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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Shortly after Basecamp debuted its email service, HEY, it says its next iOS app update was rejected because Apple wasn't getting its cut of subscription revenue — Right around the time the team at Basecamp was launching their Hey email service to the public on Monday, Zach Waugh …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The distinction of business vs. consumer as a justification for Apple's rejection of HEY from the App Store for not using in-app purchases is flimsy — This statement is paraphrased by Pierce, not a direct quote, but on its surface this business/consumer distinction seems untenable.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / USA Today: |
Facebook launches Voting Information Center for accurate election information and tools for voter registration, aiming to help register 4M people via its apps — The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook and Instagram will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday; the feature will roll out to all US users over the next few weeks — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.
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| Aaron Holmes / Business Insider: |
Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue — - Google is cracking down on two right-wing outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump administration official says DOJ will propose limiting Section 230 legal protections for online platforms like Facebook and Twitter — The action follows President Trump's executive order seeking to weaken broad immunity enjoyed by Facebook, Twitter and other platforms
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple says its head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith, who joined in 2017, is leaving — - Apple VP of Diversity and Inclusion Smith had joined in 2017 — Company planning $100 million initiative to promote equality — Apple Inc.'s head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith is leaving the iPhone company.
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Uber to sell the software that powers its ride-hailing business, starting with public transit agencies; California Marin county is first to buy Uber's software — - Ride-hailing giant partners with California county officials — Program is Uber's first software sale with a third party
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| The Information: |
Sources: TikTok expects its US revenue to hit $500M this year; in 2019, TikTok brought in about $200M to $300M in worldwide revenue — TikTok has taken off like a rocket ship in the U.S. and around the world, creating a new mobile video experience that has left YouTube and Facebook scrambling to keep up.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details efforts to increase Azure durability amid pandemic by expanding submarine cable bandwidth, server scaling changes, and capacity forecasting — Microsoft has been making lots of under-the-covers changes to how it runs its cloud services, including Azure-based Teams, to meet demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Graphika report details a Russia-based influence campaign, known as Secondary Infektion, that ran over 6 years and 300 sites, but failed to win a large audience — Group known as Secondary Infektion used multiple languages, burner accounts to circumvent attempts to detect it
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Barcelona and New York-based Onna, which offers a service that integrates workplace tools, raises $27M Series B led by Atomico — Onna, the “knowledge integration platform” (KIP) that counts Dropbox and Slack as backers, has raised $27 million in Series B funding.
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| VICE: |
Investigation into a “supply chain” of people who scrape OnlyFans content en masse before reposting it for free, often on other adult websites or Discord — In late February, rumors of a massive database of adult content stolen from OnlyFans subscription-only accounts spread through social media.
Tweets: @josephfcox, @motherboard, @bigblackjacobin, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP, are encouraging big advertisers to pull spending from Facebook — Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and others seek protest of what they say is company's failure to make its platform a less-hostile place
Tweets: @dseetharaman, @scottnover, and @jason_kint
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Boston Dynamics says Spot, its quadruped robot, is now available to businesses in the US as part of a developer kit for $74,500 — Boston Dynamics today opened commercial sales of Spot, its quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. Businesses can purchase …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Unbounce, which builds optimized landing pages for SMBs using automation, raises ~$38.4M led by Crest Rock Partners — Landing page optimization company Unbounce is announcing that it has raised $52 million Canadian (approximately $38.4 million in US dollars).| New York Times: |
High school students are using social media and anonymous Google Docs to call out fellow students for racist behavior, sometimes with unintended consequences — Learning has been online and remote this semester. So too, now, are call-outs of questionable behavior.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @madinatoure, @thecompanyman, and @taylorlorenz
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Upgrade, a digital bank focusing on personal loans and credit cards, raises $40M Series D led by Santander InnoVentures at a $1B valuation — This morning Upgrade, a credit-focused fintech startup, announced that it has raised a $40 million Series D round that the company says gives it a $1 billion valuation.| Megan Molteni / Wired: |
Profile of Public Good Projects, a nonprofit that tracks public health misinformation, as it launches a volunteer-led program to tackle vaccine disinformation — Anti-vaccine messages on social media have tripled since the pandemic began. One public health group wants to teach pro-vaccine Americans to fight fire with fire.
Tweets: @wiredscience and @ugagrady
| Kevin Truong / VICE: |
iFixit, which has posted repair manuals for ventilators during the pandemic, says Steris Corporation is claiming copyright infringement; iFixit cites fair use — A popular website with a comprehensive database of repair manuals for ventilators and other medical devices has received a letter …
Tweets: @eff, @motherboard, and @vice
| Jennifer Alsever / Marker: |
A look at OATV's Indie.vc, a VC firm that invests modest amounts between $100K to $1M to power more sustainable tech startups and fund more diverse founders — Why a new approach to venture capital is powering more sustainable startups — and funding more diverse founders
Tweets: @casey__allen, @joshuaogundu, @harryalford3, @sirjrg, and @sether
| Noah Smith / Washington Post: |
Major video game publishers have released statements in support of racial justice, but offer few details about stamping out racism in their online communities — In the wake of George Floyd's death and the ensuing mass protests, a number of major video game publishers and console makers released statements …
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