Google says it will not host an in-person I/O event this year, due to coronavirus fears, and will instead offer a series of online events
Following a string of other tech cancellations in recent days, Google just announced that it will not host an in-person I/O 2020 over coronavirus concerns.
Facebook and Twitter pull out of the SXSW conference citing COVID-19 concerns; event organizers say the conference is proceeding as planned
with fewer panels and smaller crowds Tweets: @austin360 : Amazon Studios has canceled events at #SXSW, according to a Variety report https://www.austin360.com/... Jeremy Kaplan / @smashdawg : Intel's ...
Twitter says it strongly encourages its 4,800+ employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus, the first major US company to do so
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India's Supreme Court strikes down central bank's two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country
- RBI banned banking services for digital currencies in 2018 — Start ups, exchanges, industry body challenged RBI's directive — India's Supreme Court struck …
Citing coronavirus concerns, Apple restricts employee travel to Italy and South Korea, following its similar restrictions for China
- Company sends memo to employees about Covid-19 response — Sick employees told to take leave; virtual meetings encouraged
Let's Encrypt discovers a bug in its Certification Authority Authorization code, meaning affected users need to manually force-renew certs to avoid downtime
Let's Encrypt users will need to manually force-renew once to avoid downtime. — On Leap Day, Let's Encrypt announced …
Robinhood says recent outages were caused by an “unprecedented load” on its system and will waive Gold customers' $15 fee for 3 months as initial compensation
It wasn't the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood's massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks.
In an email to staff, Amazon says an employee at its Seattle headquarters has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the affected employee remains in quarantine
An Amazon employee at the company's Seattle headquarters has tested positive for the novel coronavirus spreading across the country …
iPhone maker Foxconn says it expects its Chinese plants to begin operating normally by the end of March, after the disruption caused by the coronavirus
Bloomberg :
Robinhood again suffered a “major outage” on Tuesday, after saying issues were resolved on Monday, and will reach out to users about compensation “case by case”
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Twitter will begin testing Fleets, letting users make posts that disappear after a short period of time, in Brazil, finally using a Stories-like format
On Wednesday, Twitter will begin testing a feature, called “Fleets,” that will allow you to post photos, videos, and text that disappear after a short period of time.
Legal tech startup Atrium is shutting down, laying off 100+ employees; CEO Justin Kan says Atrium failed to be more efficient than a traditional law firm
Justin Kan's hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium is shutting down today after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm.
Tesla installed older chips in some new Model 3 cars sold in China because of supply issues caused by COVID-19, says it will upgrade them for free when it can
Tesla has revealed that it installed older, slower processors in new cars because of supply chain issues caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Facebook says it has developed a more efficient ML tool to spot fake accounts, which has already helped take down 6.6B such accounts in the last year
Even equipped with a brand-new, high-performance algorithm, Facebook is unsure that it will ever win the war against fake accounts.
Quibi says it has closed a second round of financing worth $750M that includes about $400M raised at the end of 2019, bringing its total raised to $1.75B
Closing $750 million financing round brings total raised to $1.75 billion — Short-form video streamer Quibi said it has closed …
KPMG report estimates that more than $9.8B worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen since 2017 because of lax security or poorly written code
- Digital assets are vulnerable to lax security and weak code — Industry custodians ‘have a tremendous opportunity to profit’
Kuo: Apple is working on six products with mini-LED tech including an iMac Pro refresh for Q4 '20, a 7.9" iPad mini coming in 2020, and a 14.1" MacBook Pro
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A look at three startups making credit cards for businesses, Ramp, Divvy, and Brex, which have collectively received over $1B in funding and debt
- Investors have placed big bets on business credit cards — American Express is still handily the largest player
Bytedance launches its Resso “social music streaming app” in India, with a free tier and a premium tier costing $1.35/month on Android, $1.62/month on iOS
TikTok, the hugely popular social media app, found a lot of early traction by giving users a way to create funny lip-synced versions …
Sources: Facebook plans to use digital versions of government-backed currencies along with its Libra token for its Calibra wallet when it is launched in October
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WhatsApp says a dark mode will become available for iOS and Android users today, after months of testing, on by default for users with system dark mode enabled
We're excited to update WhatsApp … Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : WhatsApp releases long-awaited update for iOS 13 with Dark Mode support Catie Keck / Gizmodo : How to Enable WhatsApp's New Dark Mode on ...
A look at some ways people in China are using AI and machine learning algorithms to detect the spread of COVID-19, predict survival rates for patients, and more
The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is a fluid situation changing by the day, and even by the hour.
Hulu makes its live TV service available on the PS4, following Sony's decision to shut down their PlayStation Vue service in January
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Netlify, which has built a cloud-based platform for automating web development projects, raises $53M Series C led by EQT Ventures
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
CB Insights analysis of top 100 AI startups: the “most promising” 65 are US-based, though some have a dual HQ in China; overall US investment share is dropping
- Study finds companies focus on health, retail, transportation — Investment from other countries could slow American share
iPrice, which helps comparison shoppers in SE Asia by aggregating prices from ecommerce platforms, raises $10M Series B, bringing its total raised to ~$19.8M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
HPE reports Q1 revenue of $6.9B, down 8% YoY, missing analyst expectations of $7.21B, on weak compute revenue of $3B, down ~16% YoY; stock drops 6%+
Nico Grant / Bloomberg :
AngelList data shows that having a top-10 VC investor in the seed round had a negative effect on a startup's chances to raise a follow-on round in 2017 and 2018
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch : Tweets: @rodolfor , @gjain , and @paul_arnold Tweets: @rodolfor : This. A million times this. And the same goes for your Series A as well if we are talking about top VC ...
Uber sold Uber Eats in India to Zomato for $206M, instead of $350M as previously reported, in return for a 9.99% stake, lowering Zomato's ~$3B valuation
Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times :
Honeywell says it will launch a quantum computer within three months with a quantum volume of at least 64, making it the world's most powerful quantum computer
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Amazon says it will speed up same-day delivery for Prime members in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Orlando, and Dallas thanks to newly built smaller warehouses
Nat Levy / GeekWire :
Five, formerly FiveAI, a UK-based startup that provides software for self-driving vehicles, raises $41M Series B, bringing total raised to $77M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
MIT study: when only some news is labeled as fact-checked and disputed, the news that hasn't been tagged is considered validated and seen as more accurate
Mark Wilson / Fast Company :
Sources: Eden buys Managed by Q, a workplace management competitor, from WeWork for $25M cash, after WeWork bought Q for $220M last year
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
Overview of the steps Singapore is taking to improve consumer IoT security, including a proposed Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme for home routers and smart hubs
Eileen Yu / ZDNet :
Ampere unveils Ampere Altra, an 80-core ARM-based 64-bit server processor for server applications like data analytics, AI, database, storage, and more
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
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.
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