Toronto-based remote training firm Synapse raises ~$2M seed (equity and debt)

Google adds captions for video and voice messages in Duo on

Germany-based payments firm Wirecard will be removed from the Deutsche Börse

BeaTrust, a Japan-based enterprise collaboration platform, raises ~$2.8M seed from

Alphabet-owned investment firm GV cuts seven employees, equal to 8 percent

Instagram starts showing posts from accounts a user does not already

Japan-based space startup Ispace raises $28M Series B led by Incubate

UK-based workplace collaboration startup Riff raises $1.5M seed led by Balderton

Used clothing marketplace ThredUp is planning an IPO for early next

Several Google services including Gmail and Drive suffer an outage; anecdotal

President Trump says he has heard followers of QAnon are “people

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says it’s not possible for the company

Data analytics firm Palantir is moving its HQ from Palo Alto

Airbnb confidentially files for IPO; the company hasn't determined the volume

New York City-based Welcome, which offers a job offer and closing

Facebook employees are pressing leadership to address political favoritism and bias

Facebook announces a new feature enabling page administrators to identify their

FritzFrog botnet infects SSH servers to create a peer-to-peer network with

Facebook announces that, in efforts to combat far-right conspiracy theory QAnon,

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Zoom announces coming support for Echo Show, Facebook Portal, and Google

Microsoft and the Department of Energy to co-develop AI-powered disaster response

Apple becomes the first US company to pass a $2T market

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