimates with revenue of $4.62B, up 13% YoY, net income of $84M, down from $667M YoY, and says May 1 was its largest transaction day ever — Referenced Symbols — PayPal Holdings Inc. fell short of first-quarter expectations Wednesday as the company felt the impact …
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PayPal Investor Relations, Reuters, and TheStreet
Tweets: @paypalnews, @jordanhmckee, and @ericjhonsa
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
NFC Forum unveils its Wireless Charging Specification, allowing 1 watt charging for smaller devices — It might soon be much easier to buy a smartphone that can charge small devices like earbuds or smartwatches. The NFC Forum, responsible for near-field communications tech, has unveiled the Wireless Charging Specification (WLC).| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces new features, including Codespaces, a free cloud-based developer environment now in beta that's based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor — Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week.| Times of India: |
Report: India had 227M active internet users in rural areas, more than the 205M in urban areas, for the first time, as of November 2019 — BENGALURU: For the first time, India has more internet users in rural areas than in urban cities. The latest report by the Internet & Mobile Association of India … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Symend, which uses AI to help companies develop individualized consumer debt remediation programs, raises $52M Series B led by Inovia Capital — Customer engagement platform Symend today announced that it raised $52 million, which it says will be put toward R&D and international market expansion.
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