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FTC, in coalition with 46 state AGs, plus Guam and DC, sues Facebook, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions were used to stifle competition — Agency challenges Facebook's multi-year course of unlawful conduct — The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook …
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| Jennifer Newstead / About Facebook: |
Facebook responds to the FTC and state AGs, saying the lawsuits they've brought forth are “revisionist history” and their antitrust case is unprecedented — Billions of people use Facebook's products every day. To earn their time and attention, we compete fiercely against many other services across the world.
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| NY State Attorney General: |
New York AG Letitia James leads a coalition of 48 AGs in suing Facebook, alleging the company uses a “buy or bury” approach toward its competitors — AG James Leads Bipartisan Coalition of 48 Attorneys General Charging Anticompetitive Conduct — Facebook Thwarted Competition, Reduced Consumer Privacy for Profits
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Germany initiates antitrust probe against Facebook for tying Oculus use to possession of a Facebook account — Facebook's bad week just got worse: It's being investigated in Germany for linking usage of its VR product, Oculus, to having a Facebook account.
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FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Facebook seeks to unwind Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions, force Facebook to seek approval for future acquisitions, and more — New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit on Wednesday — On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Internal memo: Sundar Pichai apologizes over the handling of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru's departure and says he will investigate — Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized Wednesday for the company's handling of the departure of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru and said he would investigate …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Adobe has released its final scheduled Flash Player update for all regions outside of mainland China, says it will block Flash content from January 12 — Adobe releases final Flash update with stronger language asking users to uninstall the app before its EOL.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Airbnb raises $3.5B in its IPO at $68 per share, up from a previous $56-$60 range, giving it a fully diluted valuation of $47.3B — Airbnb on Wednesday raised $3.5 billion in its IPO at a fully diluted valuation of around $47.3 billion, and will begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol ABNB.
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| Kyle Hyatt / Roadshow: |
Report: Hyundai Motor Group has agreed to purchase Boston Dynamics, maker of the Spot quadruped robot, from SoftBank for around $921M — The acquisition has been expected since early November. … Hey, remember those deeply unsettling robot dogs that have been creeping out the internet for years and recently went into production?
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| D. M. Moore / Polygon: |
AT&T has agreed to sell Japanese anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony's Funimation Global Group for $1.18B — The move consolidates the anime industry in a major way — On Wednesday, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. announced that AT&T and WarnerMedia agreed to sell Crunchyroll to Funimation.
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| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple and Google to ban mobile apps that use location trackers from data broker X-Mode, after it was revealed X-Mode provided data to US government contractors — After the data broker came under scrutiny for national-security work, tech giants tell app developers to remove trackers or lose access to their operating systems
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Hibob, which provides cloud-based HR management software, raises $70M Series B led by Seek and Israel Growth Partners, sources say at a ~$500M valuation — Productivity software has been getting a major re-examination this year, and human resources platforms — used for hiring, firing … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
French data protection agency CNIL fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for placing tracking cookies without consent — France's data protection agency, the CNIL, has slapped Google and Amazon with fines for dropping tracking cookies without consent. — Google has been hit with a total …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
DoorDash closes at $189.51, up 85% from its $102 pricing, after popping to $182 as the shares began trading, giving a valuation of $60.2B — - Shares of DoorDash, a leading food delivery app, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. — The stock began trading at $182 per share and closed at $189.51.
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National Weather Service says it has an Internet bandwidth problem and proposes limiting users to 60 connections/minute, which could hurt weather apps and sites — Agency floats a solution to problems that could hobble private companies and affect popular weather apps.| Jessie Williamson / Outside Online: |
Profile of eBird, a database created in 2002 that is now a global go-to platform for anyone to log bird sightings; over 120M observations are entered per year — In July 1992, two Danish birders visiting Patagonia, Arizona reported the first-ever, mega-rare cinnamon hummingbird in the United States.
Tweets: @jdflynn, @outsidemagazine, @outsidemagazine, @outsidemagazine, and @birdizlife
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Inside Ovarit, an invite-only Reddit-like site founded by members of the “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” subreddit r/GenderCritical that Reddit banned — Mary Kate Fain, a 27-year-old engineer and writer living in Houston, has always considered herself a feminist.
Tweets: @sullydish, @elongreen, @sullydish, @fake_minnesotan, @katymontgomerie, @alisonphipps, and @mimmymum
| Sasha Lekach / Mashable: |
Uber says it is rolling out Uber Connect, its same-day, no-contact local package delivery service introduced in April, to 2,400+ new cities and towns in the US — Back in April, Uber was scrambling to provide something for its users who were no longer ordering ride-shares because, well, many of us were stuck at home.| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo Switch, distributed in China by Tencent, has sold an estimated 1.3M+ units in 2020, almost 2x the combined 2020 sales of PS4 and Xbox One in China — - Nintendo Switch is China's all-time favorite console — Partner Tencent has leveraged mobile and social dominance
Tweets: @gibbogame, @cvxfreak, @arjunkharpal, and @stealth40k
| Mark Haranas / CRN: |
Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks raises $36.6M Series C led by AWS with participation from GV, Accel, and others, bringing total raised to $60M — Growing at a triple-digit clip, Kubernetes cloud management startup Weaveworks is attracting top- notch investors including AWS, Ericsson and Google Ventures.
Tweets: @crn and @quinnypig
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Seoul-based CHAI, whose API helps e-commerce companies accept over 20 payment options, has raised $60M Series B, following a $15M Series A in February — Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is good news … Sponsor Posts
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