In response to Australian regulator, Facebook says it will not pay for shared news links and that not having them at all would not significantly impact business
Social media giant rejects ACCC proposal, saying it could cut out news completely without any significant impact on its business
A lawyer for Amazon says Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before a House antitrust investigation, after resisting earlier requests
Lawmakers had requested that he testify as part of their antitrust investigation into the big tech companies. — WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive …
Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M
Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
WhatsApp says it is rolling out a payments service for its users in Brazil to send and receive money and make purchases from local businesses
WhatsApp said on Monday it has started to roll out a payments service to its users in Brazil in a move that it described was aimed at helping businesses accept digital money.
Apple launches zero-interest financing with Apple Card for iPad, Mac, AirPods, and its other products for six or 12 months
Apple today has officially launched support for financing additional products with Apple Card and 0% interest. The new financing options are available for the Mac lineup …
Walmart partners with Shopify to expand its third-party marketplace, with plans to add 1,200 Shopify sellers this year
- Move is retailer's latest attempt to grow online sales, profit — Walmart will bring 1,200 Shopify sellers to its site this year
ByteDance says it's shutting down two of its apps in India, Vigo Lite and Vigo Video, the latter of which reportedly had 4M MAUs, urging users to move to TikTok
Chinese internet giant ByteDance has announced plans to discontinue two of its apps in India, its biggest overseas market, and urged users to move to TikTok.
Intel says its upcoming Tiger Lake mobile CPUs will be the first to use its anti-malware Control-flow Enforcement Technology
Intel says CET can protect against ROP/JOP/COP malware. — Intel has announced today that its experimental CET security feature will be first made available …
Google apologizes for a glitch that made a picture of Winston Churchill disappear from his Knowledge Graph entry
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US auto safety regulators will unveil a voluntary effort to collect and publish centralized nationwide data on autonomous vehicle testing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators will unveil on Monday a voluntary effort to collect and make available nationwide data on existing autonomous vehicle testing.
Source: Sen. Josh Hawley's proposed legislation would make Section 230 protections contingent on not letting advertisers target users based on behavioral data
An individual close to the plan says it links legal protections to halting some targeted ads. — Sen. Josh Hawley. Tweets: @politico , @mmasnick , @senatorshoshana , and @jeremycady . Thanks: @viacri...
Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news”
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A look at Shop, Shopify's new app for consumers, which saves stores from having to build their own shopping app and offers personalized product recommendations
It is the second-largest e-commerce platform in the US, yet remains anonymous. Will its new app change all that? Tweets: @carnage4life Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Shopify has missed the b...
Sources: SoftBank has invested $500M+ into Credit Suisse supply-chain finance funds that then made big bets on the debt of struggling SoftBank-backed startups
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Political advocacy and voter-registration groups are targeting phones of protesters and sending them messages about registering to vote or taking other actions
Voting and advocacy groups track cellphones of participants and send messages; the tactics are ‘deeply spooky yet extremely helpful,’ says one user
US efforts to deploy COVID-19 contact tracing apps have fallen flat, as most states retreat from earlier interest and the few with an app struggle with adoption
and none have deployed it yet https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : There is a ginormous gap in the polling between how much people say they care about the virus and both how ...
PayPal, Square, others make some businesses wait for weeks to access funds, to protect themselves against the rise of disputed transactions during the pandemic
but it's coming at the expense of businesses that use them https://www.wsj.com/... Mike Dudas / @mdudas : “From mid-March until the end of April, credit-card holders contested 2-3x as many purchases a...
As Microsoft and Amazon push for federal regulation of facial recognition, an overview of related local laws that have been passed and tech lobbying efforts
Brian Fung / CNN : Tweets: @tobywalsh and @einsteinsattic Tweets: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon's face recognition bans don't go far enough: “We need a full-on recall of all of...
Tonik Financial, a digital banking startup in the Philippines, raises $21M co-led by Sequoia Capital and Point72 Ventures to launch its digital bank in Q3
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Boston-based Duck Creek Technologies, a software provider for insurers, raises $230M ahead of a planned IPO
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Boston-based Appfire, which has over 60 apps used by enterprises to enhance collaboration tools like Atlassian's Jira and Confluence, raises $49M
Vietnam-based Propzy, a real estate marketplace that also helps with financing, insurance, more, raises $25M Series A led by Gaw Capital, SoftBank Ventures Asia
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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.