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After a 16-month probe, House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple enjoy “monopoly power” and suggest antitrust changes that could break them up — - After a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says it “vehemently disagrees” with the conclusions reached in US House report and doesn't have dominant marketshare in any categories of its businesses — Earlier today, the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee completed its ongoing antitrust investigation …
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Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms, removing all Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts that represent QAnon — Facebook said Tuesday that it is banning all QAnon accounts from its platforms, a significant escalation over its previous action and one of the broadest rules …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack says it will add Snapchat-like stories and push-to-talk audio calls before end of 2020 — Get ready to Slack your daily stories — Slack is getting ready to introduce Instagram-like stories and push-to-talk audio into its communications software before the end of 2020.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Slack unveils new features to allow messaging between companies, including Connect DMs, Verified Organizations, more, coming later this year or early next year — Slack is holding its Frontiers conference this week — virtually like everyone else in 2020 — and it's introducing some new features … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony publishes a full PS5 teardown, revealing removable sides, dust catchers, storage expansion, and more — A closer look inside the PlayStation 5 — Sony has published a seven-minute teardown video of the PS5. The teardown gives us the best look at the PS5 so far …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel says its 11th-gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will arrive in Q1 2021, with PCIe 4.0 support; AMD is set to unveil new CPUs at an event tomorrow — Just ahead of AMD's own next-gen Zen 3 announcement — Intel has confirmed that its 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop processors will be out sometime … | Bloomberg: |
How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications — Jason Gelinas lived a normal suburban life with a plum Wall Street gig. He also ran the conspiracy theory's biggest news hub.| Bloomberg: |
As Google and Oracle face off in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, both have funded outside groups that signed amicus briefs, often without disclosure — - Both companies funded some who signed friend-of-court briefs — Supreme Court rules don't require general funding disclosures
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| New York Times: |
Trump administration announces changes to the H-1B visa program, substantially raising the wages companies must pay and narrowing the eligibility criteria — Four weeks before the election, the Trump administration has announced stricter rules for the H-1B visa program, which U.S. companies have long valued.
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mmhmm, Phil Libin's virtual presentation startup, raises $21M Series A led by Sequoia alongside $5M from Libin's startup studio All Turtles and $5M in debt — Covering venture capital, software and startups — As Phil Libin speaks his Zoom background changes rapidly … | Izabella Kaminska / Financial Times: |
UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote — UK Information Commission concludes three-year investigation into digital marketing group — A sprawling investigation …
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SK Hynix says it is launching the world's first DDR5 DRAM chips, which support data transfer rate of 4,800-5,600 Mbps while operating at 1.1V vs. 1.2V for DDR4 — Back in July, JEDEC finalized the specifications for DDR5 memory, and laid out a number of key performance advantages … | Ingrid Lunden / Techcrunch: |
Shogun, which helps companies build e-commerce sites on top of back-ends like Shopify or Magento, raises $35M Series B led by Accel — E-commerce has boomed this year, with more businesses and shoppers than ever before turning to websites and apps as a safer, socially distanced alternative during the current global health pandemic.| Reuters: |
Sources: Google is facing an antitrust investigation in India over allegedly abusing the dominance of Android in the smart TV market — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Google is facing a new antitrust case in India in which the U.S. tech giant is alleged to have abused …
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Survey: TikTok has surpassed Instagram as the second most popular social app for US teens, with 34% choosing Snapchat, 29% TikTok, and 25% Instagram — - TikTok has surpassed Instagram as teenagers' second favorite social media app, according to a report published on Tuesday.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft says the US Labor Department is probing whether Microsoft's diversity efforts constitute racial discrimination by a government contractor — The Labor Department has been probing whether Microsoft's goal of increasing Black representation in its ranks constitutes racial discrimination, the software maker disclosed Tuesday.
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Sources: Trump administration is exploring restrictions on Ant Group and Tencent's payments platforms, although a final decision isn't imminent — - Threat of Trump measures casts new shadow over Ant Group IPO — The Trump administration is exploring restrictions on billionaire Jack Ma's Ant Group … Sponsor Posts
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