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    • Source: amid quarantines, Uber Eats recorded a 10% increase in US sales last week and a 30% increase in signups from people willing to deliver food (Amir Efrati/The Information)

    {$inline_image} Amir Efrati / The Information: Source: amid quarantines, Uber Eats recorded a 10% increase in US sales last week and a 30% increase in signups from people willing to deliver food  —  Uber Eats’ U.S. sales surged by around 10% last week from the week before, a nearly unprecedented uptick for this time of

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    • Six US Amazon warehouses have at least one worker testing positive for COVID-19, with some facilities temporarily shut for cleaning and some workers quarantined (Jay Greene/Washington Post)

    Jay Greene / Washington Post: Six US Amazon warehouses have at least one worker testing positive for COVID-19, with some facilities temporarily shut for cleaning and some workers quarantined  —  The spike in positive tests for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus comes as the ecommerce giant races to hire 100,000 workers to meet

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    • Telecoms are sneaking ‘stay home’ messages onto customers’ smartphones

    Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Some mobile phone operators, including Vodafone and Orange S.A., have started inserting coronavirus-related public health suggestions to stay indoors onto customers’ smartphones in recent days, using the small snippet of text that typically accompanies the connection signal symbols in the top left of a phone screen. According

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    • NY federal court issues preliminary injunction against Telegram's 2018 $1.7B ICO, finding the distribution of Gram tokens likely violates US securities law (Stephen Palley/The Block)

    Stephen Palley / The Block: NY federal court issues preliminary injunction against Telegram’s 2018 $1.7B ICO, finding the distribution of Gram tokens likely violates US securities law  —  The $1.7 billion 2018 fundraising effort by Telegram hit a major snag today when a Federal Judge in New York issued … NY federal court issues preliminary

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    • 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" (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

    Kate Rooney / CNBC: 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”  —  – Robinhood is looking to rebuild trust with users by offering credits to some customers affected by recent trading outages. After multiple outages, Robinhood

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    • Bandsintown will help musicians get faster access to Twitch monetization

    Image: Bandsintown Concert notification service Bandsintown has partnered with Twitch to help out artists who are unable to tour because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The partnership lets qualified Bandsintown artists bypass the normal qualifications needed to become a Twitch Affiliate and get fast access to the live streaming platform’s monetization tools. Canceled events are

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    • Yelp and GoFundMe team up to promote local business fundraisers, with GoFundMe campaigns automatically appearing on Yelp business profiles (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

    Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Yelp and GoFundMe team up to promote local business fundraisers, with GoFundMe campaigns automatically appearing on Yelp business profiles  —  Following the announcement that it’s committing $25 million in waived fees and free services to support local businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic … Yelp and GoFundMe team up to promote

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    Prime members first: Amazon is ranking customers and ramping up hiring to address coronavirus demand

    Amazon’s inability to deliver household staples such as toilet paper and bleach to many customers has led the company to reduce sales of nonessential items and prioritize shipping to members of its $119 a year Prime service. Prime members first: Amazon is ranking customers and ramping up hiring to address coronavirus demand Source: Washington Post

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    • While traffic surges on Facebook, with messaging up 50% from last month in many countries, their now-remote workforce struggles to handle its own IT snafus (New York Times)

    New York Times: While traffic surges on Facebook, with messaging up 50% from last month in many countries, their now-remote workforce struggles to handle its own IT snafus  —  The social network is straining to deal with skyrocketing usage as its 45,000 employees work from home for the first time. While traffic surges on Facebook,

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    • Apple updates Safari to fully block third-party cookies by default, months after Google said it would do the same in Chrome by 2022 (Nick Statt/The Verge)

    Nick Statt / The Verge: Apple updates Safari to fully block third-party cookies by default, months after Google said it would do the same in Chrome by 2022  —  Beating Google by two years to the privacy feature  —  Apple on Tuesday released a major update to its Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) … Apple

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    Apple updates Safari to fully block third-party cookies by default, months after Google said it would do the same in Chrome by 2022 (Nick Statt/The Verge)

    {$inline_image} Nick Statt / The Verge: Apple updates Safari to fully block third-party cookies by default, months after Google said it would do the same in Chrome by 2022  —  Beating Google by two years to the privacy feature  —  Apple on Tuesday released a major update to its Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) …

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