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FTC, in coalition with 46 state AGs, plus Guam and DC, sues Facebook, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions were used to stifle competition — Agency challenges Facebook's multi-year course of unlawful conduct — The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook …
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| NY State Attorney General: |
New York AG Letitia James leads a coalition of 48 AGs in suing Facebook, alleging the company uses a “buy or bury” approach toward its competitors — AG James Leads Bipartisan Coalition of 48 Attorneys General Charging Anticompetitive Conduct — Facebook Thwarted Competition, Reduced Consumer Privacy for Profits| Jennifer Newstead / About Facebook: |
Facebook responds to the FTC and state AGs, saying the lawsuits they've brought forth are “revisionist history” and their antitrust case is unprecedented — Billions of people use Facebook's products every day. To earn their time and attention, we compete fiercely against many other services across the world.
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Wired, Reuters, Protocol, Federal Trade Commission, BIG by Matt Stoller, ComputerWeekly.com, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @jmorse_, @chillmage, @rmac18, @migueldeicaza, @alexeheath, and @rmac18
| The Verge: |
FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Facebook seeks to unwind Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions, force Facebook to seek approval for future acquisitions, and more — New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit on Wednesday — On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced …
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TechCrunch, The Information, The Economic Times, Politico, Japan Today, Techdirt, TechRadar, ExtremeTech, The Hill, and The Guardian
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Internal memo: Sundar Pichai apologizes over the handling of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru's departure and says he will investigate — Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized Wednesday for the company's handling of the departure of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru and said he would investigate …
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The Gradient, SiliconANGLE, South China Morning Post, Wired, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Associated Press, and The Verge
Tweets: @timnitgebru, @inafried, @rafaelshimunov, @mer__edith, @yoda, @timnitgebru, @kevinroose, @kimcrayton1, @azeem, @axios, @wired, @ohthatflo, and @joshsternberg. Thanks:@inafried
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft says its cloud gaming service, as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, will come to iOS via web browser in spring of 2021 — Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in 2021. In a new blog post today, the company says that cloud gaming as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate …
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Xbox Wire, GeekWire, TrueAchievements, Android Police, Kotaku Australia, GamingBolt, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @onmsft and @aarongreenberg
| YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube says it will remove any content published from today that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the 2020 US Presidential election outcome — Over the past weeks and months, we've seen people coming to YouTube to learn more about where and how to vote or learning more about a candidate or an issue.
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Reuters and CNBC
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| Kyle Hyatt / Roadshow: |
Report: Hyundai Motor Group has agreed to purchase Boston Dynamics, maker of the Spot quadruped robot, from SoftBank for around $921M — The acquisition has been expected since early November. … Hey, remember those deeply unsettling robot dogs that have been creeping out the internet for years and recently went into production?| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
WhatsApp says that Apple's new privacy labels are anti-competitive; Apple responds by confirming its own apps will include the “nutrition labels” — Facebook's global messaging service WhatsApp is protesting Apple's requirement that app owners submit information about the user data …
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WhatsApp, CNBC, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Michael Tsai, The Verge, Gizmodo, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iMore
Tweets: @sarafischer, @stevekovach, @martinsfp, @joannastern, and @tonyromm
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Airbnb raises $3.5B in its IPO at $68 per share, up from a previous $56-$60 range, giving it a fully diluted valuation of $47.3B — Airbnb on Wednesday raised $3.5 billion in its IPO at a fully diluted valuation of around $47.3 billion, and will begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol ABNB.
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNET, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, CNBC, New York Times, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @eliotwb
| D. M. Moore / Polygon: |
AT&T has agreed to sell Japanese anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony's Funimation Global Group for $1.18B — The move consolidates the anime industry in a major way — On Wednesday, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. announced that AT&T and WarnerMedia agreed to sell Crunchyroll to Funimation.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Verge, Bloomberg, Crunchyroll, Engadget, SlashGear, GameSpot, IGN, Android Central, Comic Book, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Reuters
Tweets: @crunchyroll and @theryanford
| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple and Google to ban mobile apps that use location trackers from data broker X-Mode, after it was revealed X-Mode provided data to US government contractors — After the data broker came under scrutiny for national-security work, tech giants tell app developers to remove trackers or lose access to their operating systems
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VICE, Agence France-Presse, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Business Insider, and Apple Terminal
Tweets: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @samschech
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Report: four former Apple employees say the company was aware of Chinese labor law violations by its suppliers but took no action to avoid product delays — Three former members of the Apple Supplier Responsibility team say Apple was complicit in labor law violations in China.
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The Information. More:
The Verge, iMore, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Tweets: @zerohedge and @waynema
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
DoorDash closes at $189.51, up 85% from its $102 pricing, after popping to $182 as the shares began trading, giving a valuation of $60.2B — - Shares of DoorDash, a leading food delivery app, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. — The stock began trading at $182 per share and closed at $189.51.| Sasha Lekach / Mashable: |
Uber says it is rolling out Uber Connect, its same-day, no-contact local package delivery service introduced in April, to 2,400+ new cities and towns in the US — Back in April, Uber was scrambling to provide something for its users who were no longer ordering ride-shares because, well, many of us were stuck at home.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: consumers will have downloaded 130B apps globally in 2020, up 10% YoY, as spending rose 25% YoY to $112B; 65¢ of every $1 was spent on iOS — Consumers will have downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020 across iOS and Google Play, up 10% year-over-year, according to mobile data …
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App Annie, PYMNTS.com, and AppleInsider
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Squire, which develops software for barbershops, raises $59M Series C led by Iconiq Capital at a $250M valuation, just months after raising a $34M Series B — Squire, a startup that sells software to barbershops, has raised $59 million in a round led by Iconiq Capital.| Bloomberg: |
AI services provider C3.ai closes up 120.2% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at ~$8.9B, after raising $651M in its IPO — C3.ai Inc., the software maker founded by former Oracle Corp. executive Tom Siebel, rose as much as 174% in its trading debut after raising $651 million …
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Fortune, SiliconANGLE, and CNBC
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Twitch unveils new guidelines to crack down on hateful conduct and sexual harassment, which take effect in January, following a yearlong review — The livestreaming site announced new guidelines after contending with claims that its streamers were too easily abused.
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Twitch Blog, Engadget, Fast Company, Game Rant, dexerto.com, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, TechCrunch, GamesIndustry.biz, and Variety
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
France unveils sweeping know-your-customer rules for cryptocurrency firms operating in and servicing the country and plans more rules on crypto transactions — The French Ministry of Finance unveiled sweeping know-your-customer requirements on all cryptocurrency companies operating … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will compel Chrome extensions to display privacy practices and limit data that developers can collect from January 18, 2021, ahead of Chrome 88 — At Chrome Dev Summit 2020 today, Google announced it will change how extensions access data and how extension permissions work in 2021.
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The Keyword, Chromium Blog, Chromium Blog, 9to5Google, GitHub, Engadget, Chromium Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Chrome Unboxed, Android Headlines, Thurrott, Neowin, Engadget, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @campuscodi and @campuscodi
| Mark Haranas / CRN: |
Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks raises $36.6M Series C led by AWS with participation from GV, Accel, and others, bringing total raised to $60M — Growing at a triple-digit clip, Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks is attracting top- notch investors including AWS, Ericsson and Google Ventures.Sponsor Posts
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