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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person startup, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls, the first acquisition in the company's nine-year history — - Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person start-up in New York, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls.
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| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty” — Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google updates its Lens app for iOS and Android to let users copy and paste some handwritten text to Chrome, read text aloud, and provide information on words — If you handwriting is neat enough — Google has added a very useful feature to Google Lens, its multipurpose object recognition tool.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google brings all of its messaging and communication apps under a single team to be led by Javier Soltero, who is VP and GM of G Suite — Integration isn't on the roadmap, but coherency may be — In October of last year, Google hired Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
A Facebook SDK crash caused iOS apps like TikTok and Venmo to crash on Wednesday, showing the need for Apple to sandbox third-party SDKs from an app's own code — Facebook's near-ubiquitous SDK broke yesterday, taking major mobile apps with it — Sometime around 6:30PM ET on May 6th …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch review: nice display, lovely keyboard, and great performance, but models with 10th-gen Intel CPUs are pricey and it can get hot — I had a feeling I'd be reviewing a new 13-inch MacBook Pro sooner rather than later. When Apple refreshed the MacBook Air back in March …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber leads a $170M investment in Lime, with Bain Capital Ventures, Alphabet, and GV participating, and will transfer its Jump scooter division to Lime — - Uber is leading a $170 million investment round in Lime, the companies announced Thursday. — Uber will transfer its own electric bike …
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecom operator O2 announce a £31B merger in an effort to take on BT, Sky, and Vodafone in the country — The rumors were true: UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecoms operator O2 are to merge, their parent companies confirmed today.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Square launches Online Checkout to let sellers accept card payments without having to build an online store — Square is introducing a new payment tool designed for small businesses looking to rapidly transition to ecommerce. — With billions of people around the world forced to adhere …
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| David Kaye / Just Security: |
Facebook's efforts are laudable, but the Oversight Board does not end debates over online speech or legitimize content moderation choices by other platforms — With the Naming of Oversight Board Members, What Kind of Institution Will This Become? — With Facebook's unveiling of the first 20 …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook will begin to open most of its offices on July 6 but says most employees will be given the choice to continue to work from home through the end of 2020 — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday will announce that most of the company's employees will be given the choice to continue …
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| Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear: |
Smart home company Wink to require users pay a $4.99 monthly subscription fee starting May 13, or device automations and accessibility via app will be disabled — Smart home company Wink has made a surprising and heavily criticized announcement: it will soon charge a monthly subscription fee.
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| New York Times: |
Israeli security company says hackers linked to the Chinese military have used Aria-body, a cyberattack tool, on governments and firms in Australia and SE Asia — An Israeli security company said the hacking software, called Aria-body, had been deployed against governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia.
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| Apple: |
Apple awards $10M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a leader in COVID-19 sample collection kit production — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it is awarding $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a market leader …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Computerworld, Daring Fireball, PYMNTS.com, Fox Business, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, iMore, Neowin, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, and Engadget. Tweets: @tim_cook
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Zoox, which has raised $1B, is in talks with automakers about a potential deal or financing, as the self-driving car startup contemplates a sale — Zoox, one of the most ambitious self-driving car developers that was valued at $2.7 billion in 2018, is contemplating a sale.| Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post: |
Citizen Lab: WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being viewed by Chinese accounts — Research group Citizen Lab finds WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being received by Chinese accounts Findings are likely … | Strategy Analytics: |
Strategy Analytics: global smartwatch shipments grew 20% YoY to 14M in Q1 with Apple Watch maintaining 55% marketshare and Samsung in second place with 15% — BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew 20 percent annually …
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| Jules Wang / Android Police: |
Google Authenticator now lets users transfer accounts between devices — The Google Authenticator app has undergone its first facelift since 2017, making the jump from version 5 to 5.10. But the visual makeover — including a much-needed adaptation to newer phones' aspect ratios … | Kate Conger / New York Times: |
In a letter, Democratic senators ask Amazon if it retaliated against whistle-blowers by firing four employees who raised health concerns about warehouses — Democratic senators sent a letter to the company asking for more details after it fired four employees who raised health concerns about its warehouses.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo reports FY 2019 net profit of $2.43B, up 33.5% YoY, on sales of $12.31B, up 9% YoY; to date, 55.7M Nintendo Switch and Lite consoles have been sold — Nintendo reported that its full-year sales for the fiscal year ended March 31 were $12.31 billion, up 9% from $11.30 billion a year earlier.
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| Charlie Wood / Business Insider: |
Sonos cofounder calls out Spotify CEO's criticism of Apple, says it's “significantly more difficult to work within Spotify's ‘closed’ ecosystem than Apple's” — - The cofounder of smart speaker firm Sonos called out Spotify CEO Daniel Ek for his remarks on Apple's closed ecosystem.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Groove, which provides customer service software for SMBs, raises $12M Series A led by Level Equity — Sales engagement solutions provider Groove today announced that it raised $12 million, which CEO Chris Rothstein says will be used to expand awareness and acceleration adoption of the company's platform.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games says Fortnite has 350M registered players, up from 250M in March 2019; in April, players logged 3.2B hours in the game — More than 3.2 billion hours played in April alone — Epic's Fortnite has more than 350 million registered players, the game developer announced on Wednesday.
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Epic Games' Fortnite, The Guardian, Pocket-lint, GamingBolt, CCN.com, Gizchina, and VG247
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
House antitrust chairman says only Jeff Bezos “expressed reservation” about testifying before Congress after speaking to CEOs of Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook — - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the only chief executive to have “expressed reservation” about appearing … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Internal document reveals Twitch is looking to fund a slate of original, unscripted series that would be live and interactive on dating, sports, music, and more — - Amazon unit will bankroll slate of unscripted series this year — Use of Twitch has exploded during the coronavirus pandemic
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