Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting a misleading claim in its original blog post, which now says 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants”
Zoom quietly updated a blog post earlier this month — Zoom has admitted it doesn't have 300 million daily active users.
Intel launches flagship 10th-gen Comet Lake desktop CPUs with 10 cores based on its Skylake architecture; the $488 Core i9-10900K CPU can reach 5.3GHz
Today we get the full range of its Intel's 10th Generation processors for desktops. These chips, which fall under the banner of ‘Comet Lake’ …
Raspberry Pi announces a new $50 camera board with a 12MP Sony sensor and support for interchangeable lenses
Great flexibility and resolution make the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera a winner. — OUR VERDICT — With interchangeable lenses and a 12-MP sensor, the Raspberry Pi High …
Twitter reports Q1 sales up 3% YoY to $808M as it swings to a net loss of $8M due to COVID-19; mDAUs hit a record 166M, up 24% YoY; stock opens down ~6%
Despite traffic for many online properties being at an all-time high, advertising has fallen off a cliff because of the downturn …
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 15% YoY to $35B, net income of $10.8B, up 22% YoY, Intelligent Cloud revenue of $12.3B, up 27%, LinkedIn revenue up 21%, Azure's up 59%
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Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain investments and holdings
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $515 million for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies.
Google introduces new rules for the Chrome Web Store to cut down on spammy extensions; developers must comply by August 27 or extensions will be delisted
Google plans to remove a bunch of garbage and useless Chrome extensions from the Web Store. — Google announced today new rules …
Microsoft says Teams has 75M+ DAUs, up from 44M in mid-March, a 70% increase, and attributes the growth to COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is juicing up numbers for remote work and learning. Microsoft's fiscal Q3 2020 earnings call kicked off with CEO Satya Nadella sharing a slew of numbers.
Motorola Edge Plus review: top-tier specs, good camera, solid battery life, but it's not waterproof, edge display has issues, and it's Verizon exclusive
When great just isn't good enough — After years mainly spent in the midrange phone market, Motorola burst back into the spotlight …
Global smartphone production in Q1 fell by 10% YoY to ~280M, the lowest in five years, and is estimated to drop by 16.5% YoY to ~287M in Q2
- TrendForce has revised down its forecast of yearly smartphone production volume to 1.24 billion units, an 11.3% decrease YoY, given weakening end-product demand.
Researcher: major sites like Wish and Mailchimp were leaking email addresses to ads and analytics companies including Facebook and Twitter via URL query strings
Breaches have been found on websites including Wish.com, JetBlue.com, Quibi.com, WashingtonPost.com, NGPVan.com and numerous other organizations...
Sensor Tower: TikTok and its Chinese version, Douyin, pass 2B downloads on Google Play and Apple's App Store; last quarter's 315M downloads beat its 205M record
TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world's most valued startup (ByteDance) …
Facebook rolls out a tool that lets users in the US and Canada transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos as part of the Data Transfer Project
Facebook launched the tool in Ireland last year — Facebook is rolling out a new tool today allowing users in the US and Canada to transfer …
Telegram postpones the launch of its TON blockchain for a second time, pushing the go-live date to April 2021, and offers to return $1.2B to investors
Messaging app Telegram postponed the launch of its TON blockchain for a second time on Wednesday, pushing the new go-live date to April 2021 …
SoftBank says it sees a loss of ~$6.6B in the year ending March on its WeWork investment held outside the Vision Fund, extending its expected net loss to $8.4B
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) said it sees a loss of around 700 billion yen ($6.6 billion) …
Reddit launches Start Chatting, a new tool that lets users start a chat room with up to seven randomly selected users within a subreddit
The “front page of the internet” is bringing back one of the web's oldest features: chat rooms. Reddit company is introducing a new chat tool …
Dozens of tracking apps for smartphones are being used or developed to help contain the pandemic, despite concerns about security, privacy, and effectiveness
literally dozens gathering info on people's location or contacts to curb the virus. Can they help? What are the pitfalls? Will people use them? @natashanyt @Aaron_Krolik & I take a look 1/ https://www...
