Organizers announce that this year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed from March to summer amid COVID-19 concerns
Sony, EA, Activision Blizzard, Unity, and Epic Games have all withdrawn due to COVID-19 concerns — This year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed …
Amazon restricts employee travel in US, Google restricts travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea as a Google employee in Zurich is diagnosed with COVID-19
A Google employee in Switzerland has a confirmed case of the virus — Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy …
Union of Concerned Scientists study: ride-hailing trips today result in an estimated 69% more climate pollution on average than the trips they displace
Union of Concerned Scientists recommends more electric cars and pooled trips — Uber and Lyft have weathered criticism about pollution …
Microsoft adds productivity features to Cortana, drops consumer skills including music, connected home, and third-party skills in the upcoming Windows 10 update
Cortana is converting to a productivity assistant, meaning Cortana skills are on the way out. — What you need to know
Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year
would tax options at vest, rather than at exercise. Many employees would be unable to pay — forcing them either to give up options or take out loans. https://www.wsj.com/... Liz Wessel / @lizwessel : ...
A look at top Democratic presidential candidates' stances on tech issues like breaking up Big Tech, digital privacy, encryption and backdoors, and Section 230
- Voters from 14 states and one U.S. territory will decide which Democratic candidate to support for the presidential nomination on Super Tuesday.
Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers
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Elementor, a WordPress-focused graphical website building platform, raises $15M from Lightspeed Venture Partners
WordPress has become so ubiquitous, it's easy to forget that it still drives a huge ecosystem of startups that build tools and services around the platform.
Sources: Amazon to launch a food delivery service in India in March, charging restaurants commissions of 10-15%, about half of what Swiggy and Zomato charge
The food delivery platform is open to own employees for now, pilots underway across five high-density pin codes in Bengaluru
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets
Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Tweets: @andrew__reed , @dhaliwas , @vcbrags , @vcbrags...
Sources: Elliott Management has taken a “sizable” stake in Twitter, nominated four directors to Twitter's board, and seeks to replace CEO Jack Dorsey
the corporate right —is taking over everything. Wow. Singer's Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey https://www.bloomberg.com/... Isn't Singer the one who started the Steele Dossier for either C...
eMarketer: in the US, TikTok is expected to grow 21.9% YoY to 45.4M MAU in 2020, down from 97.5% growth in its breakout year of 2019
More than 20% of social users will use TikTok this year … After nearly doubling its US user base last year, growth for TikTok will slow in the coming years …
FCC proposes fines of $91M for T-Mobile, $57M for AT&T, $48M for Verizon, and $12M for Sprint for sharing customers' location information with outside parties
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios :
K Health, whose AI-powered primary care app lets patients in 47 US states chat with doctors, raises $48M Series C, bringing its total raised to $97M
K Health, a primary care consultant powered by artificial intelligence, announced this morning it has raised a $48 million Series C round.
Facebook says its 3D Photos feature, which retroactively converts 2D photos to 3D using neural nets, now works on photos taken with single-lens cameras
here's how it works Karissa Bell / Engadget : Facebook's 3D photos no longer require portrait mode Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : Facebook taps AI to turn almost any 2D photo into a 3D image Stephen...
Indian phone-maker Lava International says it has signed an agreement for a $90M investment over the next three years with Global Emerging Markets Group
GEM group will make the investment over the next 36 months for through a ‘Share Subscription Facility’ which will allow the company …
ZoomInfo, which operates a cloud market intelligence platform for sales and marketing teams, files to raise around $500M in an IPO
ZoomInfo Technologies is the latest heavily funded SaaS player to publicly file for an IPO. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
Investigation: several staff members of the Chan-Zuckerberg family office have made allegations of assault, sexual harassment, and more, against other staff
and sources were also critical of the culture of Iconiq, the ultra-exclusive wealth management firm Zuckerberg uses to manage his household affairs. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitte...
An excerpt from the book “The Hacker and the State”, which includes details about North Korea's hacking campaigns against banks across the world
Ben Buchanan / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @nicolas_veron , @harvard_press , and @buchananben Tweets: @wired : North Korean hackers have broken into financial institutions all over the world. But they d...
A look at the TranscribersOfReddit subreddit where 3,186 volunteers write elaborate transcriptions of memes, videos, and images to make the site more accessible
Alex Lee / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : Since the subreddit launched three years ago, r/TranscribersOfReddit's 3,186 volunteer transcribers have completed almost 100,000 transcriptions and...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.