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Dorsey says he's moving $1B of his Square equity, ~28% of his wealth, to Start Small LLC to fund COVID-19 relief, to later focus on girls' health and education — I'm moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl's health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: https://docs.google.com/...
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| Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
Zoom gives updates on its progress with privacy and security: appointing a CISO Council and Advisory Board and bringing on Alex Stamos as an outside advisor — As I mentioned in my message on April 1, Zoom has seen tremendous growth and new use cases emerge over the past few weeks …
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Sources: Airbnb is paying 10%+ interest on the $1B funding it raised on Monday; investors were offered free stock warrants based on an $18B valuation — Airbnb's new investors get free warrants based on company valuation of $18 billion — Airbnb Inc. agreed to pay its new investors interest …
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SimilarWeb and Apptopia: amid quarantines, Americans increasingly use online platforms on computers, not smartphones; Nextdoor.com traffic is up 73% from Jan. — Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, with movie theaters closed and no restaurants to dine in, Americans have been spending more of their lives online.| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says Meet, its teleconferencing tool, is adding 2M new users a day and logged 2B minutes of video calls in March with daily usage up 25x from January — As people around the world hunker down in their homes to slow the spread of COVID-19, one technology has emerged as a lifeline to the outside world: video chat.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Study of 225 pieces of COVID-19-related content rated false or misleading: 59% remain up with no warning label on Twitter, 27% on YouTube, and 24% on Facebook — Facebook and YouTube do better, but still leave some misinformation up — More than half of the misinformation …
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| Adam Cancryn / Politico: |
Sources: White House team led by Jared Kushner has reached out to health tech companies about creating a real-time surveillance system for tracking COVID-19 — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's task force has reached out to a range of health technology companies about creating … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Tech giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google are scrambling to create digital internships for this summer, as offices remain shuttered during the pandemic — Go deeper — By Sara Fischer, Stef W. Kight — Campaigns turn to texting as coronavirus spreads| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
UK's NCSC and US DHS publish a list of 2,500 COVID-19-related threats they are tracking, including malicious websites and email addresses linked to scams — If you weren't already taking the rise of coronavirus-based cybercrime seriously, take note. A rare joint alert has gone out from U.S … | Luke O'Brien / HuffPost: |
Investigation details facial recognition company Clearview AI's ties to the alt-right, including hiring employees with deep links to far-right extremists — Clearview AI, which has alarmed privacy experts, hired several far-right employees, a HuffPost investigation found.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Valve releases data showing rise in games making $10K during first two weeks after release but analysis suggests ~80% of games earn under $5K during same period — Valve offers a peek behind the sales curtain, telling an incomplete and mixed story. — It has been roughly two years …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will make all of its events digital until July 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic — Build 2021 will likely be a digital event — Microsoft is planning to make all of its internal and external events digital-only until July 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Google will require a Virtual A/B partition setup on new Android 11 devices, paving way for simpler and seamless background updates, similar to Chrome OS — With Android 7.0 Nougat, Google introduced a partition scheme designed to speed up software updates.
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Sila, which is developing a payments and banking API on top of the Ethereum blockchain, raises $7.7M seed led by Madrona Venture Group and Oregon Venture Fund — Fintech is white hot these days, with major acquisitions and funding rounds galore. It's also a relatively new space …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Netflix now lets parents remove specific titles and filter shows out based on their ratings, in both the designated kids portal and the general section — Making profile accounts for kids even more specific — Netflix is rolling out a series of new tools that parents can use to filter … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel, Mozilla, and Creative Commons join the Open COVID Pledge, an effort to temporarily make IP freely available to anyone developing tech to fight COVID-19 — A consortium of organizations including Intel, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have joined the Open COVID Pledge …
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Tweets: @kimzetter and @benadida
| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Microsoft says it is pausing new hires except in some “strategic areas”, citing uncertainty due to the pandemic; sources: the company is still hiring for Azure — - Microsoft is “temporarily pausing recruitment” for some roles amid uncertainty caused by the coronavirus crisis, the company confirmed Tuesday.
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| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Swedish logistics tech startup Instabox, which lets e-commerce retailers offer same-day delivery through its delivery lockers, raises €36M at a €100M valuation — Swedish logistics tech company Instabox has closed a €36 million financing round, boosting the business' valuation to €100 million.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
FireEye details how zero-days were exploited worldwide from 2012 to 2019, says it was able to link the use of 55 zero-day exploits to state-sponsored operations — The collection of countries using those secret hacking techniques has expanded far beyond the usual suspects.
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FireEye, SecurityWeek, ComputerWeekly.com, Dark Reading, and Threatpost
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Amazon to suspend Amazon Shipping, its delivery service for Amazon Marketplace sellers that was being beta-tested in some US cities, with last pickups on June 5 — - Amazon told sellers on Tuesday that in June it would pause its in-house shipping service that was being beta tested in a few US cities.| Dan Grover: |
Overview of how apps from Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and others are helping users in China check their exposure, get care, and more during the COVID-19 outbreak — Summary: China's apps played a pivotal role in supporting some of the most effective tactics the country used in fighting Covid-19 …
Tweets: @xuhulk, @theosint, @scholars_stage, @herlifeinpixels, @native_mode, and @dangrover
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Analysis of GoDaddy data shows how small-scale digital entrepreneurs, part-time or full, generate significant economic spillover benefits across US communities — A new study examines the millions of small digital businesses. They could help many communities weather the economic blow from the coronavirus outbreak.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @asu_ctds, and @stevelohr
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