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| New York Times: |
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: @dmccabe, @sarahmillerdc, @daiwaka, and @puiwingtam
| 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 — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — So it finally happened: the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google …
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Reuters, Techdirt, Politico, CNBC, Truth on the Market, Telecoms.com, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @timsweeneyepic, and @alecstapp
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
DOJ's case against Google relies on proving restrictive contracts protected its dominant position, a similar move to the antitrust case against Microsoft — The Justice Department's antitrust case points to restrictive contracts, a focus that a professor said “is as old as the Sherman Act.”
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CNBC, Axios, Financial Times, Tech Xplore, The Verge, Fortune, Protocol, Axios, and Politico
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @stevelohr
| Wall Street Journal: |
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Mozilla Blog, U.S. Department of Justice, New York Times, news.com.au, VentureBeat, U.S. Department of Justice, Ars Technica, New York Times, Silicon Valley Business …, Techdirt, MSPoweruser, Washington Examiner, Search Engine Roundtable, CNBC, Vanity Fair, Light Reading, PC Gamer, bit-tech.net, Politico, Tech Xplore, Financial Times, infosecurity-magazine.com, Fast Company, The Precursor Blog, Crunchbase News, MediaNama, WinBuzzer, MacDailyNews, Fossbytes, Thurrott, HotHardware.com News, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, IPWatchdog.com, Washington Post, TGDaily, Fortune, Neowin, and Silicon Republic
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| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
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| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
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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PayPal Newsroom, PayPal, Inc., Department of Financial …, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Forbes, Engadget, Cointelegraph, The Verge, Paxos, HotHardware.com News, TweakTown News, Fortune, CNBC, Mashable, CryptoGlobe, Financial Times, Finextra, Cryptonews, NewsBTC, Gizmodo, Ethereum World News, Finbold, CoinGeek, Crypto Briefing, The Next Web, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, Micky, and Silicon Valley Business …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Jeffrey Katzenberg tried to sell Quibi's catalog to NBCUniversal and Facebook, but both passed — Jeffrey Katzenberg may be nearing the end of the road with his mobile video streaming service Quibi. He recently tried to sell its catalog of programming to companies such as NBCUniversal and Facebook.
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The Verge, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Quibi USA/Canada, The Information, The Verge, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Variety, PYMNTS.com, IndieWire, GameSpot, Input, Android Headlines, Reuters, MacDailyNews, Game Rant, Trusted Reviews, Vanity Fair, Neowin, The Streamable, Engadget, Light Reading, Crunchbase News, Cord Cutters News, iDownloadBlog.com, KnowTechie, TechSpot, Android Authority, and CNET
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| Medium: |
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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Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @pierce, and @pkafka
| 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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Upturn, Gizmodo, Vox, TechSpot, and Forbes
Tweets: @oliviasolon, @jacknicas, @teamupturn, @shiraovide, @teamupturn, @josephfcox, and @jacknicas
| 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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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Over 430,000 viewers tuned in simultaneously to watch Rep. Ocasio-Cortez play Among Us on Twitch, the third highest ever for an individual Twitch stream — More than 430,000 people tuned in simultaneously to Twitch on Tuesday night to watch Rep. Alexia Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) play a hit video game as part of an effort to promote voting.
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The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Mashable, New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, and Slate
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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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The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, Input, Social Media Today, Business Insider, MakeUseOf, Gizmodo, Neowin, SlashGear, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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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 … | Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Netflix plans to test a 48-hour free weekend in India, dubbed StreamFest and scheduled for Dec. 4, and may bring the promotion to other countries later — Netflix is looking to promote its service with a 48-hour free streaming event, confirmed COO Greg Peters during the company's Q3 2020 earnings call Tuesday afternoon.| 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 … | Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Descript, which offers a simple podcast editing tool, expands into video editing, letting users edit videos by rearranging a transcript — For the past few years, Descript has offered an intuitive way to edit podcasts, letting you cut, paste, and delete from a written transcript to modify the corresponding audio.| 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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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
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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TikTok, The Guardian, CNET, NBC News, Business Insider, and TechCrunch
| The Intercept: |
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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Business Insider. Tweets: @lhfang, @samfbiddle, @noahpinion, @ethicalgooglers, @william_fitz, @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, and @mer__edith
| 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.
Tweets: @tim_stevens, @faizsays, @geoffreyfowler, and @faizsays
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Pulley, which offers a cap table management service to help startup founders and employees work out equity, raises $10M Series A led by Stripe — Pulley, which provides a platform to help startup founders and employees figure out their equity, raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Stripe.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese tech companies including Huawei have expressed strong concerns to local regulators about Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Arm — - China is unlikely to grant its unconditional blessing — Arm may become another flashpoint in the U.S.-China tech war
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Chinese manufacturer Vivo says it is bringing its smartphones to Europe, including the flagship Vivo X51 5G — The X51 5G goes on sale in major new markets this month — Vivo, one of the largest smartphone brands in the world, is expanding its operations in Europe.
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vivo Global, Android Police, Pandaily, Engadget, and Android Central
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