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April 08, 2020Wed. 04/08 – The Desktop Web Is Back (for the time being…)
Jack Dorsey literally puts his money to work for Coronavirus relief. More details on that Airbnb lifeline raise. Details on an interesting telemedicine raise. Netflix has increased parental controls, Google is pushing a mandatory new setup for Android development and why the desktop web is back, for the time being anyway.
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@jack's tweet storm
Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1 Billion Financing Announced Monday (WSJ)
Airbnb In Talks To Raise More Debt (Bloomberg)
Update on Zoom’s 90-Day Plan to Bolster Key Privacy and Security Initiatives (Zoom Blog)
Netflix will allow parents to remove movies and shows, filter by rating in new update (The Verge)
Google is requiring Virtual A/B on new Android 11 devices, paving the way for mandatory Seamless Updates (XDA Developers)
Microsoft is freezing hiring except in some unspecified 'strategic areas' (Business Insider)
All Microsoft events will be digital-only until July 2021 (The Verge)
The Virus Changed the Way We Internet (NYTimes)
Restaurant management platform Toast cuts 50% of staff (TechCrunch)
Tyto Care raises $50 million to grow its telehealth examination and diagnostic platform (VentureBeat)
Google's video chat service adds 2 million users a day amid coronavirus (CNET)
Don’t be surprised when ‘Hangouts Meet’ becomes ‘Google Meet’ (9to5Google)
18 min
April 07, 2020Tue. 04/07 - The Latest Startup Gunning For Gmail
WhatsApp wants to make it harder for things to go viral. Airbnb buys some runway. Foursquare merges with another location data company. Checking in with Masa Son. And the latest startup to say it wants to blow up email and unseat Gmail.
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Links:
WhatsApp to impose new limit on forwarding to fight fake news (The Guardian)
Airbnb is raising $1 billion amid fallout from coronanvirus (CNBC)
Foursquare Merges With Factual, Another Location-Data Provider (WSJ)
Masayoshi Son Talks WeWork, Vision Fund and Softbank Under Siege (Forbes)
Pixel April updates land, bringing eyes-open face unlock setting to the Pixel 4 (Android Police)
Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t (KrebsonSecurity)
This tiny startup thinks it can do email better than Google (Protocol)

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17 min
April 06, 2020Mon. 04/06 – Happy Quibi Day!
Happy Quibi day everybody. Check out your Quick Bites for free while you can! Apparently the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is a hella powerful laptop, but that’s apparently why the battery life sucks. And the Covid-related conspiracy theory inspiring people to set cellphone towers on fire in Britain.
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Links:
Quibi app review: shifting landscape (The Verge)
How to stream Quibi (The Verge)
SAMSUNG GALAXY CHROMEBOOK REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL TO A FAULT (The Verge)
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review: Great, until the battery runs out (Engadget)
Tim Cook: Apple shipping custom face shields to medical workers as mask donations cross 20M (9to5Mac)
Call for social media platforms to act on 5G mast conspiracy theory (The Guardian)
Russian telco hijacks internet traffic for Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and others (ZDNet)
Microsoft Edge is now 2nd most popular desktop browser, beats Firefox (BleepingComputer)
18 min
April 03, 2020Fri. 04/03 - It’s An 80’s Style Free HBO Bonanza!
