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Investigation: several staff members of the Chan-Zuckerberg family office have made allegations of assault, sexual harassment, and more, against other staff
Sources: Elliott Management has taken a "sizable" stake in Twitter, nominated four directors to Twitter's board, and seeks to replace CEO Jack Dorsey
Developers say Mac Catalyst is great for providing mouse and window support for iPad apps and porting simpler apps but struggles with complicated ones
Organizers announce that this year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed from March to summer amid COVID-19 concerns
Accolade, provider of a health care platform for employees to manage benefits, files to raise up to $100M in IPO; PitchBook: Accolade is valued around $620M
Facebook says its 3D Photos feature, which retroactively converts 2D photos to 3D using neural nets, now works on photos taken with single-lens cameras
Analysis of 15K+ funding rounds raised by 12K+ startups shows seed rounds getting bigger: 3M+ rounds were 7.8% of total in period 2015-17, and 17% for 2018-20
The competition between GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates, and UberEats illustrates the importance of expanding supply and focusing on growth over profits
Amazon has started restricting all non-essential travel by employees in the US as the coronavirus continues to spread
cnbc.com · 12 hours ago
FCC proposes fines of $91M for T-Mobile, $57M for AT&T, $48M for Verizon, and $12M for Sprint for sharing customers' location information with outside parties
Facebook to start rolling out a redesign for Messenger next week that removes the Discover tab, reorients the People tab around Stories, and hides chat bots
Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year
Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers
Amazon restricts employee travel in US, Google restricts travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea as a Google employee in Zurich is diagnosed with COVID-19
theverge.com · 12 hours ago
Counterpoint: iPhone XR was the best selling phone globally for 2019, followed by the iPhone 11, with the Samsung Galaxy A50 coming in third
Inside the bitter battle Carl Icahn-backed Xerox is waging to take over HP and its printer business, potentially sparking a fight worth at least $35B
Amazon says it has barred 1M+ products from sale in recent weeks that had inaccurately claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus
reuters.com · 14 hours ago