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Twitter flags Republican leader’s video as ‘manipulated’ for altering disabled activist’s words

Facebook partially documents its content recommendation system

TikTok’s rivals in India struggle to cash in on its ban

Steno raises $3.5 million led by First Round to become an extension of law offices

Facebook tests linking your FB account to your news subscriptions

Daily Crunch: TikTok’s CEO resigns

Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming ad tracking restrictions

Facebook sues developers who violated terms to collect user data, sell fake ‘likes’

Box benefits from digital transformation as it raises its growth forecast

Facebook removes ‘Kenosha Guard’ militia account after shooter kills two at protest

How Salesforce beat its own target to reach $20B run rate ahead of schedule

COVID-19 is driving demand for low-code apps

Salesforce confirms it’s laying off around 1000 people in spite of monster quarter

Instagram Guides may soon allow creators to recommended places, products and more

Twitter experiments with adding a ‘Quotes’ count to tweets

Facebook updates Messenger Rooms as Zoom sits at top of the App Store

LaunchNotes raises a $1.8M seed round to help companies communicate their software updates

Cisco acquiring BabbleLabs to filter out the lawn mower screeching during your video conference

Max Schrems on the EU court ruling that could cut Facebook in two

Facebook News to expand internationally to the U.K., Germany, France, India and Brazil

Industry experts say it’s full speed ahead as Snowflake files S-1 to go public

New Zendesk dashboard delivers customer service data in real time

Eden intros SaaS tools in a bid to become a more comprehensive office management platform

Facebook is bringing a Shop section to its app, while Instagram expands Live Shopping

After restricting a group critical of Thailand’s monarchy, Facebook says it will take legal action against the government

Microsoft brings transcriptions to Word

MIT CSAIL grad launches machine learning platform with $10M Series A

Google Cloud Anthos update brings support for on-prem, bare metal

Palo Alto Networks to buy digital forensics consulting firm for $265M

Daily Crunch: TikTok sues the US government

Sutter Hill strikes ice-cold, $2.5B pre-market return with Snowflake’s IPO filing

TikTok-rival Triller inks deal with Reliance’s JioSaavn in India push

Facebook to pay $125 million in back taxes in France, report says

Meet the anti-antitrust startup club

Box CEO Aaron Levie says thrifty founders have more control

This subscription social network is happy to be an Albatross in a pandemic

As the pandemic creates supply chain chaos, Craft raises $10M to apply some intelligence

Facebook trails expanding portability tools ahead of FTC hearing

Overlooked teams up with college newspapers to build a news-focused social network

Zoom UX teardown: 5 fails and how to fix them

Figma CEO Dylan Field discusses fundraising, hiring and marketing in stealth mode

Author and former professional poker player Annie Duke on how conspiracy theories gain ground

Further delay to GDPR enforcement of 2018 Twitter breach

Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?

Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?

Twitter claims increased enforcement of hate speech and abuse policies in last half of 2019

Top Facebook executive in India files criminal complaint against a journalist for sharing news report

A pandemic and recession won’t stop Atlassian’s SaaS push

Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn to discuss building a company with a bold idea at TechCrunch Disrupt

Piggyback on popular Tweets to get brand awareness

Decrypted: The block clock tick-tocks on TikTok

Melbourne-based CI/CD platform Buildkite gets $28 million AUD Series A led by OpenView

Wix unifies customer support channels with Wix Answers

Movable Ink raises $30M as it expands its personalization technology beyond email marketing

Deepfake video app Reface is just getting started on shapeshifting selfie culture

Canalys: Google is top cloud infrastructure provider for online retailers

SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation

Indian lawmakers accuse Facebook of political bias

Facebook pushes back against Apple’s App Store fees

Facebook launches support for paid online events

Warner Music acquires IMGN, a social media publishing platform, for under $100M

Facebook tests TikTok-style video format on its main app in India

Facebook users are pretty bad at telling how much time they spend on it

Instagram wasn’t deleting photos and direct messages off its servers

TikTok rival Likee reaches 150M monthly users worldwide

Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes

Slack and Atlassian deepen their partnership with deeper integrations

Twitter pledges to dial up efforts to combat election misinformation

Bracing for election day, Facebook rolls out voting resources to U.S. users

ByteDance in talks with India’s Reliance for investment in TikTok

Digitizing Burning Man

When you need content to build links, use social proof of concept

Former COO sues Pinterest, accusing it of gender discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination

Stacklet launches cloud governance platform with $4.4M seed investment

UK eyeing disclosure labels for online political campaigning

Gong raises another $200M on $2.2B valuation

Adaptive Shield raises $4M for its SaaS security platform

TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ MAC addresses until late last year

Twitter now lets everyone limit replies to their tweets

Emergence’s Jason Green still sees plenty of opportunities for enterprise SaaS startups

TikTok is being investigated by France’s data watchdog

Parsable scores $60M Series D as pandemic forces faster digitization of industrial sector

TikTok is reportedly planning to challenge the Trump administration ban

ByteDance valuation under huge pressure as TikTok sale nears

Beware bankers talking TikTok

Wendell Brooks has resigned as president of Intel Capital

Facebook extends coronavirus work from home policy until July 2021

Daily Crunch: Twitter and Facebook take action against Trump

Twitter adds labels for government officials and state-controlled media

Attorneys general from twenty states call on Facebook to do more to fight discrimination, disinformation and harassment

Mode raises $33M to supercharge its analytics platform for data scientists

Crossbeam announces $25M Series B to keep growing partnerships platform

WordPress.com launches new P2 to take on internal communication tools

TikTok announces first data center in Europe

Facebook just took down a Trump post that claimed kids are immune to COVID-19

Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh

TikTok updates policies to ban deepfakes, expand fact-checks, and flag election misinfo

Datafold is solving the chaos of data engineering

PandaDoc announces second Series B extension worth $30M

Instagram Reels launches globally in over 50 countries, including US

Kubermatic launches open source service hub to enable complex service management

Harness makes first acquisition, snagging open source CI company Drone.io