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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Sources: IBM is laying off thousands of workers across five US states including North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, and New York — - Thousands of IBM workers in North America likely affected — Newly unemployed staff fear finding another job in a recession
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
With Spotify owning shows, a podcast player, tools to make new shows, and selling ads, the podcasting world is now divided into an open and a closed ecosystem — The Joe Rogan deal makes the company's big ambitions known — In what's likely the biggest deal ever for a single podcast …
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Sources: Apple is seeking an executive to lead its original podcasts effort and is acquiring podcasts that would tie into shows on its TV+ service — - Company is seeking executive to lead development of new shows — Apple faces threat from Spotify's growing podcast ambitions| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Court rules that turning on a phone to view its lockscreen without unlocking it qualifies as searching the phone and thus would generally need a warrant — Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too. — Smartphones are a rich data trove not only for marketers but also for law enforcement.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Zuckerberg: Facebook could get to about half of staff working remotely permanently in 5-10 years and will be the “most forward-leaning company on remote work” — In January, as reports about the spread of a novel coronavirus emerged from China, Mark Zuckerberg began to prepare for a potential pandemic.
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook says it will let many of its 50,000 employees work from home permanently, “aggressively” open up remote hiring, first in the USA, then elsewhere — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the social media giant will start allowing many of its 50,000 employees …
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Netflix says it will ask customers who have been inactive for a year or more if they want to keep their subscriptions, canceling accounts that take no action — - Netflix will start asking customers who haven't used its platform in the past year if they want to keep their subscriptions.
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Internal memo: Magic Leap has raised $350M from new and existing investors and is withdrawing notices laying off remaining employees — Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz told employees Thursday his struggling augmented reality firm had raised $350 million from existing and new investors.
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| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Report: the official COVID-19 contact tracing app for North Dakota is sharing location data with Foursquare and an advertising ID with Google — The official COVID-19 contact tracing app for the state of North Dakota, designed to detect whether people have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus …
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| Yujie Xue / South China Morning Post: |
Report: Chinese investors in US tech companies closed 11 deals worth $400M in Q1, down from 18 deals worth $1.8B in Q1 2019, as China looks to EU for investment — There were 11 deals for Chinese investments into US tech companies in the first quarter, compared to 18 in the same period …
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| David Jagneaux / UploadVR: |
Facebook says its $1,000 enterprise-edition Oculus Quest, which sells as part of the Oculus for Business platform, is now available for companies to purchase — Today Facebook announced that its enterprise-edition Oculus Quest that sells for $1,000 as part of its Oculus for Business platform …
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| Bloomberg: |
Interviews shed light on the strained relationship between Masayoshi Son and Vision Fund leader Rajeev Misra, who some say has created a divisive workplace — Son's support tested after $18 billion in writedowns, clashes with internal rivals — In early March, before the coronavirus pandemic triggered … | George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Comparing Nvidia's new A100 Ampere chip with competition from Intel and GraphCore in terms of performance, economics, and software — Now that the dust from Nvidia's unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let's take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
KKR to invest $1.5B in Reliance Jio for a 2.32% stake; this is Reliance Jio's fifth major raise in just as many weeks — Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Platforms has agreed to sell 2.32% stake to U.S. equity firm KKR in what is the fifth major investment in the top Indian telecom firm in just as many weeks.| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Twitter's plan to let users restrict tweet replies may curb some harassment, but will allow some users to shut down criticism and will reduce random engagement — This could make the platform less toxic — and less magical — The Twitter “reply guy” — a user, usually male …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Deel, a payroll service for remote workers, raises $14M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — - Deel, a payroll platform for remote workers, has secured a $14 million series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, sources told CNBC exclusively. As part of the investment … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Statespace, whose software recreates the physics of popular FPS games to help players work on their weaknesses, raises $15M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — Statespace has today raised a $15 million Series A financing round led by Khosla, with partner Samir Kaul joining the board.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces new features for Workplace, including a drop-in video call feature that mirrors Rooms, enhanced tools for Portal, and more — One of the biggest technology takeaways of the last couple of months has been that organizations need confident, wide-ranging digital strategies to stay afloat …
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