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    • Der Spiegel: US dollar could make up 50% of the basket of currencies backing Libra, followed by 18% of euro, 14% yen, 11% British pound, and 7% Singapore dollar (Reuters)

    Reuters: Der Spiegel: US dollar could make up 50% of the basket of currencies backing Libra, followed by 18% of euro, 14% yen, 11% British pound, and 7% Singapore dollar  —  BERLIN (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar will make up 50% of the basket of currencies backing Facebook’s planned digital coin Libra … Der Spiegel:

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    • Sources: several WeWork directors, including SoftBank members, plan to push for Adam Neumann to step down as CEO (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Sources: several WeWork directors, including SoftBank members, plan to push for Adam Neumann to step down as CEO  —  SoftBank officials are among those expected to push for Neumann ouster  —  A bloc of WeWork directors is planning to push Adam Neumann to step down as chief executive … Sources: several WeWork

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    • A look at STOP ransomware, which has been one of the most actively distributed ransomware in the past year, according to the ID Ransomware database (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

    Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A look at STOP ransomware, which has been one of the most actively distributed ransomware in the past year, according to the ID Ransomware database  —  Have you ever heard of the STOP Ransomware?  Probably not, as few write about it, most researchers don’t cover it, and for the most part

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    • Sources: anti-Amazon "grass roots" non-profit FFMI, which actively lobbies and influences media op-eds, is funded by Walmart, Oracle, other Amazon competitors (James V. Grimaldi/Wall Street Journal)

    James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal: Sources: anti-Amazon “grass roots” non-profit FFMI, which actively lobbies and influences media op-eds, is funded by Walmart, Oracle, other Amazon competitors  —  Walmart, Oracle and mall owner Simon Property Group are secret funders behind a nonprofit that has been highly critical of the e-commerce giant Sources: anti-Amazon "grass

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    • New data from Kruze Consulting finds 60% of funded startups paid for Slack, while only 12% paid for the Office software bundle that includes Teams (Rani Molla/Vox)

    Rani Molla / Vox: New data from Kruze Consulting finds 60% of funded startups paid for Slack, while only 12% paid for the Office software bundle that includes Teams  —  Nearly 60 percent of funded startups pay for Slack — much higher than the rate for Microsoft Teams.  —  Slack is still king at startups.

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