{"id":14446,"date":"2019-03-14T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/daily-crunch-telegram-soars-after-facebook-outage.html"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:39:24","slug":"daily-crunch-telegram-soars-after-facebook-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/daily-crunch-telegram-soars-after-facebook-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Daily Crunch: Telegram soars after Facebook outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch\u2019s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you\u2019d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps\u2019 outage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a message sent to his Telegram <\/a> channel, founder Pavel Durov wrote, \u201cI see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours.\u201d Durov doesn\u2019t offer an explicit explanation for Telegram\u2019s sudden spike in signups, but he does take a thinly veiled swipe at social networking giant Facebook.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably not a coincidence that Facebook <\/a> and its related family of apps went down for most of Wednesday.<\/p>\n

2. Google removed 2.3B bad ads, banned ads on 1.5M apps + 28M pages, plans new Policy Manager this year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Using both manual reviews and machine learning, Google said that in 2018 it removed 2.3 billion \u201cbad ads\u201d that violated its policies \u2014 which at their most general forbid ads that mislead or exploit vulnerable people.<\/p>\n

3. Uber reportedly raising $1B in deal that values self-driving car unit at up to $10B<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Uber is in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. The deal would value the business at between $5 billion and $10 billion, according to a report<\/a> from The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

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4. Opportunity\u2019s last Mars panorama is a showstopper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Opportunity Mars Rover may be officially offline for good, but its legacy of science and imagery is ongoing \u2014 and NASA just shared the last (nearly) complete panorama the robot sent back before it was blanketed in dust.<\/p>\n

5. AI photo startup Polarr raises an $11.5 million Series A<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the moment, Polarr is probably best known for its photography app for iOS and Android, which utilizes machine learning and AI to improve image editing. The company says it has around four million monthly active users.<\/p>\n

6. WeWork Labs is launching a food tech accelerator<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

WeWork is committing $1 million to back the first batch of companies.<\/p>\n

7. Facebook won\u2019t store data in countries with human rights violations \u2014 except Singapore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When Mark Zuckerberg said in a lengthy blog post that Facebook would not build data centers in countries with poor human rights, he chose to ignore Singapore \u2014 known for a lack of privacy and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

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