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Twitter will begin testing “Fleets”, letting iOS and Android users make posts that disappear after 24 hours, in Brazil, finally using a Stories-like format — Twitter is testing its own version of Stories. The company announced today it will begin to trial a new sharing format called …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
In new App Store review guidelines, Apple now allows push notification advertising if users opt in, raises the quality bar on dating and “fortune telling” apps — Apple today updated its App Store review guidelines regarding some of the features introduced with iOS 13 …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Google announces it has hired Sony game development leader Shannon Studstill to run a new Stadia Games and Entertainment studio in LA — Google announced that it has hired Sony game development leader Shannon Studstill to run a new Stadia Games and Entertainment studio in Playa Vista, California, in the Los Angeles area.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple retail employees say a memo to technical support staff noted iPhone repair parts and replacement phones would be in short supply for as long as 2-4 weeks — - Company re-opens nearly all of its retail locations in China — Coronavirus begins to strain Apple's global supply chain
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| VICE: |
A look at Banjo, which offers Palantir-like tools to flag emergencies, crime, and more using AI and has a 5-year deal with Utah and access to surveillance data — The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Corellium, which was sued by Apple over its iOS virtualization software, demos Project Sandcastle, which uses checkra1n jailbreak to install Android on iPhone 7 — Ten years ago, David Wang pulled off a remarkable trick, installing Android on the first-generation iPhone.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google Assistant can now be asked to read webpages or Android app content aloud, launching with support for 42 different languages — Google Assistant is able to read web pages or and news articles on Android devices worldwide today, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat.
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| Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
India's Supreme Court strikes down central bank's two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country — - RBI banned banking services for digital currencies in 2018 — Start ups, exchanges, industry body challenged RBI's directive — India's Supreme Court struck …
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| R.T. Watson / Wall Street Journal: |
Quibi says it has closed a second round of financing worth $750M that includes about $400M raised at the end of 2019, bringing its total raised to $1.75B — Closing $750 million financing round brings total raised to $1.75 billion — Short-form video streamer Quibi said it has closed …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google moves all job interviews to Hangouts “for the foreseeable future” due to coronavirus, while Amazon and Facebook have also limited on-site job interviews — Amazon and Facebook have also limited on-site job interviews — Google has begun informing prospective job candidates … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg details how Facebook and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are responding to COVID-19: free ads for WHO and other health orgs, misinfo flagging, more — Mark Zuckerberg has outlined some of the steps that Facebook and his family's non-profit, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative …
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| Bloomberg: |
OYO Hotels CEO Ritesh Agarwal says OYO will cut ~17% of its 30k global staff to ~25k; sources: OYO intends to fire “about half” of its full-time staff in China — - The startup is now firing 30% of its staff, net, in China — Signs of trouble growing at one of India's biggest startups| Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
Facebook says it has developed a more efficient ML tool to spot fake accounts, which has already helped take down 6.6B such accounts in the last year — Even equipped with a brand-new, high-performance algorithm, Facebook is unsure that it will ever win the war against fake accounts.
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
After Zynga's Sept. 2019 data breach, which affected ~172M users, 2 plaintiffs have filed a suit against the company for “failure to reasonably safeguard” info — More than 172 million people were reportedly affected — Two individuals have filed a class-action complaint … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom Q4: revenue of $188.3M, up 78% YoY, ~81,900 customers with 10+ employees, up ~61%; stock is up from ~$75 in Jan. to $116 amid COVID-19 but down after hours — - Zoom beat estimates across the board. — The company has experienced record usage as the coronavirus has spread.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook fact-check partner Daily Caller faces scrutiny for labeling Politico, NBC News stories on Trump's COVID-19 comments as false, raising process concerns — Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Did Trump call coronavirus the Democrats' “new hoax”? — Those are the big questions emerging … | BBC: |
Tesla installed older chips in some new Model 3 cars sold in China because of supply issues caused by COVID-19, says it will upgrade them for free when it can — Tesla has revealed that it installed older, slower processors in new cars because of supply chain issues caused by the coronavirus outbreak.| Steven Overly / Politico: |
Federal judge rejects Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's suit against Google that claimed the brief suspension of her Ads account last summer violated her free speech rights — A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit in which Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused Google of temporarily suspending … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Top court in France rules an Uber driver in 2017 should have been classified as an employee; Uber says it's made changes since then to give drivers more control — France's Court of Cassation, a court of last resort, has ruled that a former Uber driver should have been considered as an employee instead of a self-employed partner.
Tweets: @sergioaved and @daveleeft
| Bloomberg: |
A look at three startups making credit cards for businesses, Ramp, Divvy, and Brex, which have collectively received over $1B in funding and debt — - Investors have placed big bets on business credit cards — American Express is still handily the largest player| Aijaz Hussain / Associated Press: |
India restores internet access in Kashmir for two weeks, though mobile data restrictions remain, after Supreme Court ruling that the ban could not be indefinite — SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian authorities on Wednesday temporarily revoked a ban on social media sites and restored full internet access …
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