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Sources: Facebook puts off its effort to build ads into WhatsApp as it focuses on B2C communications, but will sell ads in WhatsApp's Status at some point — Social-media giant scraps earlier strategy, seeks other ways to monetize messaging service used by 1.5 billion
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| Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030, remove all carbon it has ever emitted by 2050, and launch a $1B climate innovation fund — The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem. The carbon in our atmosphere has created a blanket of gas that traps heat and is changing the world's climate.
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft partners with T-Mobile to provide 4G SIM cards to students in underserved areas, announces 14 Windows 10 PCs, some cell-connected, starting from $219 — Microsoft announces partnership and new features to improve education. — What you need to know
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
NBC says Peacock will launch on July 15 and have a free tier with limited programming and two premium tiers, at $4.99/month with ads and $9.99/month with no ads — Comcast is introducing three different subscription tiers — NBCUniversal's streaming service, Peacock …
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DoorDash pay data analysis: the average contractor earns $1.45/hour, nearly 33% of jobs pay less than $0 after expenses, and only 11% pay more than minimum wage — Food delivery app DoorDash has grown rapidly into the national industry leader, serving all 50 states and outpacing GrubHub …
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| Rachel Metz / CNN: |
How the increasing use of AI to vet job applications is forcing career counselors at universities to prepare students on how to impress the AI algorithms — San Francisco (CNN)College career centers used to prepare students for job interviews by helping them learn how to dress appropriately or write a standout cover letter.
Tweets: @elanazeide, @iajunwa, @cnnbusiness, @sfiegerman, @spirosmargaris, @unccnews, @cgsloan, and @juancpedreira
| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Following a BBC investigation, Twitter apologizes for letting ads be micro-targeted using keywords like “transphobic”, “white supremacists”, and “anti-gay” — Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups.
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| Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post: |
Shanghai reportedly is trialing facial recognition at pharmacies to flag potential abusers and prevent pharmacists from helping patients obtain illegal drugs — New terminals being trialled at 31 health care organisations require people buying controlled medicines to verify … | Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
LaunchDarkly, a feature management platform for developers, raises $54M led by Bessemer Venture Partners; sources say the company is now valued at $800M+ — Deal ensures venture firm will retain a stake in the software developer now valued at more than $800 million
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and over 100 others, sign amicus brief to block Trump's “public charge” rule which sets high bar for immigrants to get legal status — Companies across the country are trying to convince a federal judge that a new change to the U.S. immigration system would hurt innovation and the economy.
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
FBI says it will notify state officials when local election systems are hacked, after criticism that it wasn't doing enough to inform states of election threats — Bureau previously would inform victim counties but not states of hacking — WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New report finds Twitch viewership dropped 9.8% in Q4 compared with Q3 after its top streamers left, YouTube Gaming Live hours watched increased 46% over 2019 — The loss of several big-name streamers is finally taking its toll on Twitch, according to a new report from StreamLabs and Newzoo out today.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Nancy Pelosi slams Facebook's “shameful” behavior, saying it doesn't “care about truth” and its execs “schmooze” Trump's admin to avoid taxes, antitrust action — - During her weekly press briefing, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google announces Premium Support plan for enterprise cloud customers, starting at $12.5K per month with 15-minute response times for mission-critical situations — Keeping up its push to get more large enterprises to use its cloud, Google LLC today announced a new Premium Support plan …
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TechCrunch, Google Cloud Blog, cloudcomputing-news.net, ZDNet, 9to5Google, and WebProNews. Tweets: @nickheer
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI: nation-state hackers breached the networks of two US municipalities last year, targeting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability that was patched in February — The SharePoint CVE-2019-0604 vulnerability has been one of the most targeted security flaw — Nation-state hackers have breached …
Tweets: @protaapp, @gossithedog, @dangoodin001, and @bad_packets
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Renders of Huawei's P40 Pro show a camera bump with Leica branding that has five lenses at the back and two selfie cameras at the front, but no headphone jack — Seven cameras, zero Google apps? — New renders from Evan “Evleaks” Blass give us what may well be our best look yet at Huawei's next flagship phone.
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Android Central, MSPoweruser, and CNET
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Subscription podcast startup Luminary lowers monthly US subscription prices, from $7.99 a month to $4.99, and also cuts international rates — The platform's subscription fee was an unpopular part of its troubled launch — Subscription podcast startup Luminary, which is trying to shake … | New York Times: |
Turkey lifted a two-and-a-half year ban on Wikipedia on Wednesday, restoring access after the country's top court ruled that blocking it was unconstitutional — The country's top court had ruled that the move was unconstitutional. — The Turkish government lifted a two-and-a-half-year ban …
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| Katie Kasunic / vpnMentor: |
Porn cam network PussyCash leaves ~20GB of personal data, including government IDs, of over 4,000 models exposed in an Amazon S3 bucket for days — The vpnMentor cybersecurity research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered a leaking S3 Bucket with 19.95GB of visible data … | Yolanda Redrup / Australian Financial Review: |
Australia-based hotel booking tech company SiteMinder raises A$100M at a valuation of A$1.1B, says it now has 35,000 hotels worldwide as clients — Hotel booking tech company SiteMinder has become the country's newest $1 billion tech unicorn, banking more than $100 million in capital … | Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
How spyware from eSurv, which was helping police hack suspects' phones in Italy, was allegedly used by its employees to hack the phones of innocent Italians — After successfully creating a health care app for doctors to view medical records, Diego Fasano, an Italian entrepreneur …
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