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Sources: unusually large purchases of call options by SoftBank over the past month partly fueled the latest tech stock rally — Japanese conglomerate has been snapping up options in huge amounts over past month — SoftBank is the “Nasdaq whale” that has bought billions of dollars' worth …
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| Jeremy B. Merrill / ProPublica: |
Facebook's ban on political ads in the week prior to the election applies to election officials, who use Facebook to inform voters about the voting process — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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| Slate: |
Facebook's pre-election ban on political ads will likely suppress important speech and inhibits campaigns' ability to respond to late-breaking news on Facebook — On Thursday, Facebook announced a set of U.S. election season changes to political advertising and content moderation.
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
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| Amazon Web Services: |
Amazon responds to JEDI decision, calling it a “politically corrupted contract award” and attacks Trump's role in steering the award away from AWS — Earlier today, the DoD announced it had concluded its corrective action and affirmed its prior JEDI contract award to Microsoft.
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| Aaron Gregg / Washington Post: |
Pentagon reaffirms its controversial decision to give JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft; Amazon is likely to continue its legal challenge — The Pentagon reaffirmed its controversial decision to give its largest-ever cloud computing contract to Microsoft instead of to market-leader Amazon …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Under shareholder pressure, Apple quietly publishes its human rights policy based on UN guiding principles, but will follow national law if the two conflict — iPhone maker approves new policy after shareholder pressure — Apple has for the first time published a human rights policy …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Facebook is testing displaying Instagram Stories directly in the main Facebook app; the test requires users opt in and link their accounts together — Only your Instagram followers can see your stories in Facebook — Some Facebook users have recently noticed that they can now watch …
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| Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic: |
In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment — Trying to do so is all but useless. — In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
As Oracle tries to buy TikTok, a look at how the company started embracing and building ties with Donald Trump and his administration after the 2016 election — The tech giant stands out in Silicon Valley for its close ties to the administration, which must bless any deal for the social media app.| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon deleted 20,000 reviews by 7 of its top 10 UK contributors after an FT analysis found they appeared to profit from posting thousands of five-star ratings — FT investigation finds suspicious behaviour by 9 of top 10 UK contributors on feedback — Amazon has deleted approximately …
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| Victoria Graham / Bloomberg Law: |
DOJ updated merger guidelines for the first time in over a decade, modernizing the way it will order fixes, like asset selloffs, to resolve antitrust concerns — The Justice Department is updating its merger guidelines for the first time in more than a decade, modernizing …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
ThruWave, which uses millimeter wave-based computer vision tech to create 3D images of items inside packages going through retail warehouses, raises $6.4M seed — Seattle startup ThruWave just raised a $6.4 million round for its futuristic technology that uses millimeter waves to see through packaging.Sponsor Posts
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