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Google says G Suite now has over 6M paying businesses, up from 5M in February 2019, and that Google Meet has 25 times more users than it did in January 2020
Profile of Min-Liang Tan, the co-founder and CEO of global gaming giant Razer, one of the few companies managing to thrive in the disrupted business landscape
Twitter CEO sets aside $1 billion in Square equity for charity, coronavirus relief
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is 3D printing parts for face shields to help fight the coronavirus crisis
New Jersey needs volunteers who know COBOL, a 60-year-old programming language
Samsung forecasts Q1 2020 operating profit of $5.2B, up 2.7% YoY, beating analyst estimates, and consolidated sales of ~$44B; stock is up 3%+
SpaceX coronavirus cases rise to six employees as Musk’s company continues ‘mission essential’ work
Airbnb raises $1B in debt and equity from Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners; source: the funding doesn't depend on its performance or a target date for IPO
Amazon is tracking warehouse workers and says it could fire them for violating social distancing rules
Reddit · 2 days ago
Facebook says it's releasing new Data for Good tools including Disease Prevention Maps to help public health researchers track social distancing efforts
Apple will produce 1 million face shields per week for medical workers
How Silicon Valley food caterers, event planners, venue owners, models, DJs, and others who relied on tech parties and events are coping with the loss of income
Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m
European countries, including France and Germany, are offering billions of euros to support tech startups during COVID-19; the UK is facing calls to do similar
Amazon blocks sale of N95 masks to the public, begins offering supplies to hospitals
Reddit · 6 days ago
How Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is supporting its clients' transitions from in-person dining to takeout and delivery services
Analysis finds that almost 4,000 jobs across 40+ US startups, operating in sectors including hospitality, transportation, and AI, were eliminated in March
Huawei reports net profit of $9B for 2019, up 5.65% YoY, its slowest growth since 2016, on revenue of $123B, up 19.1% YoY, says it's impacted by US blacklist
Airbnb will issue full refunds for trips starting on or before May 31 booked before March 14, will make a $250M fund to pay hosts 25% of regular cancelation fee
Alphabet’s Verily ramps up drive-thru coronavirus testing with 1,000 Google volunteers
Slack CEO says the company is working on Microsoft Teams integrations for calling features
SEC pauses Zoom Technologies trading because people think it’s Zoom Video
33 US state AGs call on Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Walmart, and Craigslist to take proactive measures to prevent price gouging on products related to COVID-19
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
On Twitter, Slack CEO discussed some of the dramatic changes Slack has seen over the last few weeks, like quickly adding 9K net new customers; stock up 10%+
Interviews with 12 Amazon warehouse workers: limited options from Amazon are forcing them to work in crowded warehouses with few essentials, like sanitizers
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Facebook’s Portal TV video chat device was mocked — now it’s completely sold out
How volunteers from tech companies and epidemiologists worked together to build the US-focused COVID-19 data aggregation website covidnearyou.com in six days
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
WHO partners with Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech companies on #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon to develop software tackling COVID-19 challenges, starting Mar. 26
After multiple outages, Robinhood says it has fixed an issue with an internal messaging system and will offer credits to some users on a "case-by-case basis"
Instagram announces Co-Watching, a feature that lets users browse the app together over video chat
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Bill Gates says the US missed its chance to avoid coronavirus shutdown and businesses should stay closed
In a letter to Trump, Uber CEO seeks updated labor laws to provide a "third way" of classifying workers, between contractors and employees
Federal Reserve pledged asset purchases with no limit to support markets
NYSE readies itself for first ever all-electronic trading day
Facebook's efforts to help governments, emergency response orgs, SMBs, its employees, and users during the pandemic could help improve its tarnished reputation
Apple has updated Siri to help US users asking if they have COVID-19, with answers coming from the US Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC
Senators urge Jeff Bezos to give Amazon warehouse workers sick leave, hazard pay
Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Google’s big developer conference is now completely canceled because of coronavirus
FCC approves SpaceX to deploy up to 1 million small antennas for Starlink internet network
AWS commits $20M and launches a diagnostics development unit, with 35 partner orgs, to accelerate research to find a faster, more affordable test for COVID-19
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft have lost a combined $1.3T in value since the market peak on Feb. 19; Facebook led the decline, dropping ~30%
Amazon temporarily closes its Prime Pantry delivery service throughout the US due to "high order volumes" tied to the coronavirus outbreak
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago