Twitter introduces Tip Jar, allowing everyone using Twitter in English to send tips, and a limited group, including journalists and experts, to accept tips
We $ee you - sharing your PayPal link after your Tweet goes viral, adding your $Cashtag to your profile so people can support your work …
Court docs show Apple offered Hulu and some other “whitelisted developers” special access to App Store APIs, like the cancel/refund API
Today is the fourth day of the Epic Games v. Apple legal battle, and documents shared in the trial continue to give us insight into the App Store and Apple's business practices.
NY AG's office says fake comments, including 8.5M funded by largest US ISPs, accounted for ~18M of the 22M+ net neutrality comments received by the FCC in 2017
The New York attorney general's office released a new report detailing the effort — The New York attorney general's office issued …
Sources: Microsoft will not ship Windows 10X this year and the OS as it was announced will likely never ship as Microsoft concentrates on updating Windows 10
How to Install SUSE Enterprise Server in Windows 10 — WINDOWS 10, AND WINDOWS CLIENT OS — Back in the fall of 2019 …
Google says it will start verifying users with 2FA enabled using a prompt on their phones, and will soon start automatically enabling 2FA for all users
The company is making some changes to encourage more people to adopt a key digital security mechanism. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Square beats in Q1 with revenue of $5.06B, up 266% YoY, with $3.5B in bitcoin revenue, up 11x YoY, gross profit of $964M, up 79% YoY, with $495M from Cash App
- The company reported a profit per share of 41 cents vs. 16 cents per share expected in a Refinitiv survey of analysts.
Amazon says it will postpone Prime Day in India and Canada due to worsening spread of COVID-19, but the event will go on as planned in June in other countries
- Amazon confirmed to CNBC that it will pause Prime Day in India and Canada as the countries face worsening spread of the coronavirus.
Internal memo: Goldman Sachs informed its markets personnel that a newly created crypto trading desk successfully traded two kinds of bitcoin-linked derivatives
- The bank informed its markets personnel on Thursday that a newly created cryptocurrency trading desk had successfully traded …
Apple will probably win the Epic lawsuit, but the trial may motivate Apple to appease developers over the long-term and avoid even more embarrassing lawsuits
Hey everyone, it's Mark. I've been following the trial between Apple Inc. and Epic Games Inc. since Monday, and so far, it looks like Apple is scoring most of the wins.
Bill.com, a cloud-based payments service for SMBs, has agreed to acquire expense management software provider Divvy for $2.5B in cash and stock
The fintech Bill.com is buying Divvy, an expense reporting start-up, for $2.5 billion. — The deal, announced Thursday, calls for Bill.com …
A look at misconceptions about bitcoin's energy footprint, including how energy consumption does not equal carbon emissions, its use of unused resources, more
Summary. — Today, Bitcoin consumes as much energy as a small country. This certainly sounds alarming — but the reality is a little more complicated.
Bitski, which builds custom NFT storefronts for brands and creators, raises $19M Series A led by a16z and others including Jay-Z, MrBeast, and Serena Williams
Bitski, an SF-based startup that builds custom NFT storefronts for brands and creators, is banking on the latter, and they have new investors betting the same.
Q&A: Facebook Oversight Board director Thomas Hughes on upholding Trump's ban, why the Board isn't a PR stunt, Facebook refusing to answer its questions, more
Nicholas Suzar who “loved” a comparison between Trump & Hitler —Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a member of George Soros' Open Society Initiative —Jamal Greene who fantasized about Trump being shot 🤔 Dan P...
Netflix is surveying users about their interest in features such as podcasts and user-generated playlists of shows and music, for a project called N-Plus
not a guarantee it will ever exist. One thing the survey makes clear, though, is that Netflix wants to own more than just TV shows but the world of content around it. https://www.protocol.com/... Lanc...
Amazon partners with tracker maker Tile and smart lock maker Level to enhance the Sidewalk mesh network that Amazon is now using for its Echo and Ring devices
- Amazon partnered with Tile and smart lock maker Level to beef up its mesh network for tracking items.
