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Facebook to launch a dedicated gaming app to let users create and watch live game streams, available on Android on Monday and on iOS when Apple approves it — Video games are surging in popularity in the pandemic. So Facebook is rolling out an app designed for creating and watching live gameplay.
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| Nour Haydar / ABC: |
Australia orders the creation of a mandatory code of conduct requiring platforms like Google and Facebook to pay media businesses for news content — The Federal Government has ordered the competition watchdog to develop a mandatory code of conduct to govern commercial dealings between tech giants and news media companies.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook releases initial results of Carnegie Mellon's COVID-19 survey in the US and interactive maps based on de-identified, aggregated data, updated daily — Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook. — As the world fights covid-19 and countries develop plans to reopen …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Cloudflare debuts Is BGP Safe Yet, a site that checks if your ISP has added security protections and filtering that make Border Gateway Protocol less vulnerable — “Is BGP Safe Yet” is a new site that names and shames internet service providers who don't tend to their routing.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK government announces a £250M Future Fund, to provide up to £5M of funding to qualifying high-growth companies, and £750M in loans and grants for R&D by SMBs — After mounting pressure from the U.K. tech startup ecosystem, and much debate, the British government today unveiled plans …
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| Decrypt: |
Hackers steal ~$25M worth of cryptocurrency from Lendf.Me, a dForce-based decentralized lending platform, likely using a well-known exploit of an Ethereum token — DForce, a Chinese decentralized finance protocol, today lost $25 million worth of its customers' cryptocurrency due to a well-known exploit of an Ethereum token.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba says it will invest $28B over the next three years to expand cloud infrastructure such as data centers to extend its cloud services to more countries — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will invest 200 billion yuan ($28 billion) on cloud infrastructure such as datacenters over the next three years …
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Financial Times, Fortune, The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNBC, coinspeaker.com, DealStreetAsia, and Reuters. Tweets: @economictimes
| Sophie Shulman / CTech: |
Amid the pandemic, some Israeli tech companies have cut salaries by up to 40% and many have turned to repricing stock options as a means of retaining talent — With Israeli tech companies having to cut employees' salaries by up to 40%, many have turned to repricing stock options as a means of maintaining their talent
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Alan, a SaaS startup for the private health insurance market in France, raises €50M Series C led by Temasek, bringing its total raised to €125M — French startup Alan has raised a $54.4 million (€50 million) Series C funding round. Temasek is leading the round with existing investors …
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FinSMEs, EU-Startups, Business Insider, Index Ventures, and Tech.eu
| Mara Hvistendahl / Wired: |
As Amazon and eBay crack down on listings for masks and PPE, suppliers, brokers, and even scammers are reaching out to prospective buyers via LinkedIn — With face masks and other protective gear in short supply, speculators and popup brokers are finding customers on LinkedIn.
Tweets: @wired, @chinalawtransl8, @marahvistendahl, and @ourobororoboruo
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Fundraisers in India and expands partnerships with state governments for WhatsApp and Messenger helplines to tackle coronavirus misinformation — Facebook has expanded Fundraisers to India and is working with several additional state governments to provide authoritative information … | Christina Settimi / Forbes: |
Esports and gaming lifestyle media company FaZe Clan raises $40M in funding led by Jimmy Iovine and mobile e-commerce company NTWRK — E.T.; Adds the value of the raise and additional names of individual investors. — Esports company FaZe Clan announced that it has closed a $40 million round … Sponsor Posts
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