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| Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber has made an offer to acquire Grubhub, with an agreement possible as soon as this month, sending the food delivery company's stock up 24%+ — Uber Technologies Inc. has made an offer to acquire food-delivery startup Grubhub Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Jack Dorsey tells Twitter staff they can work from home indefinitely even after the pandemic passes; policy won't apply to some jobs requiring physical presence — Some Twitter employees will never return to their office. — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees on Tuesday telling …
Tweets: @ekp, @mikebutcher, @atechkie, @dylanbyers, and @martinsfp
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook is quietly helping to launch American Edge, a political advocacy group in Washington, to battle regulators trying to rein in the tech industry — The organization, called American Edge, arrives at a time when the industry is facing withering antitrust scrutiny in Washington.
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has extended banking services to two bitcoin exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini Trust, the first time it has accepted crypto clients — JPMorgan Chase has taken on two well-known bitcoin exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini Trust, as banking customers, say people familiar with the matter …
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CoinDesk, Forbes, The Block, Messari Crypto, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Blockonomi, Inc42 Media, and PYMNTS.com
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple's over-ear headphones, called “AirPods Studio”, will feature head and neck detection sensors, automated audio channel routing, and more — We've been hearing about Apple's upcoming over-ear headphones for some time, with evidence from multiple sources pointing to the official launch later this year.
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Tweets: @jon_prosser, @_am1t, @brianroemmele, @parkerortolani, and @la3life
| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Smartphone shipments in China rose 17% YoY in April according to government data, suggesting a potential return to normalcy for the consumer hardware market — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Smartphone shipments from China's factories to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same month a year ago …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook says it took action on 9.6M pieces of hate speech content in Q1, up by 3.6M, and AI now proactively detects 88.8% of it, up from 80.2% last quarter — Facebook sheds light on its new AI-powered moderation — Facebook on Monday released a new report detailing how it uses a combination … | Apple: |
Apple unveils an update to Logic Pro X with Live Loops, a redesigned sampling workflow, and new beat-making tools — New Creative Tools for Electronic Music Production Make Logic Pro X 10.5 a Breakthrough Release for Musicians and Producers — Cupertino, California …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Profile and behind-the-scenes story of Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, who helped stop the WannaCry attack and pled guilty to selling the Kronos banking malware — At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SiMa.ai, which is building ultra low power software and chips for machine learning for edge computing, raises $30M Series A led by Dell Technologies — Krishna Rangasayeem, founder and CEO, at SiMa.ai, has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
Tweets: @dannycrichton
| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
Jeffrey Katzenberg blames COVID-19 for Quibi's paltry downloads as execs lower projections from 7M users and $250M subscriber revenue estimated for first year — Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streaming app, meant for phones, are paltry. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Huawei's P30 Pro, its flagship from before the 2019 US restrictions, gets rereleased at a discounted price and still offers Google's apps and services — Super Huawei P30 Pro Turbo HD remix — Huawei is rereleasing its flagship phone from last year as the P30 Pro “New Edition.”
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Sleeper, a social and fantasy sports site that's expanding into esports, raises $20M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total raised to $27.3M — Sleeper, which has developed a social and gaming platform for sports, has raised a $20 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based PlayPlay, which develops a video creation tool for marketing teams, raises €10M Series A led by Balderton Capital — PlayPlay, the Paris-based startup behind a video creation tool that enables comms, marketing and social media teams to produce high-quality video content … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Kids now allows parents to view kids' listening history and block individual tracks and expands to Germany and Japan — Spotify is expanding the capabilities of its parental controls on its Spotify Kids app, aimed at children ages 3 and up on a parent's Spotify Premium Family plan.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Twitter says it will add labels and warning messages to tweets about COVID-19 with misleading or disputed content and plans to expand the labels to other topics — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19 …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Secondary shares marketplace Forge agrees to acquire rival Sharespost in a $160M cash-and-stock deal; Forge has raised $109M to date, Sharespost has raised $38M — Even amid a pandemic, there's a race on to create a powerful, global private securities marketplace where private shares …
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| Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: |
TD Ameritrade-backed ErisX launches the first Ethereum futures trading platform in the US authorized by regulators — Ethereum has taken another big step into the regulated financial world. — ErisX, a US-based digital asset trading platform backed by TD Ameritrade, today launched trading for Ethereum … | Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Equity management platform Carta is planning to launch CartaX, a private share trading platform to rival Nasdaq, this summer for companies worth $1B+ — Silicon Valley start-up poised to launch exchange as tech companies delay IPOs — The Silicon Valley start-up Carta is planning to launch …
Tweets: @sameer_singh17, @mayazi, @thecompoundnews, and @nikmilanovic
| Elise Favis / Washington Post: |
A look at Nookazon, a fan-made online retailer for trading Animal Crossing in-game items that claims 270K DAUs, over 9M listings, and 7M page views per day — Daniel Luu, a 25-year-old software engineer from Maryland, woke up one morning to find hundreds of thousands of people scouring his newly launched website Nookazon.| Franklin Foer / The Atlantic: |
US election security responses against Russian interference in 2016 remain inadequate as Russian tactics continue to evolve in the run up to the 2020 election — Jack Cable sat down at the desk in his cramped dorm room to become an adult in the eyes of democracy.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel Capital commits $132M to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design — Intel today announced that Intel Capital, its global investment organization, committed a total of $132 million to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Lite, the version of the Instagram app aimed at emerging markets, has quietly disappeared; source: a new lightweight Instagram app is being developed — Instagram Lite, the two-year old version of the Instagram app aimed at emerging markets, has quietly disappeared.
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Android Police, TalkAndroid.com, SlashGear, The Next Web, Engadget, PhoneArena, Forbes, and MobileSyrup
| Barton Gellman / Washington Post: |
Adapted excerpt from the book Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman, one of the reporters who received top-secret documents from Snowden about NSA's mass surveillance — After receiving top-secret documents from the NSA whistleblower, reporter Barton Gellman broke the news that the National Security Agency was spying on Americans.
Tweets: @freedomofpress, @carolleonnig, @eff, and @washingtonpost
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn adds polls and live video-based events in a focus on more virtual engagement — With a large part of the working world doing jobs from home when possible these days, the focus right now is on how best to recreate the atmosphere of an office virtually, and how to replicate online essential work that used to be done in person.
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| Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review: |
Iceland's contract tracing app has ~38% adoption, the highest in the world, among its population of 364,000, but its impact on containing COVID-19 seems small — The country has the highest penetration of any automated contact tracing app in the world, but one senior figure says it “wasn't a game changer.”
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Tweets: @techreview, @covidperspectiv, @ckoever, @marcelsalathe, @adamvaughan_uk, @techreview, and @thomasforth
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