CNN investigation finds troll farms in Ghana and Nigeria exploited US racial tensions and have ties to Russia's IRA; Facebook and Twitter have removed accounts
Accra, Ghana (CNN)The Russian trolls are back — and once again trying to poison the political atmosphere in the United States ahead of this year's elections.
Apple confirms all 42 of its China stores will be open as of Friday after closing them in Feb. due to COVID-19, however, they will operate under reduced hours
Apple Inc. has reopened all 42 of its stores in China after it was forced to close them last month due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
AT&T suspends broadband data caps for home internet customers in response to increased data needs during outbreak, 17 US senators ask large ISPs to follow suit
AT&T is the first major ISP to confirm that it will be suspending all broadband usage caps as millions of Americans bunker …
YouTube introduces a new Explore tab on Android and iOS to replace Trending, featuring destination pages and creators and music artists “on the Rise”
After being in beta for shy of two years, YouTube is finally rolling out its “Explore” tab on both Android and iOS, a new home for trending content and much more.
Microsoft says its Build 2020 developer conference, planned for May 19 through May 21, will be a digital event due to COVID-19 concerns
Microsoft's Build developer event is no longer taking place in Seattle — Microsoft's Build developer conference is the latest tech event to be affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Terry Gou, founder of Foxconn, said the resumption of production at its factories in China had “exceeded expectations” after a prolonged halt due to coronavirus
Comcast accidentally published 200K “unlisted” phone numbers, with names and addresses, of customers who paid monthly fees to make their numbers unlisted
Comcast made the same mistake once before and had to pay $33 million. — Comcast mistakenly published the names …
Amazon says it is recommending that all employees work from home, if they are able to do so, through the end of March
Amazon issued guidance Thursday in response to the COVID-19 outbreak recommending that global employees who are able to work from home to do so through the end of March.
Kuo: Apple plans to release new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor keyboards in the second quarter of 2020
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Sources: ZTE is the subject of a new bribery investigation by the DOJ; ZTE pleaded guilty three years ago to violating US sanctions against Iran and North Korea
ZTE pleaded guilty three years ago to violating U.S. sanctions against Iran and North Korea and just ended its probation period.
After acquiring Code Barrel in Oct., Atlassian launches native no-code automation across Jira Cloud products with support for Slack, Microsoft Teams, and others
A few months ago, Atlassian acquired Code Barrel, the Sydney-based company behind the popular Automation for Jira low-code tool for …
Firefox 74 comes with an enhanced Facebook Container Extension that lets users add custom sites so they can login with Facebook wherever they need
Prompt to install enhanced extension is the first thing you'll see — The first thing users will see after updating to Mozilla's latest browser … Tweets: @rockymountviews , @chaz_6 , and @linuz90 Twe...
Microsoft releases a patch for the wormable flaw in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 that leaked this week
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Source: Airbnb reported a loss of $276.4M in Q4 before COVID-19 hit, nearly doubling YoY from $143.7M; revenue was up 32% to $1.1B, and it has $2B+ in the bank
and guidance for Q1 was 25% growth. However — that projection was pre-virus frenzy and pre Trump's Europe travel ban https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : not a g...
All major esports tournaments and events have been postponed or cancelled due to coronavirus, costing players, coaches, casters involved money and opportunities
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SoftBank to spend ~$4.8B to buy back 7% of its shares following demands from activist fund Elliott Management
Announcement comes on day markets plunged due to fears over spread of coronavirus — SoftBank will buy back ¥500bn ($4.8bn) of its own shares following demands …
Some Facebook contractors at Accenture and WiPro say they are not permitted to work from home; Facebook says it is due to safety, privacy, and legal reasons
Google is recommending *all* of its North American employees work from home due to #coronavirus concerns. Biggest company to do this so far. Parent company Alphabet has more than 100,000 employees mos...
Slack reports Q4 revenue of $181.9M, up 49% YoY, beating expectations, but issues disappointing Q1 forecast; stock is down 17%+
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Sources: Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, is seeking to raise about $200M to $300M at a valuation of around $5B
The event streaming platform Confluent Inc. has held talks with potential investors about a new funding round, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Tweets: @technology Tweets: @technology...
Oracle reports Q3 revenue of $9.8B, up 2% YoY, beating analyst estimates of $9.75B, and Cloud Services division revenue of $6.9B, up 4% YoY
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Telecom Italia says its internet traffic surged 70%+, mostly due to games such as Fortnite, after reports of lost connections during Italy's school shutdown
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Bitcoin fell to ~$5,200, its lowest level since May 2019 amid a collapse in worldwide stock market indices
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk :
Apple announces it will hold WWDC in June in “an entirely new online format”
WWDC 2020 to Feature an Online Format with a Keynote and Sessions Connecting Millions of Developers Around the World — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide...
As COVID-19 hastens the adoption of remote work tools, it deepens the divide between those who can and can't work remotely, and normalizes social distancing
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Sources: France's competition watchdog to fine Apple over anti-competitive behavior in its distribution and sales network
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ACLU files lawsuit against Homeland Security to uncover details about the agency's face recognition program currently installed in over a dozen US airports
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Adobe beats Q1 expectations with revenue of $3.09B, up 19% YoY, and earnings of $955M, compared to $674M a year ago; subscription revenue was $2.83B, up 22.5%
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Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others sign an open letter opposing more than dozen bills across the US that target LGBTQ citizens
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
Ride Report, which provides cities and legislators with data and monitoring tools for micromobility vehicles like scooters, raises $10M led by Unusual Ventures
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Trump signs bill banning federal subsidies of purchases from vendors deemed a threat, like Huawei, and helping small telecoms replace gear with a $1B FCC fund
Maggie Miller / The Hill :
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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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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