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Jack Dorsey tells Twitter staff they can work from home indefinitely even after the pandemic passes; policy won't apply to some jobs requiring physical presence — Some Twitter employees will never return to their office. — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees on Tuesday telling …
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| Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber's made an offer to acquire Grubhub, with a deal possible as soon as this month, sending Grubhub's stock up 35%+; Uber's stock is up 5%+ — Uber Technologies Inc. has made an offer to acquire food-delivery startup Grubhub Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
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| Robert Stevens / Decrypt: |
Chat app Telegram says it's abandoning its TON blockchain project, after the SEC challenged the legality of its $1.7B ICO and delayed the network's launch — Telegram, the operator of the 400 million strong messenger app, today announced that it has given up on its upcoming blockchain network …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook is quietly helping to launch American Edge, a political advocacy group in Washington, to battle regulators trying to rein in the tech industry — The organization, called American Edge, arrives at a time when the industry is facing withering antitrust scrutiny in Washington.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram adds bulk comment deletion and control for who can mention or tag you on iOS, to help fight bullying; the ability to pin comments is being tested — Instagram is rolling out some changes today to keep the platform a more positive place for users.
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has extended banking services to two bitcoin exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini Trust, the first time it has accepted crypto clients — JPMorgan Chase has taken on two well-known bitcoin exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini Trust, as banking customers, say people familiar with the matter …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Profile and behind-the-scenes story of Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, who helped stop the WannaCry attack and pled guilty to selling the Kronos banking malware — At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Hackers say they have breached a law firm used by Lady Gaga, Drake, and others, obtaining 756GB of data, including contracts; firm confirms an attack occurred — A law firm used by A-list stars including Rod Stewart, Lil Nas X and Robert De Niro has been hacked.
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| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Smartphone shipments in China rose 17% YoY in April according to government data, suggesting a potential return to normalcy for the consumer hardware market — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Smartphone shipments from China's factories to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same month a year ago …
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Apple unveils an update to Logic Pro X with Live Loops, a redesigned sampling workflow, and new beat-making tools — New Creative Tools for Electronic Music Production Make Logic Pro X 10.5 a Breakthrough Release for Musicians and Producers — Cupertino, California …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple's over-ear headphones, called “AirPods Studio”, will feature head and neck detection sensors, automated audio channel routing, and more — We've been hearing about Apple's upcoming over-ear headphones for some time, with evidence from multiple sources pointing to the official launch later this year.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook says it took action on 9.6M pieces of hate speech content in Q1, up by 3.6M, and AI now proactively detects 88.8% of it, up from 80.2% last quarter — Facebook sheds light on its new AI-powered moderation — Facebook on Monday released a new report detailing how it uses a combination …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Huawei's P30 Pro, its flagship from before the 2019 US restrictions, gets rereleased at a discounted price and still offers Google's apps and services — Super Huawei P30 Pro Turbo HD remix — Huawei is rereleasing its flagship phone from last year as the P30 Pro “New Edition.”
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Kids now allows parents to view kids' listening history and block individual tracks and expands to Germany and Japan — Spotify is expanding the capabilities of its parental controls on its Spotify Kids app, aimed at children ages 3 and up on a parent's Spotify Premium Family plan.
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| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Waymo says it's raised another ~$750M, expanding the size of its first external investment round to $3B — Waymo said Tuesday that it has raised another roughly $750 million for its self-driving technology, expanding the size of its first external investment round to $3 billion.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based PlayPlay, which develops a video creation tool for marketing teams, raises €10M Series A led by Balderton Capital — PlayPlay, the Paris-based startup behind a video creation tool that enables comms, marketing and social media teams to produce high-quality video content … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SiMa.ai, which is building ultra low power software and chips for machine learning for edge computing, raises $30M Series A led by Dell Technologies — Krishna Rangasayeem, founder and CEO, at SiMa.ai, has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Twitter says it will add labels and warning messages to tweets about COVID-19 with misleading or disputed content and plans to expand the labels to other topics — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19 …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
UpKeep, which builds mobile-first tools for maintenance and operations teams, raises $36M Series B led by Insight Partners — UpKeep, a mobile-first platform for maintenance and operations collaboration, has today announced the close of a $36 million Series B financing round.
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Sources: Dingdong Maicai raises $300M led by General Atlantic in a round that values the Shanghai-based online grocer at $2B — Yingzhi Yang, Kane Wu — * Dingdong Maicai raises $300 million in fresh funding -sources — * Dingdong's monthly active users up 14% in Jan amid outbreak
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Secondary shares marketplace Forge agrees to acquire rival Sharespost in a $160M cash-and-stock deal; Forge has raised $109M to date, Sharespost has raised $38M — Even amid a pandemic, there's a race on to create a powerful, global private securities marketplace where private shares …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel Capital commits $132M to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design — Intel today announced that Intel Capital, its global investment organization, committed a total of $132 million to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Sleeper, a social and fantasy sports site that's expanding into esports, raises $20M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total raised to $27.3M — Sleeper, which has developed a social and gaming platform for sports, has raised a $20 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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| Elise Favis / Washington Post: |
A look at Nookazon, a fan-made online retailer for trading Animal Crossing in-game items that claims 270K DAUs, over 9M listings, and 7M page views per day — Daniel Luu, a 25-year-old software engineer from Maryland, woke up one morning to find hundreds of thousands of people scouring his newly launched website Nookazon.| Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review: |
Iceland's contract tracing app has ~38% adoption, the highest in the world, among its population of 364,000, but its impact on containing COVID-19 seems small — The country has the highest penetration of any automated contact tracing app in the world, but one senior figure says it “wasn't a game changer.”
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Tweets: @techreview, @ckoever, @marcelsalathe, @adamvaughan_uk, @thomasforth, @covidperspectiv, and @techreview
| Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: |
TD Ameritrade-backed ErisX launches the first Ethereum futures trading platform in the US authorized by regulators — Ethereum has taken another big step into the regulated financial world. — ErisX, a US-based digital asset trading platform backed by TD Ameritrade, today launched trading for Ethereum … Sponsor Posts
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