Strategic Partnerships

• Tesla delivered more than 90,000 cars last quarter -Tesla sales and production were hurt by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns. But not as much as some other automakers.
  
  
• Hundreds of brands are pulling ads from Facebook. Its largest advertisers aren't among them. -Hundreds of companies have promised to halt advertising on Facebook and its sibling platform Instagram as part of month-long boycott officially set to begin on Wednesday, according to the civil rights groups behind the protest.
  
  
• California sues Cisco for alleged discrimination against employee because of caste -California authorities are suing Cisco and two of its employees for allegedly discriminating against an Indian engineer because he was from a lower caste than them.
  
  
• Advertisers have Facebook's attention. Now here's what they want -Facebook is about to look a little different, whether users notice or not.
  
  
• Here's how big Facebook's ad business really is -Each day, more household names join the list of brands suspending advertising on Facebook to protest what they say are the social network's failures to stop the spread of hate. On Monday alone, Adidas, HP, and Ford added their names to a list that already had Unilever, The North Face, Coca Cola, Honda and many others.
  
  
• An internal Amazon memo shows how closely it's tracking coronavirus data at warehouses -For months, Amazon has refused to reveal data on the number of coronavirus cases inside its warehouses by claiming the data itself "isn't particularly useful," frustrating workers and critics hoping for a clearer picture of infections within what have become critical hubs for home supplies.
  
  
• Facebook bans hundreds of accounts related to the Boogaloo extremist movement -Facebook on Tuesday banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages that it said were linked to the Boogaloo movement, a loosely organized extremist collective whose members have occasionally shown up armed to racial justice and anti-quarantine protests around the country.
  
  
• Gaming world faces one of its biggest #MeToo moments yet -The popular gaming content creation group OfflineTV has removed Federico Michael Gaytan, better known as Fedmyster, in response to allegations of sexual harassment and unwanted touching from two of his housemates.
  
  
• Beijing says it's 'strongly concerned' by India's decision to ban Chinese apps -Beijing is pushing back on a decision by India to ban dozens of Chinese mobile apps as tensions between the world's most populous countries continue to rise.
  
  
• Uber, hungry for a deal, now reportedly in talks to acquire Postmates -Just a few weeks after it lost out on a high-profile deal to acquire food delivery company Grubhub, Uber hasn't given up on bolstering its own meal delivery service with an acquisition.
  
  
• White supremacists openly organize racist violence on Telegram, report finds -On June 5, a car full of White supremacists drove through the streets of Knoxville, Tennessee, harassing and abusing people attending a Black Lives Matter protest. One of those in the car shouted to a group of protesters: "You wanna die? Come on in. 9mm with your name on it."
  
  
• TikTok ban undercuts ByteDance in one of the world's biggest digital markets -TikTok's big bet on India just got hamstrung by rising geopolitical tensions.
  
  
• Customers regain access to cash as UK eases Wirecard restrictions -Britain's financial watchdog has lifted restrictions on Wirecard's UK operations, restoring services to hundreds of thousands of people and businesses who were locked out of accounts linked to the collapsed digital payments company.
  
  
• India bans TikTok as tensions with China escalate -India is banning TikTok and several other well-known Chinese apps, saying they pose a "threat to sovereignty and integrity," in the latest indication of escalating tensions between the two countries.
  
  
• YouTube removes Richard Spencer and David Duke a year after saying it would ban supremacists -In June 2019, YouTube announced it would ban supremacist content. Even so, it did nothing to accounts belonging to some of the most prominent among that group, including white supremacist Richard Spencer and former KKK leader David Duke.
  
  
• Lululemon to buy at-home fitness startup Mirror for $500 million -As the appeal of at-home workouts has become more ubiquitous during the pandemic, Lululemon, the athletic apparel company, is going all in on the craze.
  
  
• Twitch suspends Trump campaign account -Twitch, the video streaming service popular with online gamers, has suspended an account belonging to the Trump campaign, becoming the latest tech platform to take action against President Donald Trump.
  
  
• The Facebook ad boycott is starting to rattle investors -After several days of largely shrugging off news about a growing Facebook advertiser boycott, investors now appear to be taking notice.
  
  
• Amazon giving $500 million in one-time bonuses to front-line workers as a 'thank you' -Amazon is giving out more than $500 million as a "Thank You bonus" to front-line workers who were with the company throughout the month of June, a move that comes after the e-commerce giant eliminated a $2 hourly wage bump and double overtime pay for frontline workers at the end of May.
  
  
• Reddit bans pro-Trump forum The_Donald and other communities that promote hate -Reddit, one of the most controversial social sites, is now trying to tackle hateful content on its platform amid broader calls for racial justice.