Tech companies are, in fact, stepping up to track Covid-19. We have a name for the new low-end iPhone. Tesla soars but the Space X Starship doesn’t. Watch some free HBO this weekend, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Google uses location data to show which places are complying with stay-at-home orders — and which aren’t (The Verge)
In coronavirus fight, oft-criticized Facebook data aids U.S. cities, states (Reuters)
PRIVACY EXPERTS SAY RESPONSIBLE CORONAVIRUS SURVEILLANCE IS POSSIBLE (The Intercept)
Exclusive: iPhone 9 launch imminent, 2020 ‘iPhone SE’ in red, white, and black with up to 256GB (9to5Mac)
Tesla soars on delivery numbers -- company delivered 88,400 vehicles in Q1 (CNBC)
A third prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket bursts on the test stand (The Verge)
Airbnb lowers internal valuation by 16% to $26bn (FT)
HBO Will Stream 500 Hours of Free Programming, Including Full Seasons of ‘Veep,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Silicon Valley’ (Variety)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Google Data Centers’ Secret Cost: Billions of Gallons of Water (Bloomberg Green)
Microsoft Edge is becoming the browser you didn’t know you needed (Ars Technica)
The Xbox Series X master plan (Polygon)
From courts to consoles: With live sports canceled, pro athletes join the streaming surge (The Washington Post)
Telemedicine, Once a Hard Sell, Can’t Keep Up With Demand (WSJ)
The Medical News Site That Saw the Coronavirus Coming Months Ago (NYTimes)
18 min
April 02, 2020Thu. 04/02 - Zoom Apologizes And Wow's On DAUs
Zoom apologizes, but also reveals some INSANE growth numbers. Facebook Messenger comes to desktop. YouTube wants to clone TikTok. Apple let’s some people avoid the App Store tax. More gross firings by teleconference and a timely interesting raise.
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Links:
A Message to Our Users (Zoom Blog)
Facebook debuts standalone Messenger app on Mac and PC (Engadget)
'Content network effect' makes TikTok tough to copy (TechCrunch)
YouTube Plans ‘Shorts’ to Rival TikTok (The Information)
Apple Lets Some Video Apps Sell Shows Without Taking 30% Cut (Bloomberg)
'It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode' The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar (dot.LA)
Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50 Million (NYTimes)
18 min
April 01, 2020Wed. 04/01 - The Zoom Privacy Storm
We’ve reached the end of the John Legere era. Samsung thinks we’ve reached the end of the LCD era. Comcast is inadvertently proving ISP datacaps are BS. Is Zoom a victim of its own success? And it’s maybe not overstating things to say it’s past time Amazon should start thinking more humanely about… people.
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Legere is out as T-Mobile CEO as Sprint merger officially closes (CNBC)
Samsung Display to end all LCD production by end 2020 (Reuters)
Marriott discloses new data breach impacting 5.2 million hotel guests (ZDNet)
Comcast waiving data caps hasn’t hurt its network—why not make it permanent? (Ars Technica)
Zoom Lets Attackers Steal Windows Credentials via UNC Links (Bleeping Computer)
@c1truz_ thread about Zoom
Amazon's Covid Hiring Boom Has Applicants Packed Into Job Fairs With No Special Precautions (Bloomberg)
Amazon Struggles to Find Its Coronavirus Footing. ‘It’s a Time of Great Stress.’ (WSJ)
Amazon's past catches up with it (The Interface)
19 min
March 31, 2020Tue. 03/31 - Apple Buys Dark Sky!
Snapchat launches its Stories syndication program. Fitbit has a powerful new fitness tracker. Microsoft and Spotify release some family friendly features and apps. It’s time for Zoom to come under the spotlight for privacy concerns. And a court has ruled that simply breaking a site's terms of service does not constitute criminal hacking.
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Apple purchases hyperlocal weather app Dark Sky, ending API and killing Android apps (9to5Mac)
Snapchat preempts clones, syndicates Stories to other apps (TechCrunch)
Surprise! Fitbit's First New Product Since Google Deal Is A Fitness Tracker (Gizmodo)
Microsoft announces Teams for consumers, Skype daily active users up 70% to 40 million (VentureBeat)
Microsoft 365 bundles Office 365 with AI and cloud-powered features (VentureBeat)
Spotify Brings Standalone Kids’ App to U.S., Featuring a ‘Wash Your Hands’ Playlist (Variety)
New York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices (NYTimes)
ZOOM MEETINGS AREN’T END-TO-END ENCRYPTED, DESPITE MISLEADING MARKETING (The Intercept)
Comcast says voice and video calls have skyrocketed 212 percent during widespread self-isolation (The Verge)
Apple Tests Its Secrecy Somewhere New: Employee Homes (Bloomberg)
Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal hacking (Ars Technica)
19 min
March 30, 2020Mon. 03/30 – HQ Trivia Back From The Dead!
