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AWS hits $10B for the quarter putting it on a $40B run rate

New Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier faces a slew of challenges in the midst of pandemic

How this startup built and exited to Twitter in 1,219 days

Figma raises $50 million Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz

Material Bank, a logistics platform for sourcing architectural and design samples, raises $28M

Facebook now allows users in the U.S. & Canada to export photos and videos to Google Photos

Microsoft makes it easier to get started with Windows Virtual Desktops

Okta COVID-19 app usage report finds it’s not just collaboration seeing a huge uptick

Twitter Q1: sales up 3% to $808M as it swigs to a loss on COVID-19, mDAUS hit record 166M

Instagram ‘pods’ game the algorithm by coordinating likes and comments on millions of posts

The lockdown is driving people to Facebook

TikTok tops 2 billion downloads

Facebook stock spikes despite ‘significant reduction’ in demand for ads

The Complete Guide to NavigationView in SwiftUI

Twitter launches a COVID-19 data set of tweets for approved developers and researchers

Atlassian cofounder and co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes is coming to Disrupt SF 2020

Twitter says Elon Musk’s tweets advocating against expert COVID-19 guidance don’t violate its rules

Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abbey Kearns as CTO

Video app Marco Polo adds a subscription option amid coronavirus-led boost in usage

Google is making Meet free for everyone

Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud for $145M to beef up cloud security

Daily Crunch: Facebook organizes a virtual graduation ceremony

Spark fast follows with a $25M Series B round into customer success platform Catalyst

In surprise choice, Zoom hitches wagon to Oracle for growing infrastructure needs

Celonis pushes beyond process mining into automated workflow tooling

Tecton.ai emerges from stealth with $20M Series A to build machine learning platform

5 top gaming investors explain how the pandemic is reshaping MMOs and social games

Checkly raises $2.25M seed round for its monitoring and testing platform

SkyCell raises $62M for smart containers and analytics to transport pharmaceuticals

Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire

Factorial raises $16M to take on the HR world with a platform for SMBs

Seed investors take long view on promising enterprise startups

TikTok launches Donation Stickers, allowing creators to fundraise for coronavirus relief efforts

WhatsApp’s new limit cuts virality of ‘highly forwarded’ messages by 70%

Facebook to launch ‘virtual dating’ over Messenger for Facebook Dating users

Facebook launches drop-in video chat Rooms to rival Houseparty

Coronavirus could push consumers away from influencers and toward streaming TV

Telegram hits 400 million monthly active users

Facebook pulls ‘pseudoscience’ from its list of targeted ad categories

Stripe adds card issuing, localized card networks and expanded approvals tool

Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges

AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service

Twitter will remove dubious 5G tweets ‘that could potentially cause harm’

Facebook’s $5.7 billion bet on Indian giant Jio spells trouble for Amazon and Flipkart

Facebook and Instagram will now show location of posts from high-reach accounts targeting US audiences

Google Cloud’s fully-managed Anthos is now generally available for AWS

Human Capital is an engineering talent agency and a VC fund all in one

Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more

Granulate announces $12M Series A to optimize infrastructure performance

Medallia acquires voice-to-text specialist Voci Technologies for $59M

Comet.ml nabs $4.5M for more efficient machine learning model management

Fishtown Analytics raises $12.9M Series A for its open-source analytics engineering tool

Facebook agrees to restrict anti-government content in Vietnam after months of throttling

Facebook invests $5.7B in India’s Reliance Jio

Will China’s coronavirus-related trends shape the future for American VCs?

Snap surges on earnings revenue beat and Q1 user gains

Pulumi brings support for more languages to its infrastructure-as-code platform

Coronavirus-related Facebook support groups reach 4.5M in US as misinformation and conspiracies spread

AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch

And then there was one: Co-CEO Jennifer Morgan to depart SAP

Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation

Env0 announces $3.3M seed to bring more control to Infrastructure as Code

WhatsApp and WHO launch stickers to help people get through these tough times

ForgeRock nabs $93.5M for its ID management platform, gears up next for an IPO

Facebook Avatars, a Bitmoji competitor, launches in Europe

Levi’s partnered with TikTok on social commerce and doubled its product views

Facebook is pulling some protest events over stay-at-home violations

Verizon’s BlueJeans acquisition is about more than the work-from-home trend

Facebook launches COVID-19 data maps for the US, will take its symptom tracking efforts global

Facebook’s new Gaming app launches on Android, with iOS version coming soon

Facebook launches Fundraisers in India, expands partnerships with state governments for WhatsApp and Messenger helplines

Leverice is a team messenger app that’s taking aim at information overload

Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps

Sales startup People.ai lays off 18% of staff, raises debt round amid COVID-19 uncertainty

Trump’s hype for state lockdown protests puts Twitter and Facebook’s new COVID-19 policies to the test

Facebook adds new ‘care’ emoji reactions on its main app and in Messenger

Facebook wants content reviewers back ASAP, slows return plan for most employees

Daily Crunch: Verizon buys videoconferencing company BlueJeans

TikTok to launch parental controls globally, disable direct messaging for users under 16

Bridgecrew announces $14M Series A to automate cloud security

Verizon is buying B2B videoconferencing firm BlueJeans

Anodot grabs $35M Series C to help monitor business operations

Facebook will start alerting users who have interacted with ‘harmful misinformation’ about COVID-19

Investors explain COVID-19’s impact on consumer startups

VAST Data lands $100M Series C on $1.2B valuation to turn storage on its head

Houseparty reports 50M sign-ups in past month amid COVID-19 lockdowns

ServiceNow pledges no layoffs in 2020

Pileus helps businesses cut their cloud spend

DoD Inspector General report finds everything was basically hunky-dory with JEDI cloud contract bid

Pinpoint releases dashboard to bring visibility to software engineering operations

Frame AI raises $6.3M Series A to help understand customers across channels

Adriel brings automation to small business advertising

Replace non-stop Zoom with remote office avatars app Pragli

Replace non-stop Zoom with remote office avatars app Pragli

Facebook launches an experimental app for messaging close friends over Apple Watch

Stackery releases slew of updates to simplify serverless app deployment

How Adobe shifted a Las Vegas conference to executives’ living rooms in less than 30 days

Hallway creates a ‘virtual break room’ for remote workers using scheduled video chats

Incoming IBM CEO Arvind Krishna faces monumental challenges on multiple fronts