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Into Africa: tech leaders weigh in on Jack Dorseys planned move to the continent

Tado the German smart home energy startup plans to go public via a SPAC at a 450M valuation

EU warns Russia over Ghostwriter hacking ahead of German elections

COVID19 market turmoil tests NYSEs shutdown circuitbreakers

Ford 3M GE and the UAW to build respirators ventilators and faceshields for coronavirus fight

Are embedded devices the next ransomware target

Court says Vizios secret smart TV tracking classaction settlement can move forward

Microsoft has warned 10000 victims of statesponsored hacking

Ford GM Tesla given the go ahead to produce ventilators Trump says

Facebook Google and Twitter told to do more to fight fake news ahead of European elections

Moderna sues Pfizer BioNTech over alleged mRNA patent infringement

Twitter returns after an hourlong outage

Yahoo has built a new calendar app called Day and its recruited the cofounder of Sunrise to design it

Twitter is working on a podcasts tab

Facebooks ad team shoots itself in the foot by pulling Elizabeth Warren campaign ads

Parsing Samsungs data breach notice

Athleisure icon Ty Haney raises 98M in fresh funding for her blockchain rewards startup

Olympus US hack tied to sanctioned Russian ransomware group

Twitter says no evidence passwords were stolen during hack but no word on DMs

Trump administration bans federal agencies from buying Huawei ZTE tech

Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses but refuses to give details

iProov snaps up 70M for its facial verification technology already in use by Homeland Security the NHS and others

Uber drivers and riders will be required to wear face coverings

Facebook is working with HackerOne on a bug bounty program for its Libra cryptocurrency

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises 6M expands in Africa

Esper raises 30M Series B for its IoT DevOps platform

Otta a jobs platform with a database approach raises 20M Series A from Tiger

Amazon says government demands for user data spiked by 800 in 2020

Africa Roundup: Zimbabwes net blackout Partechs 143M fund Andelas 100M raise Flutterwaves pivot

Tech Moves: Azure GM joins Madrona Microsoft promotes chief scientist Esper adds exec more

TikTok parent ByteDance just bought a hospital group in China

Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon Tomo adds CMO Gopuff taps more Seattle talent

DoorDash customers say their accounts have been hacked

UK eyeing switch to AppleGoogle API for coronavirus contacts tracing report

Shipping giant Pitney Bowes hit by ransomware

Nike debuts its most ambitious SNKRS stash drop for the Championship Tour featuring Kendrick Lamar and SZA

Apple quietly pulls references to its CSAM detection tech after privacy fears

A new 124 million for Brazils Movile proves that investors still see promise in Latin American tech

Gamingfocused investment firm Bitkraft closes in on at least 140 million for its second fund

Rigetti raises 79M Series C for its quantum computing platform

Popular app Snaptube caught serving invisible ads and charging users for premium purchases they havent made

Its not just you Twitter is down

Zipline begins US medical delivery with UAV program honed in Africa

Twitter launches Tor service allowing users in Russia to bypass internet blocks

Twitter warned of phone country code leak two years ago but did nothing security researcher says

Hackers hijack thousands of Chromecasts to warn of latest security bug

Nigerias Gloong drops consumer ecommerce pivots to eprocurement

An app tasked with reporting the results of the Iowa caucus has crashed

Revolut confirms cyberattack exposed personal data of tens of thousands of users

Layoffs at Lime and Getaround herald rise of profithungry unicorns