Daily Crunch - Google publishes coronavirus mobility reports

Friday, April 3, 2020 Posted by bloggerdaddy 0 comments
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Friday, April 03, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Google uses its ad-tracking data to provide a glimpse at how the world is responding to coronavirus, the CDC changes its tune on face masks and Apple accidentally reveals that AirTags are coming. Here’s your Daily Crunch for April 3, 2020.

Google is now publishing coronavirus mobility reports, feeding off users' location history

Google is giving the world a clearer look of exactly how much it knows about people everywhere — using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to repackage its persistent tracking of where users go and what they do as a public good in the midst of a pandemic.

In a blog post, the tech giant announced the publication of what it's calling COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports, an in-house analysis of the much more granular location data it maps and tracks to fuel its ad-targeting, product development and wider commercial strategy, now used to showcase aggregated changes in population movements around the world.

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CDC is expected to tell Americans to wear cloth masks, save medical masks for health workers

On Thursday, the White House said that it will likely adjust previous guidelines that discouraged non-health workers from wearing face masks. The change would be issued as "guidance" from the CDC, but according to President Trump, it will not be mandatory.

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Apple accidentally confirms the existence of an unreleased product, AirTags

In a video tutorial about resetting an iPhone to factory settings, at around the 1:43 mark, you can see an option for "Enable Offline Finding" is shown, and beneath that, the text references AirTags by name. AirTags are believed to be small tracking tiles with Bluetooth connectivity that can be used to find lost items — just like Tile.

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In the wake of COVID-19, UK puts up £20M in grants to develop resilience tech for critical industries

The idea is to introduce new technologies and processes that will support existing businesses and organizations, not to use the funding to build new startups from scratch.

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The pendulum will swing away from founder friendly venture raises

TechCrunch recently spoke with a half-dozen venture capitalists, asking after how their world has changed and how they are approaching dealmaking in the new reality. One common note was that startup valuations are declining. And past valuation adjustments, there's going to be more change. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

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SpaceX's latest Starship prototype fails under pressure testing

That headline might sound familiar: SpaceX's first prototype, the Mk1, was also destroyed during pressure testing of its fuel tank, and the next full-scale prototype under development, SN1, was also destroyed during a pressure test in late February.

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27 TV show recommendations from TechCrunch while you're stuck at home

I didn’t manage to get my recommendations to Matt Burns in time (sorry Matt!), but I will say that Star Trek — whether it’s the original series or the latest spinoff, “Picard” — is the best comfort viewing, now more than ever.

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Daily Crunch - Amazon announces new warehouse safety steps

Thursday, April 2, 2020 Posted by bloggerdaddy 0 comments
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Thursday, April 02, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Amazon says it will start taking additional steps to ensure the safety of its warehouse workers, SoftBank backs out of its latest WeWork investment and Zoom tries to fix its security issues. Here’s your Daily Crunch for April 2, 2020.

Amazon begins running temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses

Amazon has already taken some precautions, including mandatory paid 14-day quarantines for employees who test positive, as well as increased cleaning and sanitization efforts of families and infrastructure. The new measures to be introduced next week include taking temperatures of employees at the entrances to warehouses, with any individuals wth a fever of more than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit to be sent home, where they'll have to have three consecutive days without fever to return to work.

There have been a number of employee actions in response to Amazon's handling of the coronavirus crisis, including a walkout at the company's Staten Island warehouse.

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SoftBank terminates $3B tender offer for WeWork shares

SoftBank was already rumored to be getting cold feet when the Wall Street Journal reported last month that it was using regulatory investigations as a way to back out of its commitment to buy $3 billion in shares from existing WeWork shareholders.

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Zoom freezes feature development to fix security and privacy issues

Zoom has been widely criticized over the past couple of weeks for terrible security, a poorly designed screensharing feature, misleading dark patterns, fake end-to-end-encryption claims and an incomplete privacy policy. So the company says that for the next 90 days it’s enacting a feature freeze, which means it won’t ship any new feature until it is done fixing the current feature set. Zoom will also work with third-party experts and prepare a transparency report.

