Zoom CEO says the app's upcoming end-to-end encryption feature will be available only to paid users in order to comply with law enforcement in case of misuse
If you're a free Zoom user, and waiting for the company to roll out end-to-end encryption for better protection of your calls, you're out of luck.
On a call with Facebook employees Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg stood firmly behind his decision to leave up President Trump's inflammatory posts
In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on President Trump's messages, Mark Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.”
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
For years … Yann LeCun / Facebook : Whenever there is a major political issue with two sides … Tweets: Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : A Facebook employee resigns. “Mark always told us that he would draw ...
Zoom reports Q1 revenue of $328.2M, up 169% YoY, and 265K customers with 10+ employees, up 354% YoY; projected Q2 revenue is nearly double expectations
and revenue — thanks to the pandemic The Irish Times : Zoom nearly doubles revenue forecast on remote-work boost Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Zoom crushes earning estimates and its guidance doubles ...
Google removes Remove China Apps, which promised to help users rid their smartphones of Chinese apps, from the Play Store; the app had 4.7M downloads in India
Remove China Apps reached top of Play Store in India before it was ousted on Tuesday — Google intervened on Tuesday after millions …
Early build of iOS 14 points to the addition of an offline, built-in translator in Safari and possible full support of Apple Pencil input on websites
Apple is working to include a built-in translator in Safari, 9to5Mac has learned, as well as full Apple Pencil support on websites.
Protests renew scrutiny of tech company's ties to law enforcement, as company officials issue statements in support of protesters
Amazon executives tweeted support for protesters. But the company sells a surveillance tool to police that studies say misidentifies darker-skinned people.
Ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek says Facebook and PayPal were participating in its ongoing Series F; Gojek was valued at $10B after raising $1.2B in March
Facebook and PayPal have made investments in Gojek, joining Google and Tencent among other high-profile technology firms …
After discussing the lack of action on Trump's posts with Mark Zuckerberg, civil rights leaders say they are “stunned by Mark's incomprehensible explanations”
and what are you standing for? https://www.cnbc.com/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : On CNBC, Color for Change's Rashad Robinson, who spoke with Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, said Zuckerberg's decision ...
Supercuts of violent police behavior during widespread protests have been going viral on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, with one racking up over 45M views
Supercuts of police behavior are receiving enormous numbers of views. — An officer shoving a protester to the ground.
SoftBank launches Opportunity Growth Fund to invest in companies led by founders and entrepreneurs of color, initially starting with $100M
As we continue to see protests across the US (and elsewhere) sparked by the killing of George Floyd by police in Minnesota, SoftBank is announcing …
Trump's executive order on social media is facing its first legal challenge, from the Center for Democracy and Technology, filed in DC's US District Court
The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology argues that the president's move against Twitter and other companies is retaliatory.
Study that analyzed real-world web traffic shows that only around a third of users changed their passwords following a data breach announcement
Only a third of users changed their password following a data breach. — Only around a third of users usually change their passwords following …
Mobile banking startup Varo Money raises $241M Series D led by Gallatin Point Capital and The Rise Fund, bringing its total raised to $419.4M
San Francisco-based mobile banking startup Varo Money Inc. revealed today that it has raised $241 million in new funding to expand development of its mobile banking products.
As Blackout Tuesday posts fill Instagram feeds, many say they are drowning out vital information shared under the BLM and BlackLivesMatter hashtags
We have mixed feelings about #BlackoutTuesday, too. Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac : Apple Music joins wider music industry Black Out Tuesday awareness campaign with app takeover The Verge : Spotify, Apple M...
The BBC releases first beta of Beeb, its English language voice assistant, to UK Windows Insider members, with an ability to understand a range of UK accents
but Amazon won't be worried Jon Porter / The Verge : BBC releases its own ‘Beeb’ voice assistant in beta Rachel Thompson / Mashable : BBC launches voice assistant that will learn regional accents Dami...
Microsoft starts bringing its Chromium-based version of Edge to all Windows 10 users through an automatic update; the browser previously needed to be downloaded
Liam Tung / ZDNet :
Interview with ex-Uber CTO Thuan Pham, who left last month, on his seven years atop the company, its rapid expansion, future plans, and more
Reflecting on seven years as the top technology executive at Uber Technologies Inc., Thuan Pham divides his time there into three “tours of duty,” as he describes them. Tweets: @whatthebit Tweets: Ste...
As tech companies cancel events into 2021, Consumer Technology Association says next January's CES will take place “both physically in Las Vegas and digitally”
Other companies are canceling large conferences — The group behind CES plans to hold the enormous tech convention …
In an ongoing censorship case filed against YouTube by LGBTQ creators, Trump's DOJ asked a judge not to declare Section 230 unconstitutional
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg :
Brave says it had 15.4M MAUs, up 125% YoY, and 5.3M DAUs in May, and the number of campaigns using Brave Ads grew from 400 to 1,530 since October 2019
Brave Browser :
Twitter restricts a tweet from US House Rep. Matt Gaetz for violating its policy against glorifying violence, after it had been retweeted over 12,000 times
Makena Kelly / The Verge :
Sources: the investor group that got US approval to buy Grindr has financial and personal links to the dating app's current owner Beijing Kunlun Tech
Echo Wang, Alexandra Alper, Chibuike Oguh — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investor group that got U.S. approval to buy Grindr Inc …
London-based Verne Global, which provides data center tech for high performance computing, raises $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu :
The Trump administration says it will open an investigation into taxes on digital commerce that have been adopted or proposed in nine countries and the EU
New York Times :
A look at Mayhem, a bot made by a startup called ForAllSecure for finding software bugs, which is now being used by the US military and Cloudflare
and Netflix. https://www.wired.com/... @cylab : A 2018 gov't report showed that most weapons systems the @DeptofDefense tested from 2012 to 2017 had serious software vulnerabilities. That's why @Carne...
Facebook introduces its Manage Activity tool, an easier way to delete or archive old posts in bulk
for family during #COVID19 or expressing support for #BlackLivesMatter—should still take these steps to protect their privacy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Zabe / @aagha : How about a feature t...
A look at indie game publishing in the 1990s at Apogee, GodGames, id, and Epic, which used a shareware-style model that became a foundation of modern publishing
Jessica Conditt / Engadget : Tweets: @duvalmagic Tweets: Randy Pitchford / @duvalmagic : Interesting story, beautiful close: “People-first is a fine starting point.” https://www.engadget.com/...
Rivals say Microsoft used sharp-elbowed tactics to push Teams during the pandemic, deploying 50 staffers to work with NYC's school district to replace Zoom
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal :
Instacart expands sick pay for workers with COVID-19 or who live with someone who tested positive, offers free telemedicine for symptomatic workers in DC pilot
Russell Brandom / The Verge : Tweets: @backlon Tweets: Dieter Bohn / @backlon : After a big report from @russellbrandom showing how Instacart was avoiding providing sick pay to its workers, the compa...
Lili, which is building banking products for freelance workers, raises $10M seed funding led by Group 11
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Thanks: @woodlandalyssa
Blockchain journalism startup Civil is shutting down following its failure to find substitute financing after losing its major source of funding, ConsenSys
Lessons from a failed startup: The high-profile, blockchain-backed attempt to nurture nascent digital news sites is shutting down.” https://www.poynter.org/... The company seeded The Colorado Sun w/ a...
Sony postpones a PlayStation 5 event scheduled for June 4 “to allow more important voices to be heard”, following similar moves by EA and Google amid protests
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Twitter appoints board member Patrick Pichette as chairman of Twitter, replacing Omid Kordestani; Pichette previously served as Google CFO from 2008 to 2015
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
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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