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Coronavirus pushed Twitter to a record 24% growth in daily users last quarter, but the social media giant swung to a lossThe company's first-quarter revenue and earnings beat the consensus forecast of Wall Street analysts polled by Bloomberg.SoftBank is embroiled in a legal dispute with directors at WeWork after backing out of a $3 billion tender offer agreed when it bailed out the office-sharing firm following a flopped IPO attempt last year.
The UK has published blueprints for COVID-19 immunity passports, a controversial route out of lockdownMost of the submissions outline how ID documents could be used alongside facial recognition, QR codes, and test results, to verify an individual's health before allowing them to enter private premises.
Microsoft's big bet on a 'Netflix of gaming' is paying off and the service now has over 10 million usersThe service has been a major hit with critics and consumers and is regularly heralded as the best deal in gaming. California's health department website crashed a minute after Elon Musk linked to it in Twitter tirade about empty hospitalsThe CHHS data portal crashed just one minute after Musk tweeted a link to the website, California officials confirmed Business Insider.
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