Inside Zuckerberg's plan to repair Facebook's image, including whimsical jokes on his Page, more media appearances, and discussing product more than policy
During a companywide Q&A with Facebook employees last Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned to a question about a recent uptick … Tweets: @thekenyeung , @alexeheath , @sylviavarnham , @cedelros , @josh...
Google Play will add an App Store-like safety section starting next year, requiring apps to show details about the data they collect and other privacy info
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Roku beats estimates, with a Q1 net income of $76.3M on revenue of $574.2M, up 79% YoY; new active accounts grew 2.4M, reaching 53.6M, up 35% YoY; stock up ~7%
Todd Spangler / Variety :
How AI Dungeon, a text adventure game that uses the GPT-3 text generator, can create sex scenes involving children, and why attempts to stop it aren't working
Tom Simonite / Wired : Tweets: @hkanji , @yudhanjaya , @marklittlenews , @wired , @sesmith , and @etzioni Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : Users complained the AI would bring up sexual themes unbidd...
Dropbox beats Q1 estimates with $511.6M in revenue, up 12% YoY, with 15.83M paying users, up from 14.59M YoY, and average revenue per paying user of $132.55
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Cloudflare beats expectations in Q1 with revenue of $138.1M, up 51% YoY, vs est. of $131M, customer retention rate of 123%, and large customer count up 70% YoY
Tiernan Ray / ZDNet :
Drivers say Amazon's US delivery companies are ordering them to turn off an app called Mentor that is designed to prevent accidents by monitoring speed
Ada Support, which develops AI-driven customer support chatbots, raises $130M led by Spark Capital at a $1.2B valuation
- Zoom, Facebook use Ada bots for customer interactions — Spark, Tiger Global, Accel, Bessemer contribute $130 million — Chat bot startup Ada Support Inc …
Microsoft announces a new pledge for EU commercial users of Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365, allowing them to store most of their data in the EU by 2022
Liam Tung / ZDNet :
Researchers detail a new type of attack that could increase the energy consumption of neural networks by adding small amounts of noise to a network's inputs
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @techreview and @techreview Tweets: @techreview : The latest generation of neural networks are vulnerable to a new kind of attack that makes them use too m...
Nintendo reports record full-year profits of $6.2B, up 88% YoY, on net sales of $16.1B, up 34% YoY, and sold 28.2M Switch units in 2020, up 37.1% YoY
James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz :
Uber and Lyft have lost a combined market value of $20B+ in the week since the US labor secretary signaled intent to examine the classification of gig workers
Dave Lee / Financial Times :
Lightmatter, which is developing AI chips that use light signals rather than electrical signals, raises $80M Series B, bringing its total raised to about $113M
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Interviews with 17 current and former TikTok employees detail a dysfunctional workplace, beset by secrecy and poor management, as tensions with Trump mounted
and how it defeated Trump via excellent reporting by @abebrown716 @DawnC331 @forbes https://www.forbes.com/... Abe Brown / @abebrown716 : I spent months with @DawnC331 on a investigation into TikTok, ...
Material Bank, which runs an online marketplace for architectural and design sample materials, raises $100M Series C at a ~$1B valuation led by General Catalyst
Amy Feldman / Forbes :
Substack adds Sections to let writers set up and manage multiple newsletters or podcasts within one publication, a feature reminiscent of traditional newsrooms
a man who, these days, offers nothing but whining and grievance. Imagine what equally talented people who want to collaboratively build something *meaningful* could earn in *Year 5*? https://twitter.c...
Singapore-based Rainforest, which wants to consolidate Asia-Pacific Amazon Marketplace brands, raises $36M in seed funding led by Nordstar
IAC shareholders will vote on the spinoff of Vimeo on May 14; Vimeo posted Q1 revenue of $89.4M, up 57% YoY
Emily Bary / MarketWatch : See also Mediagazer
California regulators say neobank Chime has agreed to stop using the words “bank” and “banking” in ads
Huntress, which offers an endpoint security service to IT resellers, raises $40M Series B led by JMI, bringing its total raised to $60M
TikTok announces new tools for developers, including TikTok Login Kit, to let users sign into apps using TikTok credentials, and Sound Kit for sharing sounds
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.