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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M — Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
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| Amanda Meade / The Guardian: |
In response to Australian regulator, Facebook says it will not pay for shared news links and that not having them at all would not significantly impact business — Social media giant rejects ACCC proposal, saying it could cut out news completely without any significant impact on its business
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank has invested $500M+ into Credit Suisse supply-chain finance funds that then made big bets on the debt of struggling SoftBank-backed startups — Japanese conglomerate engages in circular flow of financing to Vision Fund start-ups — SoftBank has quietly poured more than $500m …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
GitHub CEO says company is working to replace the name “master” for the default version of source code repositories with a more neutral term — GitHub getting on board legitimizes movement aimed at removing racially-charged language from software.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
ByteDance says it's shutting down two of its apps in India, Vigo Lite and Vigo Video, the latter of which reportedly had 4M MAUs, urging users to move to TikTok — Chinese internet giant ByteDance has announced plans to discontinue two of its apps in India, its biggest overseas market, and urged users to move to TikTok.
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| Nathan Baschez / Divinations: |
Apple's efforts in health amount to a new OS, a bottleneck that all healthcare players, from providers to device makers, must integrate with to get distribution — Apple is building an operating system for health — This essay was co-authored by Rob Litterst and Nathan Baschez
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| Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal, Square, others make some businesses wait for weeks to access funds, to protect themselves against the rise of disputed transactions during the pandemic — More people are demanding refunds for things bought before the pandemic. PayPal, Square and others are trying to protect themselves … | David Ingram / NBC News: |
US efforts to deploy COVID-19 contact tracing apps have fallen flat, as most states retreat from earlier interest and the few with an app struggle with adoption — At a briefing this week, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy touted his state's efforts to trace the spread of the coronavirus …
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Boston-based Duck Creek Technologies, a software provider for insurers, raises $230M ahead of a planned IPO — - Investors include Kayne Anderson Rudnick, Whale Rock Capital — Insurance software maker announced filing last year for IPO — Duck Creek Technologies … | Brian Fung / CNN: |
As Microsoft and Amazon push for federal regulation of facial recognition, an overview of related local laws that have been passed and tech lobbying efforts — How facial recognition went from bad TV to Big Brother — (CNN)In a matter of days, there was a sea change with one of the most cutting-edge …
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Boston-based Appfire, which has over 60 apps used by enterprises to enhance collaboration tools like Atlassian's Jira and Confluence, raises $49M — Appfire, a Boston, MA-based provider of apps for software development teams, raised $49M in strategic funding. — Silversmith Capital Partners made the investment.| Jack Bandy / Mac O’Clock: |
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