Axios

Ben Horowitz of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz will not stand for re-election to Lyft's board of directors, the company disclosed Monday.

Why it matters: Horowitz joined the board in 2016 to replace a fellow Andreessen Horowitz partner who stepped back. The VC firm was one of the earliest investors in Lyft.

The company has not announced a nominee to replace Horowitz yet.

Google is in talks to acquire D2iQ, an enterprise cloud software company formerly known as Mesosphere, Axios has learned from a source close to the situation.

Pricing: Expectations are that D2iQ would be valued north of the $250 million that D2iQ has raised from venture capitalists, but less than the $775 million valuation it received via its Series D round in 2018.

A nonprofit organized by the founder of recruiting software firm Jibe has launched AllClear, a new website where people across the U.S. can find information about nearby coronavirus testing.

The big picture: AllClear is one of many tech industry responses to the pandemic. Others have designed services to deliver food to healthcare workers and apps to support small businesses.

As Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all report their first set of pandemic-era earnings this week, the industry will get a clearer fix on just how much pain the falling-out between the U.S. and China will inflict.

The big picture: For decades, tech's leaders have bet big on China as a manufacturing hub, supply chain provider and, increasingly, a lucrative market — but trade frictions, national-security tensions and now coronavirus blame games are imperiling that partnership.

Scammers are seizing on the fear and chaos swirling around the coronavirus pandemic to swindle people out of their money and identities.

Why it matters: Americans have reported almost $18 million in fraud losses due to such scams. The Federal Trade Commission received more than 23,000 coronavirus-related fraud or identity theft complaints since the start of the year, as of April 21.