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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter plan to pay their hourly workers regular wages as they ask their staff to work from home — Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter all told Axios on Thursday night that they plan to pay their hourly workers regular wages even as they encourage …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple is encouraging employees in Silicon Valley and Seattle to work from home as an “additional precaution” against the outbreak of coronavirus — Apple Inc. is encouraging employees in Silicon Valley to work from home as an “additional precaution” against the outbreak of coronavirus …
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
SXSW, which was scheduled for March 13-22, has been canceled due to concerns over the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak — - SXSW was canceled after a string of high-profile cancellations including Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. — The conference had been scheduled to take place between March 13 and 22.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Oppo unveils Oppo Watch, its first smartwatch, with 1.91-inch OLED screen, fitness tracking, music playback, available on March 24 in China for ~$215 — Out in China this month for $215 — As repeatedly teased by Oppo itself, Oppo is making a watch called the Oppo Watch, and today it got revealed in full.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Oppo unveils €1,199 Find X2 Pro with 5G, Snapdragon 865, 6.7-inch Quad HD+ 120Hz display, a 10x hybrid zoom camera, and 4,260mAh battery with 65W charging — Even though Oppo isn't as well-known in the US, chances are you might have come across one of its recent tech demos.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Quibi will offer a free 90-day trial for users who sign up before it launches on April 6 with 50 shows and movies; Quibi will cost $4.99 with ads, $7.99 without — Longer than what Disney Plus current offers — Quibi is finally almost here, and in an effort to entice people …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
eBay bans new listings for hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes and surgical masks, including N95 and N100 masks, in the US “effectively immediately” — - EBay issued a notice to sellers Thursday telling them it's banning all listings for N95 and N100 masks, hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes.| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Researchers: Virgin Media's exposed marketing database included 1,100+ records of customer requests to block or unblock websites with porn and extreme “gore” — Records linking accounts to gambling and pornography sites may have been accessed — More than 1,000 records linking …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Sources: Waymo is now valued at more than $30B, after raising $2.25B this week — Windfall pushing Alphabet division above rivals comes at turning point for group — When outside investors lined up this week to pour $2.25bn into Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving technology division, it brought strong validation for a decade of work.| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Beijing Kunlun Tech says it has agreed to sell gay dating app Grindr for about $608M to investor consortium San Vicente Acquisition — (Reuters) - Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd (300418.SZ) said on Friday that it has agreed to sell Grindr LLC, a popular gay dating app it acquired in 2016, for about $608.5 million.| Steven Levy / OneZero : |
Profile of Whitfield Diffie, one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography, which ushered in digital signatures and now underlies the security of ecommerce — Longtime tech journalist Steven Levy's new book, Facebook: The Inside Story, details how Mark Zuckerberg transformed … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
SiLC Technologies raises $12M seed round led by Dell Technologies Capital for its long range lidar sensor — SiLC Technologies, a silicon photonics startup specializing in photonic sensor and 3D imaging applications, today announced that it has closed a $12 million seed financing round.
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| Ross Rubin / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm licenses tech from BASF which relies not only on the shapes of faces but on the detection of live skin itself and may be competitive with Face ID — Qualcomm is betting on a German technology company that analyzes backscatter reflections to defeat face detection spoofs.| Reuters: |
Italian antitrust authority fines Telecom Italia €116M for abusing a dominant position in the broadband market in an attempt to obstruct rivals — MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's competition watchdog said on Friday it had fined former phone monopoly Telecom Italia (TIM) 116 million euros … Sponsor Posts
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