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What does a pandemic say about the tech we’ve built?

Xerox drops $34B HP take-over bid amid COVID-19 uncertainty

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

Facebook launches a global version of its Community Help feature in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Palo Alto Networks to acquire CloudGenix for $420M

Microsoft launches Edge Zones for Azure

Xage adds full-stack data protection to blockchain security platform

Amid shift to remote work, application performance monitoring is IT’s big moment

Axonius nabs $58M for its cybersecurity-focused network asset management platform

Snapchat preempts clones, syndicates Stories to other apps

DataStax launches Kubernetes operator for open source Cassandra database

Facebook deletes Brazil President’s coronavirus misinfo post

Facebook Messenger preps Auto Status location type sharing

WeWork sells off social network Meetup to AlleyCorp and other investors

Muzmatch adds a button to video chat with a match’s dad

Atlassian’s Confluence gets a new template gallery

SMB loans platform Kabbage to furlough a ‘significant’ number of staff, close office in Bangalore

8 essential apps for iOS developers

Turbo Systems hires former Looker CMO Jen Grant as CEO

This Week in Apps: Apple launches a COVID-19 app, the outbreak’s impact on social and video apps and more

Social Bluebook was hacked, exposing 217,000 influencers’ accounts

Facebook launches Community Hub for Messenger users to fight coronavirus rumors

Facebook appoints Treasury’s Kimmitt as lead independent board director

It’s still easy to find coronavirus mask ads on Facebook

Tech giants should let startups defer cloud payments

Salesforce’s Benioff pledges no ‘significant’ layoffs for 90 days

Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks

Kaizo raises $3M for its AI-based tools to improve customer service support teams

Yaguara nabs $7.2M seed to help e-commerce companies understand customers better

People who mostly get news from social networks have some COVID-19 misconceptions

The future of collectibles is digital

Spotinst rebrands as Spot and announces new cloud spend dashboard

Humio announces $20M Series B to advance unlimited logging tool

Espressive lands $30M Series B to build better help chatbots

TripActions reportedly lays off hundreds amid COVID-19 travel freeze

Control each other’s apps with new screensharing tool Screen

Control each other’s apps with new screensharing tool Screen

Twitter is donating $1M across two foundations to support journalism during the coronavirus pandemic

Snapchat’s Zenly launches coronavirus Stay Home leaderboard

Pinterest launches a ‘Today’ tab featuring daily recommendations and trending topics

Facebook in talks to acquire stake in top Indian telco Reliance Jio, report says

Instagram launches Co-Watching of posts during video chat

GitLab offers key lessons in running an all-remote workforce in new e-book

The best video chat apps to turn social distancing into distant socializing

Startups are helping cloud infrastructure customers avoid vendor lock-in

Ceros launches MarkUp, a design collaboration tool for live websites

Facebook Messenger provides governments, agencies with free developer tools to combat Covid-19

Activist investor Starboard Value taking three Box board seats as involvement deepens

Box’s Aaron Levie says it will take creativity and focus to get through this crisis

With kids and adults staying at home, are virtual worlds ready for primetime?

Under quarantine, media is actually social

Twitter prioritizes blue-check verifications to confirm experts on Covid-19 and the novel coronavirus

AWS, IBM launch programs to encourage developers solving COVID-19 problems

Google cancels I/O developer conference in light of COVID-19 crisis

Instagram founder launches gift card site for quarantined restaurants

Tinder waives Passport fee to help users connect virtually around the world

Instagram prototypes Snapchat-style disappearing text messages

Facebook now lets most users opt-in to dark mode & desktop redesign

Daily Crunch: Facebook and Twitter fight coronavirus misinformation

Even in the age of COVID-19, you need to stay focused on the customer

Storj brings low-cost decentralized cloud storage to the enterprise

Twitter broadly bans any COVID-19 tweets that could help the virus spread

Facebook will put a new coronavirus info center on top of the News Feed

Big opening for startups that help move entrenched on-prem workloads to the cloud

Chinese cloud infrastructure market generated $3.3B in Q42019

Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app

Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app

Slack introduces simplified interface as usage moves deeper into companies

Slack introduces simplified interface as usage moves deeper into companies

Salesforce hires former banker Arundhati Bhattacharya as chairperson and CEO of India business

Beware of “ZoomBombing”: screensharing filth to video calls

Facebook is wrongly blocking some links, including coronavirus info

Spectro Cloud launches with $7.5M investment to help developers build Kubernetes clusters their way

Addapptation snares $1.3M seed to build a better UX for Salesforce

Torch & Everwise merge into affordable exec coaching for all

Hashicorp soars above $5B valuation in new $175M venture round

To make locks touchless, Proxy bluetooth ID raises $42M

This startup got a meeting with Mark Suster by getting clever with Google ads

Instagram uses its power to put Coronavirus tips atop feed

Pentagon asks court for time to reconsider JEDI award to Microsoft

Russian trolls are outsourcing to Africa to stoke US racial tensions

Yext aims to deliver more coronavirus-related answers by making its site search free

New Twitter client Brizzly+ lets you ‘edit’ and auto-delete your tweets

Senate bill seeks to ban Chinese app TikTok from government work phones

TikTok to open a ‘Transparency Center’ where outside experts can examine its moderation practices

Assembled raises $3.1M led by Stripe to build ‘the operating system for support teams’

AWS launches Bottlerocket, a Linux-based OS for container hosting

Hitachi Vantara acquires what’s left of Containership

Dell spent $67B buying EMC — more than 3 years later, was it worth the debt?

Twitter rewrites Developer Policy to better support academic research and use of ‘good’ bots

Facebook’s photo transfer tool opens to more users in Europe, LatAm and Africa

YC-backed Snapboard is a no-code platform for building internal tools

Electric reopens Series B to make room for Dick Costolo and Adam Bain

MessageBird launches Inbox.ai to ‘disrupt’ the customer service market

BackboneAI scores $4.7M seed to bring order to intercompany data sharing

Facebook’s board is its most gender-balanced yet with two new additions

TV advertising didn’t die, it just moved online

Facebook Stories tests cross-posting to its pet, Instagram

Silver Lake makes $1B investment into Twitter; Twitter, Elliott call truce as Dorsey remains CEO

Google’s Vint Cerf voices support for common criteria for political ad targeting

TFLiving, with $4.8M in seed funding, wants to be the Uber for amenities

Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica, fine could scale to $529BN