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Thursday, April 23, 2020

Apple clears bills of partners in India for 2 months

Apple has also provided an additional credit period of 60 days to help them tide over business disruptions due to Covid-19. https://ift.tt/350mN5X https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19 (Tom Simonite/Wired)

Tom Simonite / Wired:
Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19 — People who've lost jobs and are stuck indoors are turning to crowd work—filling out online surveys and transcribing audio for less than the minimum wage.

Some startups mandate Aarogya Setu, others wary

Many companies unsure whether to ask delivery and warehouse staff to install it due to privacy concerns https://ift.tt/2VACRIG https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

WhatsApp Pay to comply with all rules in India by May

A full-fledged rollout of WhatsApp Pay has not been approved for over two years due to concerns over its data storage policy in India https://ift.tt/3bycQPv https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Reliance Jio & Facebook differ on key policy issues

Facebook and Reliance Jio's views diverge sharply on the matter of providing access to private social media data to law enforcement authorities. https://ift.tt/2VRP7mV https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Amazon confirms a major outbreak of COVID-19 at a NJ warehouse after employee says 30+ are infected, as Amazon is set to end unlimited unpaid time off April 30 (Charles Davis/Business Insider)

Charles Davis / Business Insider:
Amazon confirms a major outbreak of COVID-19 at a NJ warehouse after employee says 30+ are infected, as Amazon is set to end unlimited unpaid time off April 30 — - Over 30 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, New Jersey, have contracted COVID-19, according to sources at the facility.

Expedia names Peter Kern, previously vice chairman, to CEO; Eric Hart to become CFO as the company faces a ~40% dip in stock price in 2020 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Expedia names Peter Kern, previously vice chairman, to CEO; Eric Hart to become CFO as the company faces a ~40% dip in stock price in 2020 — - Private equity firms Apollo, Silver Lake invest in the company — Media mogul Barry Diller had been helping run Expedia

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Google says state-backed hackers increasing Covid-19 phishing attacks

Security experts at Alphabet Inc’s Google have identified more than a dozen government-backed hacking groups using the COVID-19 pandemic as cover for phishing and malware attempts. https://ift.tt/3bxHMPX

Google Stadia gains users after giving free access for two months

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Donald Trump signs immigration ban, but exempts H1-B professional visa-holders

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order banning many categories of immigration to the US for 60 days but it does not apply to H1-B professional visa-holders. https://ift.tt/2xR20Wk

TIM, Vodafone launch sale of 8% stake in Italy's INWIT

Telecom Italia (TIM) and Vodafone said on Wednesday they had agreed to launch the sale of an 8% stake in Italy's biggest mobile tower company INWIT on a pro-rata basis as part of their efforts to cut debt. https://ift.tt/2KnNyYu

LendingClub says it is laying off 460 employees, ~30% of its workforce, including President Steven Allocca, to slash costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic (Bharath Manjesh/Reuters)

Bharath Manjesh / Reuters:
LendingClub says it is laying off 460 employees, ~30% of its workforce, including President Steven Allocca, to slash costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic — (Reuters) - Online lender LendingClub Corp (LC.N) said on Tuesday it would lay off 460 employees, including President Steven Allocca …