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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Shortly after Basecamp debuted its email service, HEY, it says its next iOS app update was rejected because Apple wasn't getting its cut of subscription revenue — Right around the time the team at Basecamp was launching their Hey email service to the public on Monday, Zach Waugh …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Mark Zuckerberg / USA Today: |
Facebook launches Voting Information Center for accurate election information and tools for voter registration, aims to help register 4M people via its apps — The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook and Instagram will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday; the feature will roll out to all US users over the next few weeks — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.
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| Aaron Holmes / Business Insider: |
Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue — - Google is cracking down on two right-wing outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Graphika report details a Russia-based influence campaign, known as Secondary Infektion, that ran over 6 years and 300 sites, but failed to win a large audience — Group known as Secondary Infektion used multiple languages, burner accounts to circumvent attempts to detect it
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Boston Dynamics says Spot, its quadruped robot, is now available to businesses in the US as part of a developer kit for $74,500 — Boston Dynamics today opened commercial sales of Spot, its quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. Businesses can purchase …
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| Bloomberg: |
Being a Black CEO in Silicon Valley can be humiliating, from being advised to have a white wingman in meetings, to being judged on a different rubric by VCs — Will Hayes has grown accustomed to an awkward start to business meetings. On numerous occasions, venture capitalists would confuse Hayes … | Bloomberg: |
Apple's head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith, who joined Apple in 2017, is leaving — - Apple VP of Diversity and Inclusion Smith had joined in 2017 — Company planning $100 million initiative to promote equality — Apple Inc.'s head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith is leaving the iPhone company.
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9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, and CNET
Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @markgurman
| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump admin official says US DOJ to propose limiting Section 230 legal protections for online platforms like Facebook and Twitter — The action follows President Trump's executive order seeking to weaken broad immunity enjoyed by Facebook, Twitter and other platforms| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Robert Farkas, co-founder of Centra Tech, a celebrity-backed crypto startup, pled guilty to securities and wire fraud after raising $25M+ in a fraudulent ICO — Robert Joseph Farkas, the co-founder of crypto startup Centra Tech, which raised more than $25 million in an initial coin offering … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
San Francisco's district attorney sues DoorDash for allegedly misclassifying workers as contractors instead of employees despite California's AB5 law — The largest food delivery service in the US is accused of misclassifying workers — DoorDash, the high-flying food delivery startup …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Bose is shutting down its AR program, saying its technology couldn't be commercialized as planned, with current AR apps ceasing to function within 30 days — Bose has become the latest company to throw in the towel on immersive computing, shutting down its ambitious Bose AR program.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q4 revenue of $10.44B, down 6% YoY, missing expectations of $10.65B, cloud and on-premises license revenue fell 22% to $1.96B — - Revenue declined more than the company had predicted in the quarter — The company won business from video-calling software provider Zoom in the quarter.
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PR Newswire, coinspeaker.com, MarketWatch, and Barron's Online
Tweets: @jordannovet, @danielnewmanuv, @lamonicabuzz, and @jordannovet
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
ConsenSys launches a pilot “staking-as-a-service” tool, with customers including Binance, ahead of proof-of-stake tech being rolled out with Ethereum 2.0 — Ethereum development house ConsenSys is being backed by heavy hitters like Binance and Huobi to test its new …
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ConsenSys, coinspeaker.com, Cointelegraph, SludgeFeed, Crypto Briefing, and ihodl.com
Tweets: @coindesk, @sightpm, @koeppelmann, @vladzamfir, and @thevladcostea
| Reuters: |
Sources: TikTok's owner ByteDance had revenue of ~$5.64B in the January-March quarter, up 130% YoY — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Beijing-based ByteDance, the privately owned operator of short video app TikTok, booked around 40 billion yuan ($5.64 billion) in revenue for the January-March quarter …
Tweets: @alex
| Washington Post: |
CIA report: security was so lax at the time of the Vault 7 breach that if WikiLeaks hadn't published its trove, CIA may have never known they were compromised — The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's …
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| David Cohen / Adweek: |
LinkedIn outlines steps to address racial inequality within the company and on its site, following CEO's apology for employees' Black Lives Matter comments — Internally, the professional network is focused on diversity, inclusion, retention and development
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Headless CMS company Contentful raises $80M Series E led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total raised to $158.3M — Headless CMS company Contentful today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series E funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst …
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Pagaya, which uses AI and big-data analytics to manage institutional money, raises $102M Series D, bringing its total raised to $221.9M — Artificial intelligence financial technology startup Pagaya Technologies Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $102 million in new funding partly to move into new asset classes.
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
China's largest gay dating app Blued, which has more than 6M users on its network, files for Nasdaq IPO, aims to raise at least $50M — Plan for Nasdaq listing comes despite rising scrutiny of China issues — HONG KONG — The operator of China's largest gay dating app, Blued …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Nearly a week after its removal from Google's Play Store, Chinese TikTok clone Zynn has been removed from Apple's App Store following claims of stolen videos — The app was taken off Google's Play Store last week following reports of plagiarism — Zynn, the Chinese video sharing app that's …
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