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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 — This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Twitter applied its “manipulated media” label for the first time, after a clipped video of Joe Biden was tweeted by a White House official, retweeted by Trump — It's the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos
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| 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.| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it will start selling its cashier-less store tech used in Amazon Go, dubbed Just Walk Out, to other companies — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday is set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less convenience stores to other retailers, the company told Reuters.
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Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, affecting equities, crypto, and options trading, amid COVID-19 uncertainty — Free stock trading pioneer Robinhood is experiencing another major outage, keeping clients on the sidelines of a major day for stocks.
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| 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
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| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
Chinese government data shows Apple sold under 500,000 iPhones in February as coronavirus outbreak halves demand; total smartphone shipments dropped 54.7% YoY — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) sold fewer than half a million smartphones in China in February, government data showed on Monday …
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Misinformation about coronavirus persists on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, despite the companies' efforts to stop misleading posts by working with health orgs — Secret labs. Magic cures. Government plots. Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information …
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| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
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.
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| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Argent, a cryptocurrency wallet for controlling digital assets and identity, raises $12M Series A led by Paradigm, a Sequoia Capital-backed fund — London-based Argent, a smart wallet for controlling digital assets and identity, has raised a $12 million Series A led by Paradigm …
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
DoNotPay launches a free Chrome extension that uses cookies to let users share accounts for services like Netflix without revealing passwords — DoNotPay is a startup that seems to delight in corporate trolling. Among its patchwork of services are a virtual credit card … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
In an internal memo, Tim Cook outlines measures Apple is implementing in response to COVID-19, says office employees in all affected regions can work remotely — - Apple CEO outlines work from home, other steps in new memo — ‘This is a challenging moment’, Apple CEO tells employees
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