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Friday, 10 April, 2020

Coronavirus
Apple and Google join forces to develop contact-tracing apps
Rare collaboration to tackle virus crisis but privacy issues raise concerns
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Friday, 10 April, 2020

Person in the News
Jack Dorsey: the Twitter founder shows tech bros can grow up
After fighting off an investor ousting, he has turned to philanthropy at scale
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Friday, 10 April, 2020

FT CollectionsGeopolitics
Life beyond lockdown
A look at the wider political and economic landscape
Friday, 10 April, 2020

AnalysisOYO Rooms
India’s youngest self-made billionaire faces challenge of a lifetime
Even before coronavirus, analysts were asking if Ritesh Agarwal’s Oyo hotel chain was overvalued
Friday, 10 April, 2020

House & Home
Property sales go virtual to work around Covid-19
Viewings are impossible under lockdown but 3D tours, drones and phones are helping
Friday, 10 April, 2020

Chinese politics & policy
UN’s partnership with Tencent at odds with its push for global unity
The United Nations’ decision to host global discussions via Chinese tech giant’s video service has raised concerns over privacy
Friday, 10 April, 2020

Inside BusinessRichard Waters
Crisis reminds Silicon Valley that cash is king
Airbnb takes a tough deal in the search for liquidity
Friday, 10 April, 2020

Amazon.com
Amazon developing in-house Covid-19 testing lab
Group has come under scrutiny for treatment of workers over its handling of pandemic
Thursday, 9 April, 2020

Masayoshi Son
SoftBank founder pledged majority of shares to banks during sell-off
Masayoshi Son increased collateral against personal loans to 60% of his shareholding in technology group
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Thursday, 9 April, 2020

#techFT
Tech’s coronavirus copycats
Zoom bombs, Internet Food Court mystery, videoconferencing tips
Thursday, 9 April, 2020

ReviewNon-Fiction
No Filter by Sarah Frier — a compelling tale of app jealousy
How Instagram’s Kevin Systrom clashed with Mark Zuckerberg, starting a branding rat-race
Thursday, 9 April, 2020

LexZoom Video Communications Inc
Zoom: video nasty Premium
The company lacks a sufficiently big moat to keep hold of users who worry about security
Thursday, 9 April, 2020

Coronavirus
FT’s Beijing correspondent answers your questions on China’s coronavirus response
What can we learn from the country’s recovery? You asked, we responded. Here are the highlights
Thursday, 9 April, 2020

Meituan Dianping
Meituan starts selling phones alongside food delivery orders
China’s leading food delivery app goes head-to-head with Alibaba and JD.com
Thursday, 9 April, 2020

Leading ‘UK’ start-ups want a handout too
Dear Rishi, please help my LuxCo with the bills.
Thursday, 9 April, 2020

Zoom Video Communications Inc
US Senate tells members not to use Zoom
Organisation is latest to warn over data security worries on videoconferencing platform
Wednesday, 8 April, 2020

Markets InsightHenny Sender
Painful lessons from the Luckin Coffee scandal
Chinese chain said that hundreds of millions of dollars of sales had been fabricated
Wednesday, 8 April, 2020

Cyber warfare
State-backed hackers using virus to increase spying, UK and US warn
Agencies report rise in cyber attacks on governments and health organisations
Wednesday, 8 April, 2020

Travis Kalanick
The mystery of Travis Kalanick’s ‘Internet Food Court’
Hollywood kitchen facility seemed perfect for the Covid-19 crisis — but then vanished from the internet
Wednesday, 8 April, 2020

#techFT
Debating the data on Covid-19
Coronavirus moonshots, Twitter’s @Jack donates $1bn, Samsung Galaxy Chromebook
Wednesday, 8 April, 2020

We Company
WeWork sues SoftBank for backing out of $3bn deal
Move escalates hostilities between investors who helped drive sky-high valuation of office group before its crash last year
Wednesday, 8 April, 2020

Tech Scroll Asia
Asia’s tech start-ups hit by liquidity crunch
Tech Scroll Asia, your guide to the billions made and lost in Asia tech
Tuesday, 7 April, 2020

#techFT
Tech’s wild Covid-19 earnings season
Samsung profits dip, WeWork sues SoftBank, DreamLab and Folding@home tackle virus
Tuesday, 7 April, 2020

Semiconductors
Chinese move to take control of Imagination Technologies stalls
UK government steps in over fate of UK chipmaker ahead of emergency board meeting
Tuesday, 7 April, 2020

Lex
Google/Facebook: fact check Premium
The crisis is prompting US tech giants to do some of the things they once claimed were impossible