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China's market regulator announces an antitrust investigation into Alibaba for alleged monopolistic practices, the first investigation of its kind in China — Probe into China's biggest tech group is one of the first of its kind for country's internet sector
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The Alibaba antitrust probe was likely triggered by online merchants being forced to pick only one platform as their distribution channel, a widespread practice — Chinese regulators will look into the ‘picking one from two’ practice as part of their probe into Alibaba Group Holding …
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Cosmetic surgery chain The Hospital Group confirms a ransomware attack after hacker group REvil claims it has obtained more than 900GB of patient photographs — Hackers have stolen the data of a large cosmetic surgery chain and are threatening to publish patients' before and after photos, among other details.| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
In unsealed court docs, Facebook managers appeared to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities in 2016 and wondered if they were misleading advertisers — Facebook is currently waging a PR campaign purporting to show that Apple is seriously injuring American small businesses through its iOS privacy features.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon's $250 Echo Frames review: good as a Bluetooth headset, little noise bleed, good mic quality, but middling battery life, falls short as an Alexa device — Great in concept, but there's a limit to what Alexa can do on a phone — I did not expect to like the Amazon Echo Frames as much as I do.| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
An interview with Keith Rabois, who has championed Miami as a tech destination after moving there, and whose investment portfolio has seen major exits this year — Keith Rabois just moved to South Florida. Now he wants Silicon Valley to join him. — 15 hr ago — Keith Rabois is ubiquitous these days.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Seven startups, including Thrasio and Heyday, hoping to become conglomerates like P&G, have raised a combined $950M to acquire small Amazon Marketplace sellers — Start-ups including Thrasio, SellerX and Heroes are rolling up small brands, hoping to become the new P&G or Unilever
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| Lorraine Longhi / The Copper Courier: |
Some GoDaddy employees are upset after the company sent a phishing email scam to test its employees, with the email promising a $650 one-time holiday bonus — GoDaddy surpassed 20 million customers this year and laid off or reassigned hundreds of employees during the coronavirus pandemic in Arizona, Iowa, and Texas.
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| Kate Duffy / Business Insider: |
April Christina Curley, a Google recruiter focused on Black colleges, says she was fired in September and alleges a hostile work environment for Black people — - A Google employee, who said she was fired by the tech giant in September, claimed Monday that her manager told her that her way of speaking …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Square has held talks to acquire music streaming service Tidal, which Jay-Z acquired for $56M in early 2015 — - Streaming music platform has struggled to keep up with Spotify — Dorsey has met with Jay-Z multiple times during the pandemic — Square Inc., the digital-payment …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Brightpearl, which offers operations management software for logistics and more, raises $33M Series C led by Sage — Brightpearl, which allows retailers to streamline their operations thus boosting sales, has raised $33 million in funding to scale its business.
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| KC Ifeanyi / Fast Company: |
Profile of Brandlive, a live video platform that became the crown jewel of Joe Biden's digital strategy, powering 230 campaigns and securing $30M in donations — As the COVID-19 pandemic forced live event organizers to rethink their strategies this year, there was particular attention …
Tweets: @harrymccracken and @emmakinery
| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Filing: ByteDance says TikTok UK had sales of $20M in 2019, with a loss of $119.5M, driven by advertising and marketing expenses of $109M — - Chinese owner ByteDance has not disclosed global figures — Video-sharing app has been rapidly expanding in U.K.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Nuro says it has been granted a permit to test and charge for its commercial autonomous delivery service by California's DMV, the first company to do so — Hours after announcing that it acquired self-driving truck startup Ike, Nuro revealed it's the first company to receive permission …
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Nuro, The Hill, California DMV, Bloomberg, Internet of Things News, Digital Trends, Neowin, Engadget, and Slashdot. Tweets: @avgregr
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
| John Harney / Bloomberg: |
DHS has issued an advisory to US businesses, warning of data security risks with using communication equipment and services from China-linked companies — - Homeland Security warns of trade secret, competition risks — Advisory comes after hack that Trump advisers blame on Russia| Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy: |
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