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Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M — Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
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| Amanda Meade / The Guardian: |
In response to Australian regulator, Facebook says it will not pay for shared news links and that not having them at all would not significantly impact business — Social media giant rejects ACCC proposal, saying it could cut out news completely without any significant impact on its business| Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank's invested $500M+ into Credit Suisse supply-chain finance funds that then made big bets on the debt of struggling SoftBank-backed startups — Japanese conglomerate engages in circular flow of financing to Vision Fund start-ups — SoftBank has quietly poured more than $500m … | Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal, Square, others make some businesses wait for weeks to access funds, to protect themselves against the rise of disputed transactions during the pandemic — More people are demanding refunds for things bought before the pandemic. PayPal, Square and others are trying to protect themselves … | Nathan Baschez / Divinations: |
Apple's efforts in health amount to a new OS, a bottleneck that all healthcare players, from providers to device makers, must integrate with to get distribution — Apple is building an operating system for health — This essay was co-authored by Rob Litterst and Nathan Baschez
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
GitHub CEO says company is working to replace the name “master” for the default version of source code repositories with a more neutral term — GitHub getting on board legitimizes movement aimed at removing racially-charged language from software.
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
US efforts to deploy COVID-19 contact tracing apps have fallen flat, as most states retreat from earlier interest and the few with an app struggle with adoption — At a briefing this week, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy touted his state's efforts to trace the spread of the coronavirus …
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| Jack Bandy / Mac O’Clock: |
Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news” — Over one hundred million people use Apple News every month. Our study showed key differences in the stories that editors and algorithms curate for those people.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Vietnam-based Propzy, a real estate marketplace that also helps with financing, insurance, more, raises $25M Series A led by Gaw Capital, SoftBank Ventures Asia — Propzy, a Vietnam-based startup that guides consumers through the entire process of a real estate transaction … | Google Support: |
Google apologizes for a glitch that made a picture of Winston Churchill disappear from his Knowledge Graph entry — This content is likely not relevant anymore. Try searching or browse recent questions. — Get Link Report Abuse — Winston Churchill's Image Removed in UK/US Search Results
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| Fudge_0001 / reddit: |
Thoughts on Mac's transition to ARM, which started with the T1 chip and may soon enter the third of four stages with a new 12" MacBook — Today, I would like to further elaborate on that. … Apple is very likely going to switch to switch their CPU platform to their in-house silicon designs with an ARM architecture.
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| Stephen Harrison / Slate: |
“Neutral point of view” is a core principle of Wikipedia but racial justice protests are sparking debates among contributors on what neutrality actually means — Contributors are rethinking what Wikipedia's commitment to neutrality actually means.
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