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At the hearing, Bezos, Cook, Zuckerberg, and Pichai will argue their businesses are relatively small, exist in competitive environments, and benefit consumers — The C.E.O.s are likely to argue before Congress that their companies aren't anticompetitive. Here are the facts.
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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 …
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Big Tech's antitrust hearing is largely theater, producing soundbites with little bearing on rule-changing and law-making, but it's still a valuable spectacle — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in October 2019. Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images| The Amazon Blog: |
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 … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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TikTok's new CEO Kevin Mayer says it'll release code driving its content moderation algorithms, accuses Facebook of maligning attacks “disguised as patriotism” — In his first public statement as CEO of TikTok, f ormer Disney exec Kevin Mayer says the company will be releasing …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: some US investors in ByteDance, seeking to take over TikTok, are valuing the social media app at ~$50B, 50x its projected ~$1B revenue in 2020 — NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Some investors of TikTok's parent company ByteDance seeking to take over the popular social media app … | Reuters: |
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says TikTok is being reviewed by CFIUS, which will make a recommendation to Trump — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Wednesday that TikTok was under a national security review and that his agency would make a recommendation …
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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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify reports Q2 revenue of €1.89B, up 13% YoY, with MAUs up 29% YoY to 299M, premium users up 27% to 138M, and ad-supported MAUs up 31% to 170M — In addition, ad revenue fell 21% — which Spotify blamed on the coronavirus pandemic — but the drop wasn't quite as bad as forecast.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Tempo, which sells a $2,000 AI-powered home weight training system, raises $60M Series B led by Norwest Venture Partners and General Catalyst — Home fitness startup Tempo today closed a $60 million round to ramp up manufacturing of its $1,995 AI-powered gym system.
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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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Wearable devices with sensors that continuously gather your temperature, heart rate, and blood oxygen may become personal warning systems for COVID-19 — Wearable devices with sensors that continuously gather your temperature, heart rate and blood oxygen could become personal warning systems for the coronavirus
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| Marc Santora / New York Times: |
Turkey passes law extending sweeping powers over social media platforms, ordering those with 1M+ DAU to open offices in the country and store user data locally — The legislation extends control over social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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| Sabahatjahan Contractor / Reuters: |
US prosecutors are seeking 27 months in prison for ex-Uber executive Anthony Levandowski, who pleaded guilty in March to taking sensitive documents from Google — (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are seeking 27 months of imprisonment for the former head of Uber's self-driving technology unit … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Shopify reports Q2 revenue of $714.3M, up 97% YoY, with net income of $36M compared with net loss of $28.7M in Q2 2019 — Shopify's second quarter results highlight how the company is critical to SMBs going digital. — Shopify's second quarter results benefited from a surge in small businesses … | Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Federal judge in NY ruled that the state must promptly begin paying Uber and Lyft drivers unemployment benefits, after “an avoidable and inexcusable delay” — A federal judge's decision in New York is a key victory in efforts to secure the protections extended to other workers.| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
Former moderators at Pinterest say they had inadequate resources and minimal mental health support as they fought to keep child abuse imagery off the platform — Moderators reported seeing child pornography content ‘every couple hours’ — a good day, Blake's job as a Pinterest moderator … | Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
After seeking to dismiss charges against two ex-Twitter employees and a Saudi national, DOJ files a superseding indictment with seven charges, up from two — The charges have expanded from two to seven. — Fresh off dismissing spying charges against two former Twitter employees … | Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Israeli cloud data protection startup Ermetic raises $17.25M Series A led by Accel, three months after emerging from stealth with $10M — Three months after emerging from stealth mode with $10 million, Israeli cloud security startup Ermetic has raised another $17.25 million, this time from Accel.
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| 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.| Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab: |
Q&A with the new CEO of NYT Meredith Levien on establishing the paper as a world-class digital product and technology company — Meredith Kopit Levien knew early on that she'd like to head up a news publishing company. She just never expected she would end up as the CEO of The New York Times …
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