Supply chain algorithms used by companies like Walmart and Amazon, which rely on past data to forecast demand, have been completely upended by the pandemic
The data the algorithms use isn't reliable — Even during a pandemic, Walmart's supply chain managers have to make sure stores … Tweets: @dancharvey Tweets: Dan fine coffee / @dancharvey : Algorithms...
Design software startup Figma raises $50M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2B valuation
Covering venture capital, software and startups — Figma CEO Dylan Field has enjoyed watching his design software take off in bizarre ways in recent weeks.
Facebook saw a “significant reduction” in advertising demand over the last three weeks of March but the first three weeks of April showed “signs of stability”
it means Facebook's CFO thinks the economy is not in recovery, and the worst may be ahead.) Rat King / @mikeisaac : Now for the first time ever, more than 3 billion people actively using one or more F...
Salesforce is moving all of its events in 2020 online, including Dreamforce, which drew over 170K attendees in 2019 and contributed $150M+ to the SF economy
- Salesforce is cancelling all its events for the rest of 2020 and making them virtual, including its annual Dreamforce conference.
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $5.21B, up 7% YoY, and says the pandemic reduced demand for smartphone chips by 21% YoY and will continue to do so into Q3
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Filing: Lyft is laying off 17% of its workforce, or 982 staff, and will furlough 288 employees alongside salary cuts ranging from 10% to 30% for all staff
Lyft email to employees Dan Primack / @danprimack : Off-demand https://twitter.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : from 8K LYFT layoffs: 17 percent of workforce, or 982 employees furloughing 288 employees...
Visa and Safaricom partner to open up Visa's global network to Safaricom-run M-Pesa's extensive financial services network in East Africa
Visa just connected to Africa's most powerful mobile payments network. The global financial services company and Kenyan telecom Safaricom …
AT&T says it will bring its advertising unit Xandr under its WarnerMedia label
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Thursday it will bring its advertising unit Xandr under its WarnerMedia label, which is set to launch its streaming channel HBO Max in May. See also Mediagazer
Booking Holdings' Priceline, OpenTable, and Kayak, along with Blix and others, form the lobbying group App Coalition, touting independence from Apple and Google
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Material Bank, a marketplace for architectural and design samples, raises $28M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures
Material Bank, a logistics platform for the architectural and design industry, has announced the close of a $28 million Series B financing today, led by Bain Capital Ventures.
Spotify beats with Q1 revenue of €1.8B and net income of €1M; MAUs rose 31% YoY to 286M, premium users rose 31% to 130M, and ad-supported MAUs rose 32% to 163M
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Facebook announces Blender, an open source chatbot aimed at AI research that it says has been trained on 9.4B parameters
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Sources: Amazon has begun cracking down on communication across its widely-read email listservs after employees used them to protest and organize
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox :
Trump administration lists Amazon's websites in Canada, UK, Germany, France, and India as “notorious markets” for counterfeit goods; the move carries no penalty
Doug Palmer / Politico :
Q&A with EU's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on virus tracking apps and privacy, her disagreements with Elizabeth Warren about regulating big tech, and more
Interview with Margrethe Vestager https://www.newyorker.com/... @jason_kint : Legit concern, Google and Facebook hydras.... Interesting answer on contrast between @vestager and @SenWarren approach to ...
Nexar, which makes AI-based software for car dashboard cameras, raises $52M Series C, source says at a valuation of $272M, bringing its total raised to $100M
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Twitter updates its API platform to make it easier for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19
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Facebook says it is now reopening some moderation centres, with plans for social distancing and PPE, but return to work will be voluntary for content reviewers
Wall Street has been slow to shift to the cloud, using mainframes until recently, but issues like handling spikes in demand amid COVID-19 may change that
Businesses are learning countless lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. For many financial services companies …
eBay reports Q1 revenue of $2.37B, down 2% YoY, active buyers up 2% to 174M but GMV fell 1% to $21.3B, and it returned $4.0B to shareholders via stock buybacks
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Salesforce details its AI Economist, built in partnership with a Harvard economist, that helps design policies by modeling the impact of different tax rates
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Pittsburgh-based Niche, a school search service for prospective US students, raises $35M Series C led by Radian Capital, bringing total raised to ~$44M
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
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.