HQ Trivia resurrects itself thanks to an anonymous investor. Facebook tries to squeeze Apple out of the AR screen market. Some crowdsourced data reveals who where layoffs are happening in tech but also which companies are still hiring. And a major hack takes down a big chunk of the dark web.
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TinyCapital.com
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Links:
HQ Trivia Returns Thanks to Anonymous Investor (WSJ)
Facebook Strikes Deal for AR Displays, Squeezing Out Apple (The Information)
Government Tracking How People Move Around in Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
Coronavirus has led to a 775 percent increase in usage of Microsoft Azure cloud services (BetaNews)
Apple's factories are running, but suppliers wary about iPhone demand (Reuters)
Candor: 267 companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, 111 are hiring (VentureBeat)
OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Space News)
Airbnb to Halt All Marketing, Most Hiring as Losses Mount (The Information)
Lyft Tells Drivers to Work for Amazon After Ridership Plummets (Bloomberg)
Bird lays off about 30% of workforce amid COVID-19 pandemic (TechCrunch)
Hack Attack Takes Down Dark Web Host: 7,595 Websites Confirmed Deleted (Forbes)
19 min
March 27, 2020Fri. 03/27 - Apple's Covid-19 App
Apple has released an official Covid-19 App. Kuo says Arm-based Macbooks are coming next year. Sony is spinning off a lot of the parts of itself that make it a tech company. Instacart workers are planning a nationwide strike on Monday. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
Apple releases new COVID-19 app and website based on CDC guidance (Apple Newsroom)
Kuo: Apple to Launch Several Macs With Arm-Based Processors in 2021, USB4 Support Coming to Macs in 2022 (MacRumors)
Sony Spins Off Camera Business Into Separate Company (PetaPixel)
Instacart’s Gig Workers Are Planning a Massive, Nationwide Strike (Motherboard)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Everything Is So Fucked, You Might As Well Get A Facebook Portal (Buzzfeed News)
We Need A Massive Surveillance Program (IdleWords.com)
Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers (Bloomberg)
Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? (Wired)
DJI Won the Drone Wars, and Now It’s Paying the Price (BusinessWeek)
We visited a small Virginia town where drone deliveries have begun for real (Input Magazine)
18 min
March 26, 2020Thu. 03/26 – No New iPhone Until 2021?
Apple is weighing its options, and delaying the release of the 5G iPhone until 2021 is being discussed. Airbnb is offering free housing for medical workers. An interesting raise Thursday that wants to be the flip side of Shopify in the ecommerce space. And a preview of Huawei’s upcoming Google-less flagship phone.
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Links:
Apple weighs delaying 5G iPhone launch by months, sources say (Nikkei Asian Review)
Apple Testing AR/VR Headset With HTC Vive-Like Controller, Crosswalk Bowling Game, and More (MacRumors)
What Qualcomm's new chips mean for upcoming true wireless earbuds (CNET)
Airbnb Hosts to Help Provide Housing to 100,000 COVID-19 Responders (Airbnb Newsroom)
TripActions, Zeus Living Laying Off Employees Due To COVID-19 Slowdown (Crunchbase News)
What it feels like to be laid off on Zoom during this crisis (Protocol)
Lime’s Valuation May Fall 80% in Emergency Fundraising (The Information)
StubHub furloughs employees, other ticket sites face challenges in wake of pandemic (ESPN)
Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, which is building a universal checkout service for e-commerce (TechCrunch)
LIVING A GOOGLE-FREE LIFE WITH A HUAWEI PHONE (The Verge)
17 min