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After a 16-month probe, House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple enjoy “monopoly power” and suggest antitrust changes that could break them up — - After a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google …
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In response to House's report on Big Tech, Amazon says that “fringe notions on antitrust would destroy small businesses and hurt consumers” — Misguided interventions in the free market would kill off independent retailers and punish consumers by forcing small businesses …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says it “vehemently disagrees” with the conclusions reached in US House report and doesn't have dominant marketshare in any categories of its businesses — Earlier today, the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee completed its ongoing antitrust investigation …
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Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms, removing all Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts that represent QAnon — Facebook said Tuesday that it is banning all QAnon accounts from its platforms, a significant escalation over its previous action and one of the broadest rules …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack says it will add Snapchat-like stories and push-to-talk audio calls before end of 2020 — Get ready to Slack your daily stories — Slack is getting ready to introduce Instagram-like stories and push-to-talk audio into its communications software before the end of 2020.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Slack unveils new features to allow messaging between companies, including Connect DMs, Verified Organizations, more, coming later this year or early next year — Slack is holding its Frontiers conference this week — virtually like everyone else in 2020 — and it's introducing some new features … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft says the US Labor Department is probing whether Microsoft's diversity efforts constitute racial discrimination by a government contractor — The Labor Department has been probing whether Microsoft's goal of increasing Black representation in its ranks constitutes racial discrimination, the software maker disclosed Tuesday.
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Leaked memo from February reveals Amazon's plans to invest in software to analyze data on unions, alongside non-union “threats” like crime and weather — A representative of a union for Amazon employees protesting at Amazon's Swansea fulfillment center on November 23, 2018, in Swansea, W
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| BBC: |
Facebook removed a post by Trump saying COVID-19 is “less lethal” than flu, only the second time it has done so, as Twitter hides the tweet and adds a warning — Facebook has deleted a post in which President Trump had claimed Covid-19 was “less lethal” than the flu.
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| Brandon Hill / HotHardware.com News: |
SK Hynix says it is launching the world's first DDR5 DRAM chips, which support data transfer rate of 4,800-5,600 Mbps while operating at 1.1V vs. 1.2V for DDR4 — Back in July, JEDEC finalized the specifications for DDR5 memory, and laid out a number of key performance advantages …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple brings Health Records on the iPhone to the UK and Canada, starting with Oxford University Hospitals in UK and Women's College Hospital in Canada — Apple has today announced that access to Health Records on the iPhone is now available in the UK and Canada, providing a fuller, more secure picture of patient health.| Bloomberg: |
As Google and Oracle face off in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, both have funded outside groups that signed amicus briefs, often without disclosure — - Both companies funded some who signed friend-of-court briefs — Supreme Court rules don't require general funding disclosures
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google Ads introduces an Insights page, automated Performance Max campaigns, and will bring Video Action out of beta to all advertisers in the coming weeks — The new products and features are further indication of Google's machine learning goals. — Google introduced more automation features …
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
MetaMask, an Ethereum browser extension and wallet app that also functions as an access point for decentralized apps, adds token swaps, coming first to Firefox — MetaMask announced a new feature Tuesday: token swaps directly within the popular Ethereum browser extension and mobile application.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces it will hold an event on October 13 at 10am PDT, where it's expected to unveil new 5G iPhones; invites are titled “Hi, Speed.” — Apple today has officially announced its highly-anticipated iPhone 12 event for October 13 at 10 am PT. Much like WWDC 2020 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Illusive Networks, which aims to stop cyberattacks using deceptions on endpoints like IoT devices, raises $24M Series B1, bringing its total raised to $54M+ — Illusive Networks, a cybersecurity startup specializing in defense and deception, today announced $24 million in venture funding.
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| Eric Feng: |
Stories as a media format won over all social media platforms as they are a perfect compromise of ease of creation and the richness of narrative — On September 23rd, Pinterest officially launched a new feature called Story Pins to make it easier for Pinterest creators to “share their talent, passions and creativity”.
Tweets: @efeng
| Alison DeNisco Rayome / CNET: |
Facebook says it is launching an emotional health resource center, with expert guides and information, available globally with location-specific resources — Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger will also get new tools to help support users' emotional health during the coronavirus pandemic.| Ingrid Lunden / Techcrunch: |
Envisics, which builds in-car holographic displays, raises $50M Series B from Hyundai Mobis, GM, and others, at a $250M+ valuation — The jury is still out on what might become the most viable business models for augmented reality technology, but in the meantime a startup out of the UK … | Manish Singh / Techcrunch: |
India offers 16 phone makers, including Samsung, Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron, incentives of 4% to 6% over five years on sales of some products made in India — Samsung and three major contract manufacturing partners of Apple are among 16 firms to win $6.65 billion incentives under India's federal plan …
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| Karen Chiu / South China Morning Post: |
Google Chrome is the most popular browser in China across both desktops and smartphones, with a 36%-39% market share in 2020 according to Baidu Analytics — Internet users in China cannot use the Google search engine without a VPN, yet Chrome has the highest market share among web browsers China …
Tweets: @mdhaldane
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
As Twitter reinstates accounts of two Ugandan activists, environmental groups worry that Twitter's moderation system is being exploited to silence activists — He's not alone — A Ugandan environmental activist was suspended from Twitter in the midst of a high-profile campaign …
Tweets: @anakpawispl, @tonyocruz, and @ecowarriorss
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