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Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posted on Facebook about the company's plans to help small businesses that have been affected by COVID-19. In the post, she stated that the economic disruption poses a severe risk to small businesses. Facebook will help by awarding $100 million in cash grants and ad credits to small businesses. ...We've listened to small businesses
Google announced that Google Translate will be rolling out in the next few days for any combination of the following eight languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Thai. Sami Iqram, Product Manager, Google Translate, shared a story where he used Google Translate: Recently, I was at my friend's family gathering, where her grandmother told a story from
Lock Down Tech News and Todd's soapbox time on the Chinese and what they are up to and the culpability they have in trying to hide the CoronaVirus. I dig in and we also have a little fun on this show with a lot of interaction of the live audience. I have some theories and we dig in. I appreciate
France's L'Autorité de la concurrence, which is the country's competition agency, has fined Apple 1.1 billion euros ($1.24 billion) for anticompetitive behavior. The French authority said that this penalty was the largest ever handed down in one case. “Apple and its wholesalers agreed not to compete and prevent distributors from competing with each other, thereby sterilizing the wholesale marker for
Are you finding it difficult to buy household items from Amazon? You aren't the only one! It turns out that Amazon itself is having trouble stocking products that became extremely popular after COVID-19 started spreading. Not even Amazon is immune to the problems that occur when people start hoarding toilet paper. Amazon posted an explanation about the situation it is
Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet that is focused on life sciences and healthcare, is a sister company to Google. Verily is working in collaboration with the California Governor's office, federal, state, and local public health authorities to create an online COVID-19 screener survey. Californians will be able to take an online COVID-19 screener survey through Project Baseline beginning Monday, March
Tim Cook announced Apple's COVID-19 response to “the worldwide Apple family.” The purpose of the announcement was to provide an update about the ways Apple is doing its part “to protect the vulnerable, to study this virus, and to care for the sick.” Apple's committed donations to the global COVID-19 response – both to help treat those who are sick
Facebook and Twitter have both stated that they have removed accounts that were operating out of Ghana and Nigeria, and that had ties to Russia's IRA. This comes after CNN's investigation uncovered activity that “had striking similarities to the Russian troll campaign of 2016, which created hundreds of accounts designed to pass as American”. According to CNN, Facebook and Twitter
Oh, how does 72 hours make a difference in one's schedule? New plans I am Studio Bound for a minimum of two weeks and we will see how it goes from there CoronaVirus is really disrupting lives. More on that during the show and lots to share on what is happening. But I will have some time in the studio
Earlier this month, Twitter was “strongly encouraging work from home”. Today, Twitter updated that decision and has now informed all employees that they must work from home. This decision was made to protect the health and safety of their “Tweeps” after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. For contractors and hourly workers who are not able to perform
Google announced that it is establishing a COVID-19 fund that will enable all of their temporary staff and vendors, globally, to take paid sick leave if they have potential symptoms of COVID-19. It is also for temporary staff who can't come into work because they are quarantined. Most members of our extended workforce around the world (like the vendors who
As the OnePlus publicity machine winds up in advance of their biannual smartphone release, CEO Pete Lau has announced that the new range of phones will support 5G. “This is a milestone both for OnePlus and our users. We’re proud to be among the first smartphone manufacturers to have full 5G line up for our next launch,” said OnePlus Founder
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