YouTube says it will remove content spreading conspiracy theories linking 5G and coronavirus, but will leave content that is simply conspiratorial about 5G
Decision comes as four more phone masts are attacked — Play Video — YouTube will reduce the amount of content spreading conspiracy theories …
Tim Cook says Apple has now sourced 20M+ masks for healthcare workers from its supply chain and has designed and will ship face shields at a rate of 1M/week
Tim Cook is back with another update on Apple's ongoing efforts to help healthcare professionals amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
Quibi app review: works reliably, auto-flips between landscape and portrait, but no tablet-optimized mode, no family member profiles, and lacks a TV experience
A mobile-only video app was always going to be a hard sell — After months of publicity, Quibi — the mobile phone app that's centered …
After some UK cell towers were set on fire, the government will meet Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to stop the spread of a conspiracy theory linking 5G to COVID-19
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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review: excellent keyboard, beautiful display, thin and light design, and fast performance, but poor battery life and expensive
That 4K screen comes at a major cost. — 6m ago — Google has been selling expensive, high-end Chromebooks for years now.
Jeffery Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's Quibi short-video streaming service launches with $1.8B in funding amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman had to cancel a starry Hollywood party for their short-video platform because of the virus. But Quibi is still going live.
Researchers: Google searches about symptoms, like loss of smell, can help find places where positive COVID-19 cases were missed and reveal undetected symptoms
They can also reveal symptoms that at first went undetected. I may have found a new one. — Mr. Stephens-Davidowitz is the author of …
Foxconn reports ~$11.51B in March revenue, down 7.7% YoY, as January to March revenue dropped 12% YoY to ~$30.74B amid the COVID-19 pandemic
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sales at Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, a key supplier of Apple Inc's products known by its trade name Foxconn, were down by 7.7% in March.
Zoom is being banned over security concerns by some US school districts, including NYC, which is directing teachers to switch to Microsoft Teams
Zoom's popularity has taken off … Tweets: Brad Lander / @bradlander : This is a terrible decision @NYCSchools @DOEChancellor. Our teachers, students, and families have put in massive amounts of work t...
UK High Court judge says Google will either need to let an SEO expert inspect its ranking algorithms or withdraw evidence from its long-running competition case
Tough choice for adtech monolith in Foundem case — Google must either show its “crown jewels” to a man it described …
Twice this week, traffic to 200+ of the world's largest CDNs and cloud hosts was redirected through Russia's telco Rostelecom in likely BGP hijacking attacks
Rostelecom involved in BGP hijacking incident this week impacting more than 200 CDNs and cloud providers.
IBM names former Bank of America CTO Howard Boville as head of its cloud business, as Arvind Krishna takes over from long-time CEO Ginni Rometty
(Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) on Monday named former Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) top technology executive Howard Boville head …
Interview with Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar on bug-tracking tool Jira, the ongoing evolution of enterprise software, and future of the company
Enterprise software development has changed a lot over the last two decades, from expensive server farms to the explosion of web and mobile applications to the rise of the cloud.
Q&A with Javier Soltero, Acompli co-founder and ex-head of Microsoft Office products, on his present role as VP and GM of G Suite, the future of email, and more
Javier Soltero is six or so months into his job at Google as vice president and GM of G Suite, and he readily admits he still … Tweets: @pierce and @protocol Tweets: David Pierce / @pierce : A few wee...
Yapily, which offers an API to let enterprises connect to banks offering open banking services, raises $13M Series A led by Lakestar
Yapily, one of a number of fintech startups that offer an opening banking API to let enterprises, such as financial service providers and merchants …
Skype no longer requires video call participants to have an account or to download software, letting users join a call via a link, similar to Zoom
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Pure Harvest Smart Farms, which is developing tech-powered greenhouses in the Middle East, raises $20.6M Series A and says it has $100M committed from Kuwait
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In internal email lists Amazon corporate employees express dismay over the firing of Christian Smalls and a report that management discussed a plan to smear him
“not smart, or articulate” — if the warehouse worker had been white. https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/... R Givan / @rkgwork : “A worker at the bottom of our company's hierarchy being treat...
PsiQuantum, which aims to build a commercial quantum computing machine with 1M qubits, raises $215M from Microsoft, Playground Global, and others
The technology industry has spent decades trying to puzzle out the basis of a quantum computer. Such a machine, powered not by the simple …
Faith leaders across the US have turned to virtual tools, through which they offer individual counseling and stream services, homilies, and text studies
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @bernstein , @dbnewsjournal , @katherinemiller , @algemeiner , @katherinemiller , @dbnewsjournal , @atossaaraxia , @bernstein , @vanvocations , @bernstein ,...
London-based Privitar, which aims to help companies utilize big data without compromising privacy, raises $80M Series C led by Warburg Pincus
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NetMarketShare: Microsoft Edge becomes the second most popular desktop browser for the first time, with a market share of 7.59%, beating Mozilla Firefox's 7.19%
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Sources: EU is focusing the next stage of its Facebook competition probe on whether it is distorting the classified ads market by promoting Marketplace
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Uber partners with Flipkart and BigBasket in India to deliver groceries and other essential items in Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Delhi
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US Small Business Administration issues new guidance for the $350B stimulus program that still seems to exclude most VC-backed startups
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After being put on the US trade blacklist, sources say Megvii Technology's revenue grew just 2.7% in H2 2019 after more than tripling sales in the H1 2019
- Alibaba-backed Megvii's revenue growth slowed in second half — Megvii becomes a high-profile victim of White House's campaign
PwC report: the total number of crypto M&A deals dropped from 189 in 2018 to 114 last year, while the value of M&A deals dropped from $1.89B to $451M
Nathan DiCamillo / CoinDesk : Tweets: @coindesk Tweets: @coindesk : JUST IN: The value of crypto M&A deals last year dropped by a whopping 76 percent, according to a new report by @PwC - down from $1...
Bengaluru-based digital payments startup JusPay raises $21.6M Series B led by Vostok Emerging Finance
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Report: the live streaming e-commerce market in China saw more than $61B in transactions in 2019 and is expected to double this year due to the pandemic
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Execs at US digital banks say European challengers, like N26, are underestimating the hurdles they will face in the US, like regulation and cultural differences
Protocol : Tweets: @codepo8 Tweets: Chris Heilmann / @codepo8 : (Protocol) https://www.protocol.com/... Uhm, yeah, sure, because Banking regulations in Europe are a breeze :)
Huawei joins the Open Invention Network, the leading US-based patent non-aggression group covering Linux and related open-source tech
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A look at how big tech companies and startups are helping governments around the world tackle COVID-19, with chatbots, supercomputers, hackathons, and more
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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.