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TikTok stars got a judge to block Trump’s TikTok ban

Facebook hits pause on algorithmic recommendations for political and social issue groups

Facebook is limiting distribution of ‘save our children’ hashtag over QAnon ties

Cloud infrastructure revenue grows 33% this quarter to almost $33B

Twitter revenue rises 14%, but user growth fails to impress

Donut launches Watercooler, an easy way to socialize online with coworkers

Intel acquires SigOpt, a specialist in modeling optimization, to boost its AI business

More chip industry action as Marvell is acquiring Inphi for $10B

Twitter’s API access changes are chasing away third-party developers

Redpoint and Sequoia are backing a startup to copy edit your shit code

Sinch announces Conversation API to bring together multiple messaging tools

Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel

Trump hints at stopping “powerful” big tech in latest ‘get out the vote’ tweet

LinkedIn’s Career Explorer helps you identify new kinds of jobs based on the skills you have

We need new business models to burst old media filter bubbles

True, the social networking app that promises to ‘protect your privacy,’ exposed private messages and user locations

Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith is buying majority stake in the Utah Jazz for $1.6B

Kandji hauls in $21M Series A as Apple device management flourishes during pandemic

That dreadful VPN might finally be dead thanks to Twingate, a new startup built by Dropbox alums

Enso Security raises $6M for its application security management platform

MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform

Daily Crunch: Zoom adds end-to-end encryption to free calls

Instagram extends time limits on live streams to 4 hours, will soon support archiving

Upstream aims to be the new home for your professional social life

Rockset announces $40M Series B as data analytics solution gains momentum

Lightyear scores $3.7M seed to digitize networking infrastructure procurement

Vimeo introduces free video messaging with Vimeo Record

Top Facebook India executive Ankhi Das leaves the company

TikTok partners with Shopify on social commerce

SimilarWeb raises $120M for its AI-based market intelligence platform for sites and apps

AMD grabs Xilinx for $35 billion as chip industry consolidation continues

Face to Face, Tinder’s opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally

Video creation and editing platform InVideo raises $15 million

Former Facebook and Pinterest exec Tim Kendall traces “extractive business models” to VCs

Daily Crunch: Facebook launches cloud gaming service

Decrypted: How Twitter was hacked, GitHub DMCA backfires

Twitter starts showing all US users election misinformation warnings

Freshworks (re-)launches its CRM service

DataFleets keeps private data useful and useful data private with federated learning and $4.5M seed

The No-Code Generation is arriving

SAP shares fall sharply after COVID-19 cuts revenue, profit forecast at software giant

Dropbox begins shift to high efficiency Western Digital Shingled Magnetic Recording disks

Daily Crunch: Facebook Dating comes to Europe

Extra Crunch Partner Perk: Get 6 months free of Zendesk Support and Sales CRM

President Trump’s Twitter accessed by security expert who guessed password ‘maga2020!’

3 reforms social media platforms should make in light of ‘The Social Dilemma’

Facebook’s controversial Oversight Board starts reviewing content moderation cases

Customer experience and digital transformation concepts are merging during the pandemic

Harness delivers enterprise continuous integration on heels of Drone.io acquisition

Facebook adds hosting, shopping features, and pricing tiers to WhatsApp Business

Facebook adds hosting, shopping features, and pricing tiers to WhatsApp Business

Facebook Dating launches in Europe after 9-month+ delay over privacy concerns

TikTok details how it’s taking further action against hateful ideologies

Secureframe raises $4.5M to help businesses speed up their compliance audits

Contrast launches its security observability platform

Lessons from Datto’s IPO pricing and revenue multiple

Wrike launches new AI tools to keep your projects on track

Facebook is working on Neighborhoods, a Nextdoor clone based on local groups

Gowalla is being resurrected as an augmented reality social app

Egnyte introduces new features to help deal with security/governance during pandemic

Google announces slew of Chrome OS features to help extend enterprise usage

Call analytics platform Invoca expands into sales, e-commerce and customer experience

Instagram rolls out fan badges for live videos, expands IGTV ads test

Stampli, an invoice management software startup, launches a payments product

Microsoft debuts Azure Space to cater to the space industry, partners with SpaceX for Starlink datacenter broadband

Handshake raises $80M more to build a more diversity-focused LinkedIn for college students

Splunk acquires Plumbr and Rigor to build out its observability platform

Vectary, a design platform for 3D and AR, raises $7.3M from EQT and Blueyard

Dublin’s LearnUpon raises $56M for its online learning management system for enterprises

Intel agrees to sell its NAND business to SK Hynix for $9 billion

Daily Crunch: Pakistan un-bans TikTok

Who regulates social media?

Juniper Networks acquires Boston-area AI SD-WAN startup 128 Technology for $450M

The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation

Facebook introduces a new Messenger API with support for Instagram

Pakistan lifts ban on TikTok

Instagram’s handling of kids’ data is now being probed in the EU

Daily Crunch: Twitter walks back New York Post decision

Twitter is now allowing users to share that controversial New York Post story

Lawmatics raises $2.5M to help lawyers market themselves

Private equity firms can offer enterprise startups a viable exit option

We need universal digital ad transparency now

Twitter changes its hacked materials policy in wake of New York Post controversy

YouTube bans videos promoting conspiracy theories like QAnon that target individuals

Temporal raises $18.75M for its microservices orchestration platform

Pew: Most prolific Twitter users tend to be Democrats, but majority of users still rarely tweet

Snapchat launches its TikTok rival, Sounds on Snapchat

Application security platform NeuraLegion raises $4.7 million seed led by DNX Ventures

France and the Netherlands signal support for EU body to clip the wings of big tech

Armory nabs $40M Series C as commercial biz on top of open source Spinnaker project takes off

If data is labor, can collective bargaining limit big tech?

Facebook, in a reversal, will now ban Holocaust denial content under its hate-speech policy

Facebook EU-US data transfer complaint: Schrems gets a judicial review of the Irish DPC’s procedure

Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos

8 Common SwiftUI Mistakes - and how to fix them

High-profile startup execs back Indian influencers platform CreatorOS

Headroom, which uses AI to supercharge videoconferencing, raises $5M

IBM plans to spin off infrastructure services as a separate $19B business

Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production

Facebook: Trump can’t recruit ‘army’ of poll watchers under new voter intimidation rules

Decrypted: The major ransomware attack you probably didn’t hear about