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| Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
Zoom apologizes for security failures, says it has 200M+ DAUs vs. 10M in Dec., and plans to freeze development of new features to focus on security and privacy — Whether you are a global corporation that needs to maintain business continuity, a local government agency working to keep …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple now lets some video streaming apps, like Amazon Prime Video, use their own payment methods for in-app purchases on Apple devices, avoiding Apple's 30% cut — Apple Inc. has relaxed a controversial policy that took a 30% cut of payments when video apps on its platform sold TV shows and movies.
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| The Information: |
Sources: YouTube is planning to release Shorts, a rival to TikTok inside YouTube's main app, by the end of the year — YouTube is planning to release a rival to TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, by the end of the year, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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| Ben Bergman / dot.LA: |
An inside account of how Bird laid off 406 employees in two minutes via a Zoom webinar; employees say they were locked out of their computers during the meeting — Last Friday morning, 406 Bird employees - who had been working from home for two weeks because of the coronavirus and bleary-eyed …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
All-in-one productivity tool Notion, which helps people organize and track their work, raises $50M from Index Ventures and others at a $2B valuation — While many start-ups grapple with the fallout from the pandemic, this San Francisco company raised more cash to survive.
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| Jason Aycock / Seeking Alpha: |
Snap says the time users spent calling on its app increased by 50%+ from February to March, and that Snaps between friends reached all-time high in that period — Snapchat (NYSE:SNAP) is reporting increased engagement over the past few weeks amid the COVID-19 pandemic - much of that coming between close friends, it says.
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
COVID-19 has negatively affected tech startups big and small, leading to layoffs, halted IPOs and hiring, slashed prices for products, and bankruptcies — Dozens have laid off thousands, slashed costs and changed their businesses to try to survive the pandemic. All that may not work.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Anthony Levandowski files motion to force Uber into arbitration, alleging Uber must shoulder $179M judgment against him as part of its 2016 indemnity agreement — Anthony Levandowski, the star self-driving car engineer who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit, has filed a motion … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Collibra, which provides tools to manage, warehouse, store, and analyze data troves, raises $112.5M at a post-money valuation of $2.3B — GDPR and other data protection and privacy regulations — as well as a significant (and growing) number of data breaches and exposées …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Some couples, faced with orders to shelter in place to avoid COVID-19, are getting married at home with friends and relatives watching on Zoom — As the coronavirus pandemic continues, socially distanced weddings are moving online — The day — her day — was finally here.
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
FCC will vote on a proposal to allow the entire 6 GHz band to be available for unlicensed use, citing the increase in Wi-Fi demand; vote is set for April 23 — The Federal Communications Commission announced a potentially significant step for Wi-Fi today, with plans for an April 23 vote …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank-backed online lender Kabbage suspended credit lines to its small business clients in the past week without notice — - Small-business lender Kabbage said to slash credit lines to $0 — Online lender raised $250 million from SoftBank in 2017
Tweets: @mayazi, @jasonlk, and @sunchartist
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
How Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is supporting its clients' transitions from in-person dining to takeout and delivery services — - Toast was valued at almost $5 billion in February, coming off a year of 109% revenue growth.Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Popular early internet meme site YTMND has been resurrected with the help of fans, a year after it went down — Almost a year ago, the popular early internet meme machine YTMND.com went down. According to Max Goldberg, the site's creator, one of the site's databases was running on eight year old hardware.
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon is investigating claims of its contractors sleeping in “subhuman” conditions on makeshift beds in a Philippine call center due to travel restrictions — Claims workers left sleeping in close quarters on office floors as a result of travel ban| Tammy Lovell / MobiHealthNews: |
London-based Air Doctor, which helps travelers connect with local doctors for non-emergency conditions in 42 countries, raises $7.8M Series A — Funds will be used to expand further and strengthen the startup's medical network. — London-based startup Air Doctor, has raised a Series …
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| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Akamai, and Netflix join MANRS, an Internet Society-supported initiative aimed at bolstering internet's routing security — Filtering, anti-spoofing, coordination, validation to prevent crooks, spies hijacking victims' connections| Olivia Poh / The Business Times: |
Doctor Anywhere, a Singapore-based telemedicine startup, raises $27M Series B, says it will use the funds to expand into Malaysia and the Philippines — LOCAL telemedicine startup Doctor Anywhere on Tuesday announced it has raised US$27 million in a Series B round led by Square Peg, EDBI and IHH Healthcare.Sponsor Posts
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