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The Daily Download - tech news for 2020-05-29


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Uber launches Work Hub in the UK, a service to connect
SoftBank has doubled the compensation for Rajeev Misra, CEO of its
Fintech firm Marqeta raises $150M on a $4.3B post-money valuation from
China’s foreign ministry claims Canada is an accomplice of the US
CVS partners with Nuro to start testing driverless medical prescription deliveries
Fintech firm Belvo (YC W20) raises $10M led by Founders Fund
ACLU files a lawsuit against facial recognition firm Clearview AI in
Didi Chuxing’s driverless unit raises more than $500M led by SoftBank’s
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo criticizes Facebook, saying the platform “largely
Twitter rolls out the ability to schedule tweets from its web
The New York Times posits President Trump’s executive order could see
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz announces he will step down; he
Twitter flags a tweet from President Trump in which he references
Tesla approves the first tranche of Elon Musk’s multi-million-dollar performance-related compensation
President Trump's executive order targeting Section 230 protections for online platforms
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook and other social networks should not fact
Salesforce ($163B market cap) FQ1 beats: $4.87B revenue, up 30 percent
VMWare ($60B market cap) FQ1 beats: $2.73B revenue, up 12 percent
Cisco ($1.93B market cap) acquires digital experience monitoring and analytics company
Update: President Trump signs executive order targeting the perceived bias of
Tencent raises $6B via dollar bond sale; represents the largest dollar
Qualcomm announces its first chips supporting Wi-Fi 6E, which promises faster,
Twitter applies fact-checking labels to hundreds of tweets; the company recently
Facebook to verify the identities of people operating accounts displaying patterns
This Week in Startups: The Power of Accelerators E6Jason speaks with
YouTube is rolling out its chapters feature to all users across
Hulu begins testing Launch Party, a social feature, currently limited to
Update: President Trump signs executive order targeting the perceived bias of
Amazon plans to offer permanent jobs to ~70 percent of the
ByteDance's hiring of Disney EVP and Chairman Kevin Mayer to serve
Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X will, at launch, have the ability
Google announces a pending change in Search ranking based on page
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar