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On a call with Facebook employees Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg stood firmly behind his decision to leave up President Trump's inflammatory posts — In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on President Trump's messages, Mark Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.”
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| Sidney Fussell / Wired: |
Protests renew scrutiny of tech company's ties to law enforcement, as company officials issue statements in support of protesters — Amazon executives tweeted support for protesters. But the company sells a surveillance tool to police that studies say misidentifies darker-skinned people.
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| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
Zoom CEO says the app's upcoming end-to-end encryption feature will be available only to paid users in order to comply with law enforcement in case of misuse — If you're a free Zoom user, and waiting for the company to roll out end-to-end encryption for better protection of your calls, you're out of luck.
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Google removes Remove China Apps, which promised to help users rid their smartphones of Chinese apps, from the Play Store; the app had 4.7M downloads in India — Remove China Apps reached top of Play Store in India before it was ousted on Tuesday — Google intervened on Tuesday after millions …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek says Facebook and PayPal were participating in its ongoing Series F; Gojek was valued at $10B after raising $1.2B in March — Facebook and PayPal have made investments in GoJek, joining Google and Tencent among other high-profile technology companies …
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Interview with ex-Uber CTO Thuan Pham, who left last month, on his seven years atop the company, its rapid expansion, future plans, and more — Reflecting on seven years as the top technology executive at Uber Technologies Inc., Thuan Pham divides his time there into three “tours of duty,” as he describes them.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Early build of iOS 14 points to the addition of an offline, built-in translator in Safari and possible full support of Apple Pencil input on websites — Apple is working to include a built-in translator in Safari, 9to5Mac has learned, as well as full Apple Pencil support on websites.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank launches Opportunity Growth Fund to invest in companies led by founders and entrepreneurs of color, initially starting with $100M — As we continue to see protests across the US (and elsewhere) sparked by the killing of George Floyd by police in Minnesota, SoftBank is announcing … | Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Trump's executive order on social media is facing its first legal challenge, from the Center for Democracy and Technology, filed in DC's US District Court — The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology argues that the president's move against Twitter and other companies is retaliatory.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Study that analyzed real-world web traffic shows that only around a third of users changed their passwords following a data breach announcement — Only a third of users changed their password following a data breach. — Only around a third of users usually change their passwords following …
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: the investor group that got US approval to buy Grindr has financial and personal links to the dating app's current owner Beijing Kunlun Tech — Echo Wang, Alexandra Alper, Chibuike Oguh — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investor group that got U.S. approval to buy Grindr Inc …
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Brave says it had 15.4M MAUs, up 125% YoY, and 5.3M DAUs in May, and the number of campaigns using Brave Ads grew from 400 to 1,530 since October 2019 — Over 1,500 ad campaigns delivered since Brave Ads launched one year ago — This May, Brave saw its monthly active users pass … | Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Rivals say Microsoft used sharp-elbowed tactics to push Teams during the pandemic, deploying 50 staffers to work with NYC's school district to replace Zoom — The tech giant sees Teams, its group conferencing and collaboration software, as critical to its futureSponsor Posts
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