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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 revenues 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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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
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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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android 11 Beta 1 is being pushed back to June 3, about a month behind schedule, but the final release is still on track for Q3 — Back in February, Google laid out plans for three Android 11 developer previews and betas. The company delivered the first half on that schedule amid COVID-19 …
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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 … | 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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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft debuts 13.5-inch and 15-inch Surface Book 3 laptops with 10th-gen quad-core Intel CPUs, new NVIDIA GPUs, available May 21 from $1,600 and $2,300 — With the Surface Book 2, Microsoft proved it could take on the MacBook Pro directly with a powerful and genuinely innovative PC notebook.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
PayPal misses Q1 estimates with revenue of $4.62B, up 13% YoY, and net income of $84M, down from $667M YoY; 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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| Sarvottam Kumar / Fossbytes: |
Inkscape, a 16-year-old open source project, has released version 1.0 of its free vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS — With over 16 years of heavy development, the open-source graphics editor Inkscape has finally hit a milestone with the release of version 1.0.
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ZDNet, Softpedia News, and BetaNews
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Source: Spotify is testing video podcasts in its app, starting with two YouTube stars — The test is coming to half of Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar's audience — Spotify is now testing video podcasts in its app, starting with two YouTube stars: Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar, hosts of Zane and Heath: Unfiltered.
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| 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 … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Apple SVP Craig Federighi about the iPadOS cursor, a significant change to the pointer paradigm, and the decisions Apple made to get there — Apple SVP Craig Federighi talks about the iPad's new cursor and Magic Keyboard — Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer …
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| Reuters: |
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 … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Data Protection Board publishes updated guidelines arguing that scrolling and “cookie walls”, which block users from content, don't constitute consent — You can't make access to your website's content dependant on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
GigaSpaces, which develops in-memory data analytics software, raises $12M led by Fortissimo Capital, bringing its total raised to $53M — GigaSpaces, a startup developing in-memory computing solutions for AI and machine learning workloads, today announced it raised $12 million.
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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
Tweets: @zck, @newsynick, @mhbergen, @lucas_shaw, and @lucas_shaw
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Security researchers say India's contact tracing app, mandated for many workers and downloaded over 90M times, could leak patient GPS data — The system's use of GPS data could let hackers pinpoint who reports a positive diagnosis. — As countries around the world rush to build smartphone apps …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Report: VC funding in Latin America more than doubled YoY to a record $4.6B in 2019 across 440 deals, compared to ~$2B invested in 2018 across 463 deals — I've been tracking venture funding in Latin America since 2017. Overall, it has not only been increasing-it has exploded.Sponsor Posts
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