Twitter removes a video tribute to George Floyd posted by Trump's campaign, saying it received a complaint from a copyright owner of at least one image
Twitter on Thursday removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President Trump's reelection campaign, claiming it had run afoul …
Amazon to license Slack for all employees, while Slack will use underlying tech from AWS's Chime video-calling service to improve its video and audio calls
- Slack will draw on the underlying technology for Amazon Web Services' Chime video-calling service to deliver better video calls for millions of Slack users.
Facebook ran an ad for 5 days from a GOP Congressional candidate that urged people to shoot “looting hoards from Atlanta”; ad removed after journalist inquiry
Whether He Likes It or Not Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg : Questioned by lawmakers from the UK's DCMS committee, Monika Bickert claims to have not seen the open letter critical of Facebook from former Faceb...
Google researchers say hackers backed by China recently targeted the Biden campaign while Iran targeted the Trump campaign, but see “no signs of compromise”
Google security researchers say they've identified efforts by at least two nation state-backed hackers against the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns.
Sensor Tower and Apptopia say Twitter broke US and worldwide single-day download records this week with 600K+ downloads and 40M US DAUs on Thursday
Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week …
IIHS study of 5K+ crashes: self-driving cars would have prevented only a third, those caused by “sensing and perceiving” errors and driver “incapacitation”
DETROIT (AP) — A new study says that while autonomous vehicle technology has great promise to reduce crashes …
As protests dominate headlines, Trump's campaign spent $1.48M on Google ads last week to promote his birthday; since July 2018, Trump has spent $26.3M on Google
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Slack Q1: revenue of $201.7M, up 50% YoY, compared with 49% last quarter, and added 12,000 new paid customers for a total of 122K+; stock down 15%+
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In a statement, Instagram says it does not provide users a copyright license to display images on other websites when using its embedding API
People may need to get permission before embedding someone else's Instagram photo. — Instagram does not provide users of its embedding API …
Superpedestrian, maker of e-bikes, scooters, and other micromobility tech, launches a scooter sharing service and raises $15M, bringing its total raised to $79M
From the makers of the Copenhagen Wheel — Boston-based micromobility startup Superpedestrian is launching …
Apple will require temperature checks for employees returning to headquarters, offer COVID-19 testing, and limit the number of people in confined spaces
- Those returning to Apple Park will be offered nasal swab test — Other changes: elevator limit, masks required, kitchens closed
Facebook will start blocking state-controlled media outlets from buying ads in the US this summer and is rolling out labels for ads and posts from those outlets
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Business intelligence service ZoomInfo closes up 62% on its first day of trading, after raising $934.5M in its IPO and valuing the company at about $13.4B
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Facebook makes groups linked to the term “Boogaloo”, which refers to potential US civil war, harder to find after arrest of group participants plotting violence
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is making it harder to find user groups associated with the term “Boogaloo …
Maze ransomware operators successfully attacked Conduent, a NJ-based business services company, for 10 hours, possibly due to Citrix NetScaler vulnerability
The Maze Ransomware operators are claiming to have successfully attacked business services giant Conduent, where they stole unencrypted files …
iOS 13.5.5 beta code hints that Apple still plans to introduce a service bundle that includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, and more in a single subscription
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Report: Apple started a robotics lab in 2012 to reduce human labor needed to assemble products, but abandoned it in 2018 when the robots couldn't match humans
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Sources: telemedicine company Amwell, formerly American Well, confidentially files for IPO after it raised $194M in May; will seek September offering
Amwell IPO after a $194M private raise and following Livongo, One Medical, and Teladoc raising a combined $1.6 billion in convertible notes in the last month. https://twitter.com/...
DuckDuckGo CEO: US federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions about how to limit Google's search business, as part of antitrust investigations
Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg :
France creates a €150M fund to protect home-grown tech startups from takeovers by foreign buyers, may increase it to €500M from early next year
- Finance Ministry sets aside up to 500 million euros for fund — Distressed tech firms may become ‘prey’ for foreign bidders
Abu Dhabi's state fund Mubadala Investment buys a 1.85% stake in Reliance Jio Platforms for $1.2B
Campbell Kwan / ZDNet :
Google details how it is using a variety of AI techniques to improve the translation quality for languages that don't have a copious amount of written text
Google says it's made progress toward improving translation quality for languages that don't have a copious amount of written text.
ByteDance shuts down TopBuzz, its AI-based news aggregator that is an overseas equivalent of its Chinese news app, Jinri Toutiao
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based news aggregator TopBuzz … Tweets: @serena Tweets: @serena : Holy...
France and Germany back plans to create a European cloud computing ecosystem, dubbed Gaia-X, with the initial participation of 22 companies from both countries
the 2020 version of Quaero (another Franco-German push to build an EU search engine to compete w/ @Google) https://www.politico.eu/... Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : Typical European move: Rather than ha...
Facebook says its tool that lets users transfer photos and videos to Google Photos, as part of the Data Transfer Project, is now available globally
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
DocuSign reports Q2 revenue of $297M, up 39% YoY, adds 29K enterprise and commercial customers, up 49% YoY
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Medium launches Newsletters, to let publications start newsletters on the platform and get replies from readers directly in the publications' inboxes
excited for this feature to help people tell better and more personal stories https://blog.medium.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : If you're looking for an uplifting story to remind you of the be...
Sources: VMware is acquiring network security startup Lastline and will let go 40%, or around 50, of its employees; Lastline raised about $52.2M, per Crunchbase
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