Thursday, October 1, 2020
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google to pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil — Google will pay publishers more than $1 billion over the next three years to create and curate high-quality journalism for a new set …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
French startup Sendinblue, which helps SMBs run all their marketing tasks, from email to Facebook ads, raises $160M Series B — As more companies and brands put the internet at the core of how they run their businesses these days, it's giving a strong push to the growth of startups that are building tools to help them.
Traf:
A designer shares how he generated $100K+ selling custom app icon sets via a simple website when iPhone home screen customization exploded after iOS 14 release — This title is a little misleading. Sure, it took me 6 days to amass 3,626 sales for a total of $101,528, but like any overnight success, it was years in the making.
Liam Tung / ZDNet:
Microsoft is investigating a web Outlook and Exchange Online outage that has affected users globally — Microsoft is investigating a web Outlook and Exchange Online outage that hit as Europeans began work on Thursday. — Outlook online users around the world are reporting problems accessing …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
A look at the potential vulnerabilities in electronic poll books, which pollworkers use to verify voter eligibility, and have caused delays in Georgia elections — Voting machines aren't the only digital devices to worry about on November 3. — A federal judge in Georgia …