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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 …
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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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| 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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| 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 … | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram adds bulk comment deletion and control for who can mention or tag you on iOS, to help fight bullying; the ability to pin comments is being tested — Instagram is rolling out some changes today to keep the platform a more positive place for users.
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| Robert Stevens / Decrypt: |
Chat app Telegram says it's abandoning its TON blockchain project, after the SEC challenged the legality of its $1.7B ICO and delayed the network's launch — Telegram has given up on the Telegram Open Network. The launch of the network was delayed by a court case with the SEC. — In brief| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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.| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Hackers say they have breached a law firm used by Lady Gaga, Drake, and others, obtaining 756GB of data, including contracts; firm confirms an attack occurred — A law firm used by A-list stars including Rod Stewart, Lil Nas X and Robert De Niro has been hacked.
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| 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.
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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @pitdesi, @hshaban, @mulegirl, @benprunty, @arthur_affect, @alistairmbarr, @mattoswaltva, @sruhle, @adamsinger, @devonesawa, @hshaban, @evoli, @dellcam, @onesarahjones, @kamilumin, @darren_mooney, @mathewi, @willmcavoyacn, @ws, @theryanford, @brianmcc, @fuzzybritches, @hannonizer, @pete_scanlon, @sameerpatel, @brianfagioli, @isaackrasny, @contrarianp, @bobbierman, @shaig, @jeffersongraham, @tomgara, @dylanbyers, @karynspencer, @jbillinson, @tomgara, @tvgrimreaper, @thekenyeung, @thekenyeung, and @thekenyeung
| 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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| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Waymo says it's raised another ~$750M, expanding the size of its first external investment round to $3B — Waymo said Tuesday that it has raised another roughly $750 million for its self-driving technology, expanding the size of its first external investment round to $3 billion.
Tweets: @axios
| Reuters: |
Sources: Dingdong Maicai raises $300M led by General Atlantic in a round that values the Shanghai-based online grocer at $2B — Yingzhi Yang, Kane Wu — * Dingdong Maicai raises $300 million in fresh funding -sources — * Dingdong's monthly active users up 14% in Jan amid outbreak
| 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.| 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.| 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 … | 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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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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