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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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Facebook will pay $52M in a settlement covering 11,250 content moderators as compensation for mental health issues developed on the job — Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000 — In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce …
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Sources: Uber has been in off and on talks for a year to acquire Grubhub, but the parties remain at odds about price; Grubhub's stock closed up 29.07% today — - Uber has made an offer to buy food delivery company Grubhub, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC Tuesday.
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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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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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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook is quietly helping to launch American Edge, a political advocacy group in DC, to battle regulators who want 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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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.| 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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook says it took action on 9.6M pieces of hate speech content in Q1, up by 3.9M, 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's contact tracing app, which is mandatory to travel on railways, surpasses 100M unique users 41 days after launch — New Delhi's contact-tracing app, called Aarogya Setu, has reached 100 million users in 41 days since its release. A representative at think-tank NITI Aayog told TechCrunch …
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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.”| Apple: |
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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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
The 2016 hit Pokémon Go saw revenue decline in 2017 but returned to growth in 2018 and had its best year in 2019, now with $3B+ in est. lifetime gross revenue — ‘Pokémon Go’ maker crafts plan to become the go-to provider of augmented reality tech
Tweets: @ftreports, @nianticlabs, @objective, @ballmatthew, @dan_rowinski, and @msquinn
| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
Amazon is being asked by AGs from 13 states to provide information on “inadequate” safety measures, sick leave policies, death rates, and more — Amazon.com Inc. is being asked by several U.S. states to provide information about health and safety measures following the death …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Slice, an online ordering platform for small pizzerias, raises $43M Series C in round led by KKR as the company sees increased demand due to COVID-19 — Slice, an online ordering platform designed to help small pizzerias compete with large chains, has raised $43 million in a series C round of funding led by KKR.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adobe data: US e-commerce sales rose 49% in April compared to early March, led by online grocery, up 110%; electronic sales rose 58% and book sales have doubled — Online retailers are seeing Black Friday-like sales due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business.
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| 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.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn adds polls and live video-based events in a focus on more virtual engagement — With a large part of the working world doing jobs from home when possible these days, the focus right now is on how best to recreate the atmosphere of an office virtually, and how to replicate online essential work that used to be done in person.| 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.| 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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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
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