New York's AG sent a letter to Zoom expressing concern over security vulnerabilities and privacy practices as more users conduct sensitive tasks on the service
As the videoconferencing platform's popularity has surged, Zoom has scrambled to address a series of data privacy and security problems.
Around 60 employees staged a walkout at a Staten Island, NY fulfillment center to protest the impact of Amazon's COVID-19 response on warehouse workers
As Amazon workers across the country test positive for the virus, employees believe collective action is the only way to get the company to meaningfully clean its facilities
Zoom's marketing and product make the claim that it uses “end-to-end encryption”, but video and audio content from meetings is not end-to-end encrypted
Zoom, the video conferencing service whose use has spiked amid the Covid-19 pandemic, claims to implement end-to-end encryption …
Amazon confirms that it fired the worker who led the Staten Island warehouse strike for violating its quarantine measures; worker says firing was in retaliation
- Worker Chris Smalls says labor activism led to his dismissal — Amazon says Smalls violated safety conditions, quarantine
Microsoft debuts a Family Safety mobile app and AI-powered PowerPoint and Excel features as part of its 365 Family and Personal subscriptions, coming April 21
Microsoft today announced that on April 21, Office 365 will become Microsoft 365, or “the subscription for your life.”
Comcast says internet traffic from voice and video calls has risen 212% on its network over the past month and the overall peak traffic is up by 32%
Traffic zooms up as more people work from home — Voice and video calls have more than tripled on Comcast's network …
Sources: in early March, Apple started letting some engineers take home early versions of future devices to continue work during the lockdown period
With its 175-acre campus in Cupertino, California, and several dozen more offices across the rest of the world, Apple Inc. wasn't designed as a work-at-home company.
Huawei reports net profit of $9B for 2019, up 5.65% YoY, its slowest growth since 2016, on revenue of $123B, up 19.1% YoY, says it's impacted by US blacklist
- Huawei reported revenue of around 858.8 billion yuan or $123 billion for 2019, in line with its target at the start of last year.
Spotify for Kids launches in the US, Canada, and France on the $14.99/month Spotify Premium Family tier with 8,000 songs, of which 50% is localized
Spotify is giving more housebound parents — and their cooped-up kids — a new tool to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Snap launches App Stories, which lets developers syndicate Stories in other apps, where they will default to a seven-day expiration
If you can't stop them, power them. That's the strategy behind Snapchat App Stories, which launches today to let users show off their ephemeral content in other apps too.
App Annie: videoconferencing apps saw a record 62M downloads during the week of March 14-21, up 45% from the prior week
Work-from-home policies, social distancing and government lockdowns have increased the demand for video conferencing apps, for both business and personal use.
Fitbit unveils Charge 4 fitness tracker with built-in GPS, NFC payments, and Spotify compatibility, starting at $150, available for preorder online today
As we entered a new decade, Fitbit's fortunes looked uncertain. Last year, the company was acquired by Google for a neat $2.1 billion …
Microsoft says Chromium Edge is getting Vertical Tabs, Smart Copy to help you copy web content into docs, Password Monitor to alert users of stolen credentials
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A US federal court rules that simply breaking a site's terms of service does not constitute criminal hacking under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Courts have struggled to interpret the vague Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. — A federal court in Washington, DC, has ruled that violating …
Palo Alto Networks says it will acquire CloudGenix, which competes with SD-WAN providers like Cisco, for $420M
CloudGenix competes with Cisco and other incumbents in the SD-WAN space. — Palo Alto Networks said on Tuesday that it plans to acquire software-defined wide-area networking …
Microsoft announces Teams for consumers, to help plan trips, share grocery lists, and more, Skype DAUs up 70% month-over-month to 40M, calling minutes up 220%
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OnePlus says its OnePlus 8 flagship phone will have Snapdragon 865 for 25% better performance, 120Hz display, 5G, and more; launch event will be on April 14
As most of you already know, OnePlus has focused on creating a “fast and smooth” user experience since day one.
