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Sources: China summoned US and global tech giants to warn of dire consequences if they cooperate with Trump bans, hinting US companies should lobby against bans — SAN FRANCISCO — The Chinese government this past week summoned major tech companies from the United States and elsewhere to warn … | Financial Times: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Some European mobile traffic was rerouted through China Telecom due to a BGP leak at a Swiss colocation company which was accused of a similar mistake in 2018 — It was China Telecom, again. The same ISP accused last year of “hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries.”
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Tech giants don't fit neatly into existing models for antitrust action, since they regularly add new businesses to keep up with tech and provide free services — As federal regulators and Congress zero in on Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, they're about to encounter one of the most difficult rulemaking challenges in US history.| New York Times: |
Google bought 270 companies since 2001, Facebook bought 92 since 2007, some direct or nascent competitors; only one Google acquisition was challenged by the US — “Big tech” companies like Google and Facebook are, in reality, the products of hundreds of mergers.
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Profile of 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, who wants to leverage the falling costs of genetic sequencing and the company's DNA library to fuel a “biotech machine” — Anne Wojcicki is 45 minutes late, something so encoded in her habits as 23andMe's CEO that employees have stopped complaining about it.| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Google details the root cause behind the recent outage that caused Google Cloud to lose a third of its traffic, which affected Snapchat and YouTube among others — FIVE DAYS AGO, the internet had a conniption. In broad patches around the globe, YouTube sputtered. Shopify stores shut down.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon VP Sean Scott talks about how his team built the Scout delivery robot, which is currently in field testing, how Scout finds its way around, and more — Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot. At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact …
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How 12,000+ videos watched by a young man on YouTube since 2015 first pulled him into a far-right rabbit hole and more recently into a left-wing universe — Over years of reporting on internet culture, I've heard countless versions of Mr. Cain's story: an aimless young man — usually white … | Bloomberg: |
Uber COO Barney Harford and CMO Rebecca Messina are leaving the company — Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi is parting ways with two top lieutenants in a major leadership overhaul. Barney Harford, the chief operating officer, and Rebecca Messina …
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| Charles McLellan / ZDNet: |
How Lenovo is trying to bring together PCs, smartphones, and data centre hardware into a comprehensive strategy via its three main business groups — Lenovo, a leading PC manufacturer and a top-five player in the server market, has recently returned its smartphone group to profitability.| Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot: |
Peter Bright, also known as @DrPizza, who was an Ars Technica contributing writer, has been arrested on charges of soliciting sex with children online — Warning: This article contains graphic sexual language. — Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online.
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| Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg: |
FedEx says it will not renew its US air-shipping contract with Amazon, and says the online retailer accounted for 1.3% of FedEx 2018 revenue — FedEx Corp. said it wouldn't renew its U.S. air-delivery contract with Amazon.com Inc., as the courier focuses on “serving the broader e-commerce market.”
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