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Nasdaq closes down 7.29% and S&P 500 down 7.6% extending last week's selloff, with Apple plunging 7.9%, Microsoft 6.8%, Facebook 6.4%, and Amazon 5.3% — - Apple lost $100 billion in value on Monday, while Microsoft's market cap plunged by $83.6 billion| CNBC: |
Twitter says Silver Lake will invest $1B as it enters into an agreement with Elliott Management to avoid ousting Dorsey and launches a $2B share buyback program — Twitter has reached a deal with investment firms Elliott Management and Silver Lake, the company announced Monday.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation: popular analytics platform Sensor Tower has used VPN and ad-blocking apps on iOS and Android with 35M+ downloads to quietly collect data on users — Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is testing a feature to allow accounts to cross-post Stories from Facebook to Instagram — Facebook's latest colonization of Instagram has begun. Facebook is testing the option to cross-post Stories to Instagram, instead of just vice-versa. Hopefully, that means the two apps … | Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon tells its employees in the Bay Area, New York, New Jersey, Seattle/Bellevue, and the Lombardy region/Asti province of Italy to work from home until April — Amazon has told employees in two major markets—New York and New Jersey—to stay home until at least the end … | Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, which affected equities, crypto, and options trading until late in the day — Free stock trading pioneer Robinhood is experiencing another major outage, keeping clients on the sidelines of a major day for stocks.| Aaron Gregg / Washington Post: |
Judge's legal opinion unsealed Friday sided with Amazon in lawsuit over Trump's intervention in the JEDI contract process, saying Amazon's key argument is sound — A legal opinion unsealed Friday indicates what the ruling may be in a high-stakes lawsuit over the Pentagon's JEDI cloud| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Sequoia is giving away $21M to Finix, a payments startup it recently funded, as it walks away from deal over alleged conflicts of interest with Stripe — In the world of venture capital, where trust between investors and founders is paramount to the success of both … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Source: Apple will give retail and hourly workers unlimited sick leave if they show COVID-19-like symptoms and will not require a doctor's note for the time off — In addition to offering many of its employees the ability to work from home this week, Apple is also taking steps to ensure … | Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Apple now says it's OK to use disinfectant wipes to clean “nonporous surfaces of your Apple product, such as the display, keyboard, or other exterior surfaces” — - Apple now says it's OK to use Clorox Disinfecting Wipes and other disinfectants to clean your iPhone and other Apple gadgets.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked code shows iPad Smart Keyboards with a trackpad are coming, alongside sophisticated mouse cursor support including multiple cursors and “right clicking” — According to code seen by 9to5Mac, Apple is set to roll out rich system-wide support for mouse cursors with iOS 14.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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Alleged Vault 7-leaker Joshua Schulte is convicted on making false statements to FBI and contempt of court, but jury hung on spying charges; mistrial declared — The judge declared a mistrial after jurors were deadlocked on whether Joshua Schulte stole classified documents to give to WikiLeaks.| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Australia's information commissioner sues Facebook for allegedly breaching the privacy of over 300,000 Australians caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal — Facebook alleged to have committed serious breaches with data collected by This is Your Digital Life app used by Cambridge Analytica for political profiling| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Facebook now has a “partly false information” label on the video of Joe Biden posted by White House staff and shared by Trump, following fact checkers' input — - Facebook labeled a video shared by President Trump as “partly false information” after the Joe Biden campaign put the company on blast.| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
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Sources: Facebook and Twitter have struggled to get specifics about coronavirus disinformation from the State Department, which claims disinformation is rampant — The US State Department has accused Russia of spreading fear, panic, and conspiracy theories about coronavirus online, but little is known about exactly how.
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
UK tax compliance with Zoho Books — The evolving tax landscape in the UK has added an additional responsibility to business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure their choice of accounting software supports compliance …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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