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November 16, 2019, 8:10 AM

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CNBC:
Twitter bans political ads globally, will allow some “cause-based” ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs  —  - Twitter laid out the framework for its new policy on political ads, which bans certain advertisers and has stricter rules for issue ads.
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
The Supreme Court says it will hear Google's appeal in the copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle over Java APIs  —  - The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear a dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google in a blockbuster case that could lead to billions of dollars in fines and shape copyright law in the internet era.
Colin Lecher / The Verge:
Email: Sundar Pichai says Google is scaling back weekly all-hands “TGIF” meetings to once a month; meetings will focus only “on product and business strategy”  —  CEO announced changes to TGIF meeting in an email  —  Google's weekly town halls, internally known as …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18  —  Hulu is implementing its second price increase in less than a year for its Hulu With Live TV product — with the base package of 60-plus live channels increasing 22%, to $54.99 per month.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: John Legere has no plans to leave T-Mobile and take the CEO job at WeWork  —  - T-Mobile CEO John Legere isn't planning to take the CEO job at WeWork according to people familiar with the matter.  — WeWork, which is being taken over by SoftBank, is considering a number of people for the CEO role.
The Information:
Sources: after exploring partnerships with banks in 2018 to offer an Amazon-branded checking account, Amazon scrapped those plans in their early stages  —  This week, Google confirmed that it will soon offer checking accounts to its users.  But one of the company's biggest rivals—Amazon …
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The Verge:
Creators say YouTube's new labeling policy for kids' content that holds creators solely accountable are murky, as some video categories fall in a gray area  —  The government could sue them for thousands of dollars  —  On Tuesday afternoon, YouTube formally announced its plan to have creators label …
Tiernan Ray / ZDNet:
Facebook's AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between 100 languages, but struggles with the limits of existing computing power  —  Facebook AI research's latest breakthrough in natural language understanding, called XLM-R, performs cross-language tasks …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Verizon releases a Stream TV device running Android TV, heavily featuring YouTube TV, with none of Verizon Media's properties promoted and Netflix app blocked  —  Verizon has an answer to Roku, but it's not talking much about it: The mobile carrier quietly released a new streaming device …

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