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Uber COO Barney Harford and CMO Rebecca Messina are leaving the company — Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi is parting ways with two top lieutenants in a major leadership overhaul. Barney Harford, the chief operating officer, and Rebecca Messina …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Some European mobile traffic was rerouted through China Telecom due to a BGP leak at a Swiss colocation company which was accused of a similar mistake in 2018 — It was China Telecom, again. The same ISP accused last year of “hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries.”
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
How a rule, allowing US companies to apply for exemptions from the Huawei ban, was created when the Obama administration was contemplating sanctions against ZTE — Will hurt research and development and profits, they argue — U.S. technology companies have told the Commerce Department … | Financial Times: |
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Some videos intended for anti-racist, educational purposes were removed due to YouTube's new rules, highlighting the weaknesses of algorithmic content removal — YouTube's campaign against hateful and racist videos is claiming some unintended victims: researchers and advocates working to expose racist hatemongers.| The Block: |
Report: India's draft law proposes a 10-year jail term for “mining, generating, holding, buying, selling, or dealing in cryptocurrencies directly or indirectly” — If the 'Banning Cryptocurrencies and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill 2019' becomes law, mining …
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
A Google employee who helped organize walkouts has resigned, alleges she was the target of a campaign of retaliation designed to intimidate and dissuade others — Longtime employee who helped organize global protest alleges Google's response was designed to ‘have a chilling effect’ on growing workplace activism
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| Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg: |
FedEx says it will not renew its US air-shipping contract with Amazon, and says the online retailer accounted for 1.3% of FedEx 2018 revenue — FedEx Corp. said it wouldn't renew its U.S. air-delivery contract with Amazon.com Inc., as the courier focuses on “serving the broader e-commerce market.”
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| Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot: |
Peter Bright, also known as @DrPizza, who was an Ars Technica contributing writer, has been arrested on charges of soliciting sex with children online — Warning: This article contains graphic sexual language. — Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Tech giants don't fit neatly into existing models for antitrust action, since they regularly add new businesses to keep up with tech and provide free services — As federal regulators and Congress zero in on Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, they're about to encounter one of the most difficult rulemaking challenges in US history.| New York Times: |
Google bought 270 companies since 2001, Facebook bought 92 since 2007, some direct or nascent competitors; only one Google acquisition was challenged by the US — “Big tech” companies like Google and Facebook are, in reality, the products of hundreds of mergers.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Walmart's InHome service will deliver groceries directly to customers' refrigerators when they are not home, starting this fall in three US cities — ‘InHome’ deliveries kick off this fall — Starting this fall in the US, Walmart customers in select cities can choose …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Judge declines Google's motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging hiring bias, first filed by James Damore, who exited the lawsuit and is in arbitration with Google — Suit is set to enter discovery — Google will have to face a California lawsuit accusing the company of bias … Sponsor Posts
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