Seegrid, which builds autonomous industrial vehicles for transporting materials, raises $25M from G2VP
Seegrid, a company that builds autonomous industrial vehicles for transporting materials, has raised $25 million in round of equity funding from venture capital firm G2VP.
Axonius, which provides a cybersecurity-focused network asset management service, raises $58M Series C led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
As companies get to grips with a wider (and, lately, more enforced) model of remote working, a startup that provides a platform to help track and manage …
After changing its rules, Twitter is cracking down on COVID-19 misinformation from prominent accounts, including Brazilian President Bolsonaro and Rudy Giuliani
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China-based Yuanfudao, which offers online courses and homework plans to students, raises $1B led by Tencent, raising its valuation to $7.8B from $3B in 2018
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese online education platform Yuanfudao said on Tuesday it has raised $1 billion in a new financing round …
Review of AMD's 7nm, 8-core Ryzen 9 4900HS, which is now available in PCs like the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, shows it crushing Intel's most powerful laptop CPUs
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How the Biden campaign is ramping up its digital operation amid the COVID-19 crisis, as Democrats look to close the technological divide with the Republicans
In the era of big data, memes and disinformation, the Democrats are trying to regain their digital edge as the president and his loyalists dictate the terms of debate.
Facebook says it has struck a deal to license tech and purchase AR displays from microLED firm Plessey, which sources say Apple recently looked at buying
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Facebook says it will invest $100M to support the news industry during COVID-19: $25M in emergency funding for local news and $75M in additional marketing spend
children are using Facebook Messenger Kids to deal with coronavirus isolation. Kids are getting a crash course on texting and social media with “technology on training wheels. https://twitter.com/... ...
Disney says it will launch Disney+ in India on April 3 and raise the yearly subscription cost of Disney+Hotstar to $20, up from $13.20
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Instacart says worker strike had “no impact” on its operations and that its workforce has seen 40% earnings rise in the past month compared to the month prior
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HackerOne expels mobile voting vendor Voatz from its security program over hostile interactions with researchers, the first time it's cut ties with an org
major kudos to HackerOne for taking a stand in support of security researchers. https://www.cyberscoop.com/... https://twitter.com/... Eric Mill / @konklone : True to form, @Voatz' statement deflects ...
Airbnb will issue full refunds for trips starting on or before May 31 booked before March 14, will set aside $250M to pay hosts 25% of regular cancelation fee
Xiaomi beats estimates, reports Q4 profit of $320M, up 26.5% YoY, on revenue of $8B, up 27.1% YoY, says its MIUI OS now has 309.6M MAUs, up from 292M in Sep '19
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
To save lives, we need technology that acts more like a thoughtful journalist, doctor, or other fiduciary agent that cares about the ethics of their choices
Tristan Harris / Center for Humane Technology : Tweets: @rossdawson , @joshelman , and @zagrrl Tweets: Ross Dawson / @rossdawson : Lovely piece by @tristanharris What can social media platforms do RI...
WeWork is selling the social network Meetup to AlleyCorp and other private investors, sources say at a fraction of the $156M that WeWork paid for Meetup in 2017
Alyssa Newcomb / Fortune :
Recent US federal court ruling on Telegram's ICO obliterates using private token sales to finance public blockchain projects, further stymying crypto innovation
Josh Lawler / CoinDesk :
Tokyo-based Kyash, which provides digital banking services to individual consumers as well as businesses, raises $45M Series C, bringing total raised to $73M
Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bloombergasia Tweets: Bloomberg Asia / @bloombergasia : Japanese fintech startup Kyash manages to raise funds despite a venture capital chill https://www.bloomber...
HQ Trivia, which laid off its entire staff and shut down in February, has been acquired by an undisclosed investor and has already returned, airing another show
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Sources: Facebook's security team had disinfo concerns about The Daily Wire's sites in 2019, clashing with the policy team, which prevented action being taken
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Huawei open sources MindSpore, an AI computing framework akin to TensorFlow and PyTorch, which it claims offers a 50% efficiency boost over rivals on average
Kyle Wiggers / 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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