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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan's podcast, which he said had ~190M downloads/month in 2019, will become a Spotify exclusive this year; his YouTube will no longer have full episodes — A massive gain for the platform — Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, a free tool that helps businesses easily list products on their Facebook Page, Instagram profile, Stories, or in ads — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, a new e-commerce feature that allows businesses to easily list their products on Facebook and Instagram.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook will limit offices to 25% occupancy, put people on shifts, and require temperature checks and masks when it reopens workplaces in July — - Company plans to put employees on shifts to reduce numbers — Grab-and-go meals, temperature checks, updated shuttles coming| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian ride-hailing company Ola says it is cutting 1,400 jobs, or 35% of its workforce in the country, as revenue dropped by 95% in the last two months — Ola said on Wednesday it is cutting 1,400 jobs in India, or 35% of its workforce in the home market, as the ride-hailing firm works …
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| Taylor Lyles / The Verge: |
Sony says PlayStation Now has 2.2M subscribers and PlayStation Plus has 41M+ subs; Xbox Game Pass had 10M subs and Xbox Live had 90M active users in April — PlayStation Plus has amassed over 41 million subscribers, too — Sony says 2.2 million people are subscribed to PlayStation Now …
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| Nick Corasaniti / New York Times: |
Profile of the founders of Occupy Democrats, who run a Facebook page employing meme tactics for the left, regularly outperforming pages for Trump and Fox News — Occupy Democrats, a Facebook page that Rafael and Omar Rivero started eight years ago, has emerged as a counterweight to right-wing meme machines.| Ray Kurzweil / Wired: |
Vaccine trials that use AI to rapidly test trillions of possibilities with simulated patients could replace slow and costly human clinical trials — Simulators that can rapidly test trillions of options would accelerate the slow and costly process of human clinical trials.
Tweets: @wired, @nxthompson, @mlipsitch, and @maartenvsmeden
| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
A look at Crucible, the first of two major titles scheduled for release this year from Amazon Games, shows that Amazon is finally serious about video games — An intriguing blend of MOBA and battle royale. — 4m ago — Amazon does seemingly everything.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Productivity tool Notion's free tier gets unlimited notes and blocks — There's never been a better time to check out the collaborative note-taking app — Notion, the workspace and note-taking app, just became much more appealing to individual users. The company said today that people …
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| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Helsinki-based Happeo, which offers intranet, enterprise social network, and collaboration software to companies, raises €10.9M Series A led by INKEF Capital — Today Finnish startup Happeo, an employee communications platform, announces having raised approximately €10.9 million … | Paul Ford / Wired: |
Video chat tools like Zoom do well to emulate workspaces but lack flexibility in creative presentation and miss the subtleties of in-person interactions — Software tools simulate work. They should really let us put on a show. — Did you find yourself, over these last fascinating and upsetting weeks, always on camera?
Tweets: @jaycuthrell
| Reuters: |
Xiaomi beats estimates with Q1 revenue of $7B, up 13.6% YoY, thanks to sales of its higher-priced 5G models in China as well as growing sales overseas — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Xiaomi Corp reported a 13.6% rise in first-quarter revenue on Wednesday, beating estimates, as the Chinese smartphone maker sold … | Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
The SD Association unveils new SD 8.0 spec, with SD Express card speeds reaching 3940 MB/s with PCIe 4.0 support, roughly four times the speed of current cards — As resolutions and file sizes continue to grow, it's important for storage —especially removable storage—to keep up …
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| New York Times: |
Starship Technologies' fleet of delivery robots helped residents of Milton Keynes, a small city of 270K in UK, with grocery deliveries during the lockdown — Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries.
Tweets: @mit_csail, @dintersmith, @eringriffith, and @nytimes
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity insurance startup Coalition raises $90M Series C led by Valor Equity Partners at a $800M pre-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $125M — This morning, Coalition announced that it has closed a $90 million Series C. The funding comes around a year …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments — The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021, executives tell Axios, and it is building out a proprietary first-party data platform.| Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asian Review: |
Zoom no longer lets individual users sign up for free in China, reportedly due to regulatory requirements; only paid accounts can host meetings — Company under scrutiny from both US and China as trade tensions flare anew — PALO ALTO, U.S. — California-based videoconferencing company Zoom … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
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Windows Blog, Thurrott, The Verge, Pureinfotech, Microsoft Docs, and MSPoweruser
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Truework, which helps banks, rental agencies, and others securely check employment details of applicants online, raises $30M Series B led by Activant Capital — As organizations look for safe and efficient ways of running their services in the new global paradigm of increased social distancing … Sponsor Posts
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