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Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg confirm Quibi is shutting down: “Our failure was not for lack of trying; we've considered and exhausted every option” — We started with the idea to create the next generation of storytelling and because of you, we were able to create and deliver …
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A look at the well-funded Big Tech opponents, from lawyers to academics, that have helped guide potential government regulation like Google's antitrust suit — An unlikely collection of lawyers, activists, economists and academics are fueling the tech backlash, armed with funding from billionaire sponsors.
Tweets: @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, @daiwaka, @dmccabe, and @sarahmillerdc
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Filings for Q3 lobbying: Facebook spent $4.9M, up 1.5% QoQ, Google spent $1.9M, up 14.2%, Microsoft spent $1.9M, down 35.4%, Apple spent $1.6M, up 5.4% — - Google ramped up lobbying spend in the third quarter as regulators and lawmakers prepared to make public their findings of antitrust violations.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
DOJ's lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, focusing on search and providing a template for congressional action against Big Tech even if it fails — So it finally happened: the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging anticompetitive behavior under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
US intelligence director says Iran was behind threatening emails to FL Democratic voters demanding they vote for Trump; voter info was likely publicly available — Iranian intelligence was responsible for a recent campaign of emails sent to intimidate Florida voters, the FBI announced Wednesday night …
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PayPal will let users buy and sell cryptocurrency using its online wallets in the coming weeks and shop at merchants on its network starting in early 2021 — LONDON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says Jony Ive will collaborate with Airbnb as a design consultant, as part of a multi-year partnership with Ive's firm LoveFrom — Jony Ive retired from Apple about a year ago, following an almost 25 year tenure as head of Apple product design.
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| Nathan Grayson / Kotaku: |
Twitch sent DMCA notices to streamers on Tuesday, deleting content without allowing counterclaims; Twitch says “thousands” of music rights holders complained — It's finally happening: Twitch is taking action against copyrighted music—long a norm among streamers—in response to music industry pressure.
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Report: at least 2,000 US law enforcement agencies, including 49 of the 50 largest police departments, have the tools to access locked, encrypted phones — At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies have tools to get into encrypted smartphones, according to new research, and they are using them far more than previously known.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPad Air (2020) review: has an excellent screen, very fast processor, and is compatible with iPad Pro accessories, but it's expensive and has no 128GB option — Despite the higher cost, this iPad is the one to get — If you're looking to get an iPad right now and can afford it …
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Documents show Google Cloud will be used for its AI capabilities by the CBP in conjunction with Anduril Industries' surveillance tech on the US-Mexico border — After years of backlash over controversial government work, Google technology will be used to aid the Trump administration's efforts …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC's top lawyer defends its authority to interpret Section 230, saying 1996 legislation that included Section 230 amended a 1934 act that created the FCC — FCC lawyer claims authority to interpret any part of the Communications Act. — The Federal Communications Commission's top lawyer today explained …
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Snap executive says Snapchat's DAU in India grew 150% YoY in Q3, as Snap announces a slate of new India-specific original series and mini games — Snapchat has witnessed nearly 150% year-on-year growth in its daily active users from India in the third quarter of 2020| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Mine, which helps users control their data, raises $9.5M Series A led by Google's Gradient Ventures and has helped send 1.3M deletion requests — TechCrunch readers probably know that privacy regulations like Europe's GDPR and California's CCPA give them additional rights around …
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Facebook confirms it is testing a feature for users to connect with their neighbors, as rival Nextdoor considers options for going public — - Product for local connections is being tested in Canada now — Nextdoor is considering options, including a public offering
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
JPMorgan launches QuickAccept, a smartphone card reader and payments service for SMBs providing instant deposits of POS transactions for free, unlike Square — - JPMorgan's new QuickAccept service lets businesses take card payments within minutes, either through a mobile app or a contactless card reader …
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| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Federal district court approves the settlement between Kik and the SEC where Kik will pay a $5M fine to settle dispute over a 2017 token sale that raised ~$100M — A court has approved the settlement between Kitchener-Waterloo messenger app Kik and the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), which was proposed earlier this week.
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Facebook Dating launches in Europe, after Ireland's regulators forced a delay of its planned debut in February, claims it made 1.5B matches across 20 countries — - Facebook has expanded its “Facebook Dating” service to Europe. — Facebook claims that the platform has generated 1.5 … | Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk says Tesla is rolling out a Full Self-Driving “beta” in an “extremely slow and cautious” way; critics remain worried about Tesla's bet against lidar — Even iPhones have lidar now, but not the cars Tesla hopes to one day make autonomous.
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Tweets: @tim_stevens and @faizsays
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TikTok says it will do more to tackle coded language and symbols that promote hate speech, after reports found viral anti-Semitic videos — - TikTok has pledged to do more to tackle hateful content and behavior on its platform. — The commitment comes after reports that TikTok has a Nazi problem and a White supremacy problem.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Anyscale, which offers tools to securely and efficiently run apps built with the Ray open source distributed programming framework, raises $40M Series B — The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project … Sponsor Posts
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