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Bezos statement to US House underscores Amazon's job creation, investments in social causes, and its role in supporting small and medium-sized businesses — Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law — Statement by Jeffrey P. Bezos Founder & Chief …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook will tell US lawmakers that App Store has opened the “gate wider” for developers, Apple isn't anticompetitive, and doesn't have “dominant market share” — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will tell U.S. lawmakers probing his company's market power …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sundar Pichai will tell lawmakers that Google operates in a “highly competitive” market and that its free products benefit the “average American” — - Ahead of a Wednesday House Judiciary hearing, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai released opening remarks that show … | Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico: |
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter work to pull versions of a video touting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure, after it was shared by Trump and his allies — - A Breitbart video containing dangerous coronavirus misinformation went viral on Facebook before it was removed.
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
US DOJ asks federal judge for permission to drop charges against two ex-Twitter employees and a Saudi national who allegedly helped Riyadh spy on dissidents — The U.S. filed a revised indictment against two former Twitter Inc. employees and a Saudi national, alleging the three spied …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AMC and Universal agree to shorten the theatrical window for films to 17 days, or 3 weekends, before Universal can release them onto premium on-demand platforms — Films only have to be in theaters for three weekends now before going to digital platforms — AMC Theaters and Universal …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google and Samsung are in talks about giving Google products more prominence on Samsung phones, including more control over search — - Google Assistant, Play app store may gain more prominent roles — Samsung seeks other revenue sources as handset demand drops
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches a new Family Safety app for iOS and Android that lets users manage screen time and app usage — Content filters, location sharing, and much more — Microsoft is launching a new Family Safety app for iOS and Android this week. The software giant has been testing the app …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify debuts Group Session feature in beta, letting up to five premium users simultaneously listen to same content — Simultaneously stream music or podcasts — Spotify is now allowing its paying users to listen to music and podcasts with friends and family at the same time, even if they aren't in the same location.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Over about 8 years, Rite Aid quietly added facial recognition systems in 200 US stores, largely in low income areas, claiming it was meant to deter theft — In the hearts of New York and metro Los Angeles, Rite Aid installed facial recognition technology in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods, Reuters found.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Revel suspends its electric moped service in NYC after two people were killed in recent weeks; at least one was not wearing a helmet during the crash — Two people were killed and one was critically injured while riding the shared electric mopeds — Revel is suspending its service …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
In a reversal, CES says its event planned for January 2021 will be going all-digital, using a virtual meeting format for vendors, attendees, and the press — CES 2021 will take place in January as an all-digital event since the organizers feel it's the only way they can protect attendees during the pandemic.
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CES. Tweets: @quinnypig, @ces, @mkbhd, @deantak, @ces, @backlon, @jctechfuture, @frankcatalano, and @sam_l_shead. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Nick Kolakowski / Dice Insights: |
In July, a H-1B software engineers' median salary at Google, Microsoft, and Apple was at least $142K, a substantial increase from at least $120K in October 2019 — How much are software engineers on the H-1B visa making at some of the nation's largest tech companies? At first glance, the answer seems simple: quite a lot.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Toppr, an e-learning service in India covering 17 subjects and preparing students for five dozen competitive exams, raises $46M led by Foundation Holdings — Toppr, one of the largest online learning startups in India, has secured $46 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale its platform including a new product.
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
In a white paper about its plans for AI, WeChat-owner Tencent lists the societal benefits of deepfake technology and urges regulators to be lenient — It wants to commercialize the technology in entertainment and e-commerce and asks regulators to be lenient.| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Profile of Imint, a Swedish company that makes deep learning software for phone manufacturers like Huawei, Vivo, and Oppo to stabilize videos in real time — If your phone takes amazing photos, chances are its camera has been augmented by artificial intelligence embedded in the operating system.
Tweets: @ritacyliao
| The Markup: |
Study of 15K+ recent popular queries finds Google devoted 41% of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties and “direct answers” — The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
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| New York Times: |
Sources: after Airbnb and ClassPass began selling virtual classes, Apple wanted to collect its 30% commission on the sales, up from no fee previously — After Airbnb and ClassPass began selling virtual classes because of the pandemic, Apple tried to collect its commission on the sales.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
TransferWise announces a new $319M secondary share sale round led by Lone Pine Capital and D1 Capital Partners at a $5B valuation — - TransferWise employees and early investors sold some of their stakes in a $319 million secondary deal. — The company's $5 billion valuation makes …
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