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Luckin Coffee's board initiates investigation into $300M potential fraud

In a filing with the SEC, the company's board announced that it has initiated an internal investigation into the activities of its former COO Jian Liu, who may have inflated revenues by the company by an early estimate of more than $300 million (RMB2.2 billion).

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How 6 top VCs are adapting to the new uncertainty

If you read VC Twitter, you might think that nothing has changed at all. It's not hard to find investors who say they are still cutting checks and doing deals. But as Q1 venture data trickles in, it appears that VC activity is gradually slowing down. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

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In a significant change, Apple customers can now buy or rent titles directly in the Prime Video app

For years, Amazon has prevented users from directly purchasing movies and TV shows from the Prime Video app on Apple devices as a way to avoid platform fees. A recent update changes that.

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Air Doctor scores $7.8M to connect travellers with local doctors

Founded in 2016, Air Doctor aims to empower travellers who get sick when abroad and need non-emergency advice or treatment. It has created a network of local private physicians that travellers can access, typically via travel insurance or perks.

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Daily Crunch - Zoom faces security scrutiny

Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Posted by bloggerdaddy 0 comments
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Researchers reveal a number of security issues with videoconferencing app Zoom, investors warn Indian startups of tough times ahead and Uber Eats expands its grocery options internationally. Here’s your Daily Crunch for April 1, 2020.

Maybe we shouldn't use Zoom after all

Zoom's recent popularity has shone a spotlight on the company's security protections and privacy promises. Yesterday, The Intercept reported that Zoom video calls are not end-to-end encrypted, despite the company's claims that they are.

In addition, two security researchers found a Zoom bug that can be abused to steal Windows passwords, while another researcher found two new bugs that can be used to take over a Zoom user's Mac, including tapping into the webcam and microphone.

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Investors tell Indian startups to 'prepare for the worst' as COVID-19 uncertainty continues

In an open letter to startup founders in India, 10 global and local private equity and venture capitalist firms — including Accel, Lightspeed, Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners — cautioned that the current changes to the macro environment could make it difficult for a startup to close their next fundraising deal.

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Uber Eats beefs up its grocery delivery offer as COVID-19 lockdowns continue

Uber's food delivery division has inked a partnership with supermarket giant Carrefour in France to provide Parisians with 30-minute home delivery on a range of grocery products. In Spain, it's partnered with the Galp service station brand to offer a grocery delivery service that consists of basic foods, over the counter medicines, beverages and cleaning products. And in Brazil, the company said it's partnering with a range of pharmacies, convenience stores and pet shops in São Paulo to offer home delivery on basic supplies.

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Grab hires Peter Oey as its chief financial officer

Prior to joining Grab, Oey was the chief financial officer at LegalZoom, an online legal services company based near Los Angeles. Before that, he served the same role at Mylife.com.

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How to value a startup in a downturn

What’s been happening in public markets is going to trickle down into the private markets — in other words, startups are going to take a hit. To understand that dynamic, we spoke with Mary D'Onofrio, an investor with Bessemer Venture Partners. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

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No proof of a Houseparty breach, but its privacy policy is still gatecrashing your data

Houseparty was swift to deny the reports of a breach and even go so far as to claim — without evidence — it was investigating indications that the "breach" was a "paid commercial smear to harm Houseparty," offering a $1 million reward to whoever could prove its theory.

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YouTube sellers found touting bogus coronavirus vaccines and masks

Researchers working for the Digital Citizens Alliance and the Coalition for a Safer Web — two online safety advocacy groups in the U.S. — undertook an 18-day investigation of YouTube in March, finding what they say were "dozens" of examples of dubious videos, including videos touting bogus vaccines the sellers claimed would protect buyers from COVID-19.

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