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Investigation finds illicit THC products are being openly hawked on Instagram and Facebook; Facebook removed 19 groups and Instagram removed posts and hashtags
Nancy Pelosi slams Facebook's "shameful" behaviour, saying it doesn't "care about truth" and schmoozes Trump's admin to avoid taxes and antitrust action
Steve Bannon’s warning to Apple: ‘I would pay attention’ to Trump’s tweet on unlocking iPhones
US and China sign "phase one" trade deal that they say will clamp down on counterfeit and pirated goods, some of which end up on Amazon and other platforms
In a tweet, Trump criticizes Apple for refusing to unlock phones of violent criminals, says his administration helps Apple "all of the time" on trade
Amazon reinstates FedEx's ground delivery for Prime shipments, saying the shipper has consistently met its delivery requirements, after suspending it last month
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Boeing posts negative commercial airplane orders in 2019 for first time in decades
Cloudera names former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden as its new CEO; Cloudera's market cap is $3.4B, less than its $5.2B valuation when it merged with Hortonworks
Visa is buying Plaid, which helps popular fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, for $5.3B
Taiwan and South Korea expand tech influence as trade war drags on
Uber to end operations in Colombia on January 31, after courts side with the local competition authority, which found that Uber broke market rules
The streaming wars aim to kick off a new era in TV advertising
Alphabet's Verily hires Deepak Ahuja, the former CFO of Tesla who helped take it public, as its CFO
Google starts selling Android search privileges to the highest bidder in EU in a quarterly auction; Bing will appear only in UK between March 1 and June 30
SoftBank-backed Zume is laying off half its staff and shuttering its pizza delivery business
Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says
Apple privacy officer says that ‘building back doors’ to access iPhone data won’t help solve crimes
Amazon bans sponsored products related to political campaigns, but you can still find them on the site
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Bernie Sanders taps Amazon employees to blast the company’s record on climate change
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Streaming wars will force media companies to choose between pricey subscriptions and ads
Hyundai and Uber team up to debut new flying taxis at CES
Google employees are complaining the company has changed — this chart shows one reason why. Google management faces a company that has seen blockbuster growth each year since the company went public. It has grown eight-fold from a decade ago. In 2019, the company surpassed 100,000 employees.
Google sacrificed its ‘don’t be evil’ mantra to grow bigger, former exec says
Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
Microsoft says North Korea-based hackers were stealing sensitive information
Critics slam study claiming YouTube’s algorithm doesn’t lead to radicalization
The battery decade: How energy storage could revolutionize industries in the next 10 years
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner talks about the company's evolution after acquisition by Microsoft, integration with Outlook and other Microsoft products, and more
Elon Musk says Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel will ‘hopefully’ be operational next year
Tesla set to begin deliveries of China-made Model 3 cars on December 30
A look at Netflix's meteoric growth in the past decade, which saw its stock deliver more than 4,000% return, the best performing among S&P 500 companies
How Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign changed Big Tech forever
FAA issues a new rule requiring most drones to implement remote ID systems that allow tracking by law enforcement, says it expects compliance within three years
Uber says Travis Kalanick, its former CEO, will step down from the company's board of directors effective Dec. 31; Kalanick has sold all of his stock in Uber
Tesla stock reaches $420 more than a year after Musk’s notorious ‘funding secured’ tweet
Boeing fires CEO Dennis Muilen
Mike Bloomberg is plowing millions of dollars into a secretive tech firm
Amazon blocks sellers from using FedEx ground-delivery shipping
Reddit · 1 month ago
Boeing will suspend 737 Max production in January
US has only one offshore wind energy farm, but a $70 billion market is on the way
New Orleans shuts off computers after cyberattack, following two big incidents in Louisiana this year
Apple accused of monitoring employee text messages in lawsuit against ex-chip exec
Morgan Stanley estimates Amazon is delivering half of its US packages, will soon pass UPS and FedEx in total volume, at a current rate of 2.5B packages a year
Techmeme · 1 month ago