Fintech firm Empower Finance raises $20M Series A from Icon Ventures,

TX-based space tourism firm Axiom Space signs a deal with SpaceX

UK-based hearing assistance app ChatableApps raises an undisclosed sum from Mark

The board of chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has nominated president Kurt Sievers

TikTok names Roland Cloutier as its first chief information security officer;

Greece-based SaaS startup Convert Group raises €1.2M (~$1.3M) seed; the company

Microsoft says it will continue to pay some hourly workers their

A Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) employee has been diagnosed with the

Nvidia acquires data handling firm SwiftStack; terms undisclosed; SwiftStack offers data

Oppo announces 6.7-inch Find X2 Pro, featuring a 120Hz refresh rate

Sequoia Capital sends a memo to its portfolio companies, calling coronavirus

Mobility firm Lime cuts 15 jobs, reports The Information; the company

Royalty attribution firm Pex acquires rights management platform Dubset; terms undisclosed,

Twitch signs popular video game streamer Imane “Pokimane” Anys to a

The Central Bank of India (CBI) has seized control of Yes

Western Digital names David Goeckeler as CEO; Goeckeler is joining from

Sonos announces it’s ending its Recycle Mode process, a software tool

Apple starts to block apps related to the coronavirus unless they

Microsoft says two of its employees have contracted coronavirus; one of

Twitter expands its hate speech rules to include content that dehumanizes

Amazon has removed tens of thousands of items listed by third-party

Berkeley-based quantum computing company Rigetti raises $71M Series D, reportedly at

Sens Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduce the Kids

Lyft sends its San Francisco employees home after one worker had

Amazon and Facebook shut down Seattle-area offices after workers at each

Virgin Media exposed data belonging to ~1M customers via a marketing

Facebook blocks ads from President Trump's reelection campaign, cites policy on

Facebook files suit against domain registrar Namecheap and proxy service Whoisguard,

Jack Dorsey says he's reevaluating his plan to spend three to

Sens Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduce the Eliminating

Google to transition entirely to mobile-first indexing by September; the company

An international coalition of government agencies releases voluntary guidelines for companies

VA-based Babel Street uses data from popular apps to track smartphone

Pasadena-based Wolfcom, which produces police body cameras and management software, is

Privacy-focused search engine and browser tech company DuckDuckGo launches Tracker Radar,

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