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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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| New York Times: |
Legal experts say FTC and state AGs will find it challenging to prove their allegations against Facebook because the standards of proof are formidable — The U.S. and states cases against the social network are far from a slam dunk because the standards of proof are formidable.
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| 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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| 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
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| 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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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Germany launches an antitrust probe into Facebook tying Oculus use to possession of a Facebook account — Facebook's bad week just got worse: It's being investigated in Germany for linking usage of its VR product, Oculus, to having a Facebook account. — The tech giant raised the hackles …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Google launches knowledge panels in search results to show accurate information about coronavirus vaccines, starting with the UK — - Google has launched new knowledge panels to show people accurate information about coronavirus vaccines. — The feature is only available in the U.K …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Shopping in Instagram Reels, rolling out globally starting today, letting businesses and creators tag products when they create Reels — Instagram today is launching Shopping in Reels, its TikTok competitor. The new feature was announced in October as something the company …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Adobe has released its final scheduled Flash Player update for all regions outside of mainland China and will block Flash content from January 12 — Adobe releases final Flash update with stronger language asking users to uninstall the app before its EOL. — Adobe has released on Tuesday …
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| Washington Post: |
National Weather Service says it has an Internet bandwidth problem and proposes limiting users to 60 connections/minute, which could hurt weather apps and sites — Agency floats a solution to problems that could hobble private companies and affect popular weather apps.
Tweets: @ron_miller, @raju, @afreedma, @weather_west, @davidbernardtv, @capitalweather, and @ericgeller
| 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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| 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?
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Fairmarkit, which provides enterprise procurement software for clients like Boston's mass transit system, raises $30M Series B, bringing total raised to $42M — As the pandemic has raged on, it has shined a spotlight on the importance of procurement, especially in certain sectors.| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Inside Ovarit, an invite-only Reddit-like site founded by members of the “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” subreddit r/GenderCritical that Reddit banned — Mary Kate Fain, a 27-year-old engineer and writer living in Houston, has always considered herself a feminist.
Tweets: @sullydish, @elongreen, @sullydish, @fake_minnesotan, @katymontgomerie, @alisonphipps, and @mimmymum
| 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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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Biden staffers say their experiences in dealing with Facebook during the election left them concerned that the company is a threat to the electoral process — Inside the battle between Biden and Facebook. — Opinion Writer at Large — In the days after the election …
Tweets: @cwarzel, @ethannichtern, @brendannyhan, @whotargetsme, @nytopinion, @anandwrites, @melissaryan, @noahshachtman, @cwarzel, and @cwarzel
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Hibob, which provides cloud-based HR management software, raises $70M Series B led by Seek and Israel Growth Partners, sources say at a ~$500M valuation — Productivity software has been getting a major re-examination this year, and human resources platforms — used for hiring, firing … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Boast.ai, which develops software that automates the process of claiming R&D tax credits, raises $23M Series A led by Radian Capital — Boast.ai, a startup developing software that automates the process of claiming R&D tax credits, today raised $23 million in venture capital.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
French data protection agency CNIL fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for placing tracking cookies without consent — France's data protection agency, the CNIL, has slapped Google and Amazon with fines for dropping tracking cookies without consent. — Google has been hit with a total …
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BBC, International Business Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Verge, RFI, CNBC, Forbes, The Irish Times, Fortune, and MediaNama. Tweets: @mikebutcher. Thanks:@riptari
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Cleo, creator of an AI-powered financial assistance app and chatbot, raises $44M Series B led by EQT Ventures — Cleo, the London founded “financial assistant” that takes the form of an app and chatbot and now counts the U.S. as its largest market, has raised $44 million in Series B funding.| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
LeanTaaS, which uses AI to minimize appointment wait times in hospitals and clinics, raises $130M Series D, bringing its total raised to over $250M — LeanTaaS, a predictive analytics company based in Charlotte, North Carolina and Santa Clara, California that leverages data science …
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