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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
European Commission says it has opened an antitrust investigation into whether Google favors its own display ad tech over rivals  —  Brussels to examine whether US group broke rules by giving an advantage to its own services  —  The EU has announced a formal investigation …
Ian Hamilton / UploadVR:
After agreeing to be Facebook's first VR ad test partner, Resolution Games says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game Blaston  —  Resolution Games won't be moving forward with a Facebook advertising test in its paid VR game Blaston.  —  The studio may still consider testing ads in its free fishing game Bait!
Jon Porter / The Verge:
London's mayor says the Underground will have mobile coverage by the end of 2024 across the entire network, with some popular stations by the end of 2022  —  Popular stations like Oxford Circus, Euston, and Bank will connected by end of 2022  —  By the end of 2024, passengers …
Global Times:
China's Sichuan Province closes crypto mines, following Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan; an estimated 90% of China's mining capacity has now been shut down
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Current and former Google execs say the company suffers from both its size and Sundar Pichai's leadership, marked by delayed decisions and raging culture fights  —  Despite record profits, a number of them are worried that the company is suffering from both its size and leadership from its C.E.O., Sundar Pichai.
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
UK government says it will test its new national Emergency Alerts system, starting with Android devices today before a smaller, regional iPhone test next week  —  The U.K. government on Tuesday will perform its first national test of a new Emergency Alerts system, but only Android users …
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Boston-based Transmit Security, which is building a biometric-based authenticator, raises $543M Series A at a $2.2B pre-money valuation  —  Transmit Security, a Boston-based startup that's on a mission to rid the world of passwords, has raised a massive $543 million in Series A funding.
Nicole Lee / Engadget:
TikTok launches TikTok Jump to let creators enhance their videos by adding mini-app integrations from select partners including Whisk, Wikipedia, Quizlet, more  —  TikTok creators may no longer need to add a “link in bio,” at least to certain kinds of content.  Today,
Kait Bolongaro / Bloomberg:
Canadian lawmakers pass a controversial bill that would subject tech giants to the same requirements as traditional broadcasters; bill now heads to the Senate  —  - Move would prioritize Canadian content, echoing broadcast law  — But critics say it threatens free speech on user-driven sites
Katharine Schwab / Fast Company:
Survey of 37 tech giants: $3.8B committed to diversity efforts in 2020 and 2021, ~2/3 had made some kind of DEI policy change after the summer 2020 protests  —  One year after protests against police brutality shook much of the corporate world awake to the problems of racial equity in the workplace …
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
A timeline of Google's long list of mostly-defunct messaging apps and services, starting in 2004 with Gmail and progressing to Google Talk, Hangouts, and Allo  —  What a decade and a half of confusing services can tell us about the future  —  Over the past 15 years, Google has introduced …
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
G2, which crowdsources enterprise software reviews and helps paying customers glean insights, raises $157M Series D at a $1B+ valuation  —  Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021.  —  Business software review marketplace G2 (formerly known as G2 Crowd) …
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
As the BBC fights Trump's $10B lawsuit and ITV plans to combine its broadcasting business with Sky in 2026, a look at the slow death of the UK's TV channels

The Guardian:
The UK has spent more than £500K since 2024, including £350K by the Department for Education, on 215 influencers to promote government campaigns

Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
HPE says it has acquired Determined AI, which is developing an open source platform for building machine learning models; terms of the deal were not disclosed
Katherine Anne Long / The Seattle Times:
Internal docs: Amazon tries to push 6% of its office staff out of the company each year, calling the loss of low-ranked office workers “unregretted attrition”
BBC:
How North Korean hackers nearly stole $951M from Bangladesh Bank's New York Fed account in 2016, only to be stopped at the last moment after transferring $81M
The Information:
Sources: Shopify is rolling out a service that will let BuzzFeed and other content publishers link to merchants in exchange for a cut of transaction revenue
Richard Pallot / ITV:
Investigation finds Amazon has been destroying thousands of unsold goods at its UK-based Dunfermline warehouse; source says 130K items are destroyed per week
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook rolls out Live Audio Rooms, available to verified public figures and select Groups, and its podcast service, available to select partners, in the US
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