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Facebook bans ‘violent network’ of far-right boogaloo accounts

What 👁👄👁.fm means for Silicon Valley

Apple device management company Jamf files S-1 as it prepares to go public

With advertiser boycott growing, lawmakers press Facebook on white supremacy

Facebook says it will prioritize original reporting and ‘transparent authorship’ in the News Feed

Fivetran snares $100M Series C on $1.2B valuation for data connectivity solution

Hunters raises $15M Series A for its threat-hunting platform

Kong donates its Kuma control plane to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

TikTok goes down in India, its biggest overseas market

Upsolver announces $13M Series A to ease management of cloud data lakes

Facebook launches Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, in India

CodeGuru, AWS’s AI code reviewer and performance profiler, is now generally available

YouTube bans David Duke, Richard Spencer and other white nationalist accounts

Trump suspended from Twitch, as Reddit bans the ‘The_Donald’ and additional subreddits

Daily Crunch: Facebook faces an advertiser revolt

Mobile developer Tru Luv enlists investors to help build a more inclusive alternative to gaming

Facebook expands its fan subscription program

WWDC20: Wrap up and recommended talks

Newzoo forecasts 2020 global games industry will reach $159 billion

As advertisers revolt, Facebook commits to flagging ‘newsworthy’ political speech that violates policy

Fleetsmith customers unhappy with loss of third-party app support after Apple acquisition

Running a queer dating startup amid a pandemic and racial justice uprising

CIO Cynthia Stoddard explains Adobe’s journey from boxes to the cloud

Facebook will show users a pop-up warning before they share an outdated story

Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan will speak at Disrupt 2020

Salesforce announces a new mobile collaboration tool for sales called Anywhere

Privacy not a blocker for “meaningful” research access to platform data, says report

Why AWS built a no-code tool

AWS launches Amazon Honeycode, a no-code mobile and web app builder

Dell’s debt hangover from $67B EMC deal could put VMware stock in play

Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely

Slack announces Connect, an improved way for companies to talk to one another

Databricks acquires Redash, a visualizations service for data scientists

Airtable’s Howie Liu to join us at Disrupt 2020

Lightrun raises $4M for its continuous debugging and observability platform

Suse launches version 2.0 of its Cloud Foundry-based Cloud Application Platform

Cloud Foundry gets an updated CLI to make life easier for enterprise developers

Cape Privacy launches data science collaboration platform with $5.06M seed investment

India approves Facebook’s $5.7 billion deal with Reliance Jio Platforms

Twitter hides Trump tweet threatening protesters with ‘serious force’

Snapchat adds free phone number verification to its list of SDK perks

Antitrust case against Facebook’s ‘super profiling’ back on track after German federal court ruling

Facebook tests Forecast, an app for making predictions about world events, like COVID-19

Ampere announces latest chip with a 128 core processor

Salesforce introduces several new developer tools including serverless functions

On illegal hate speech, EU lawmakers eye binding transparency for platforms

What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 14

Hasura launches managed cloud service for its open-source GraphQL API platform

4 enterprise developer trends that will shape 2021

Canva raises $60 million on a $6 billion valuation

ServiceNow to acquire Belgian configuration management startup Sweagle

TikTok joins the EU’s Code of Practice on disinformation

HashiCorp to offer managed versions of its developer tools starting with Consul

Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports straight to the feds

Trump shared a deceptive video blaming ‘fake news.’ Twitter just labeled it as fake

Somehow, Twitter does not have a team dedicated to accessibility

Daily Crunch: Twitter rolls out audio tweets

Intercom announces the promotion of Karen Peacock to CEO

Flipboard rolls out Storyboards as a new way to highlight content

Payfone raises $100M for its mobile phone-based digital verification and ID platform

Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra says recession is the ‘perfect time’ to be aggressive for well-capitalized startups

13 Boston-focused VCs share the advice they’re giving portfolio companies

FCC Commissioner disparages Trump’s social media order: ‘The decision is ours alone’

Twitter begins rolling out audio tweets on iOS

Software will reshape our world in the next decade

Facebook adds option for US users to turn off political ads, launches voting info hub

Daily Crunch: Facebook will let you turn off political ads

Facebook tests the ability to share collections of curated content more publicly

Cloudtenna raises $2.5M, launches mobile search app to find content across cloud services

Onna, the ‘knowledge integration platform’ for workplace apps, raises $27M Series B

Uptycs lands $30M Series B to keep building security analytics platform

‘One day we were in the office and the next we were working from home’

Loodse becomes Kubermatic and open sources Kubernetes automation platform

Contentful raises $80M Series E round for its headless CMS

Outreach nabs $50M at a $1.33B valuation for software that helps with sales engagement

Google Cloud launches Filestore High Scale, a new storage tier for high-performance computing workloads

Canva design platform partners with FedEx Office as it pushes further into the U.S.

New Box tools should help ease creation of digitally driven workflows

Social networking app for women, Peanut, is rolling out video chat

How COVID-19 transformed the way Americans spend online

Extra Crunch Live: Join Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra for a live discussion of email, SaaS and buzzy businesses

Daily Crunch: WhatsApp launches payments

How Liberty Mutual shifted 44,000 workers from office to home

VESoft raises $8M to meet China’s growing need for graph databases

WhatsApp finally launches payments, starting in Brazil

ByteDance to shut down Vigo apps in India

The complicated calculus of taking Facebook’s venture money

Daily Crunch: Snapchat is getting mini apps

Snapchat looks to maintain its own friendships — with devs

Facebook’s ‘Deepfake Detection Challenge’ yields promising early results

UK competition watchdog launches investigation into Facebook’s $400M acquisition of Giphy

Gauging growth in the most challenging environment in decades

When it comes to social media moderation, reach matters

Snapchat boosts its AR platform with voice search, Local Lenses and SnapML

Facebook tests Wikipedia-powered information panels, similar to Google, in its search results

Chris Cox returns to the fold as Facebook’s chief product officer

Snap lets you play as your Bitmoji in third-party games

Snapchat redesigns its app with new action bar

OpenStack adds the StarlinkX edge computing stack to its top-level projects

Snap announces new slate of Snap Originals

Quolum announces $2.75M seed investment to track SaaS spending

InVision adds new features to Freehand, a virtual whiteboard tool, as user demand surges

Twitter appears to be testing a wider range of reactions to Tweets