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Facebook’s Libra currency abandoned by major financial companies
The Biden campaign asked Google and Twitter to take down Trump's misleading campaign ad, in addition to asking Facebook, and both companies refused the request
NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020
Twitter says user data meant for security purposes may have been used for advertising
Sensor Tower: Tencent's Call of Duty: Mobile had 100M game downloads in first week, breaking prior record of 26M set by PUBG, has yet to launch in China
U.S. expands blacklist to include China's top AI startups ahead of trade talks
Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida
Samsung projects operating income of $6.4B in Q3, beating estimates, but down 56% YoY amid continued weakness in memory chip price and demand
Estimated 40 U.S. state attorneys general will join Facebook probe: source.
Norway's largest pension fund KLP exits oil sands companies
SCOTUS refuses to review a 2018 decision by appeals court that found Apple didn't infringe on a Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison patent and threw out $506M in damages
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage appeal
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Houston Rockets general manager apologises for Hong Kong protest tweet
Paypal becomes first member to exit Facebook’s Libra association
Sources: SoftBank is struggling to raise money for Vision Fund 2; it is likely to be far smaller, at least at the start, than the $108B it said it had lined up
Turkey fines Facebook $282,000 over privacy breach
Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
Troubles with Tesla's automated parking summon safety regulators
London court allows mass claim against Google over iPhone data
WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO
Revolut partners with Visa to expand into 24 new markets including the US and Japan by the end of 2019, plans to increase staff from 1500 to 5000 by next summer
Sources: Nasdaq tightens restrictions and slows approvals for small Chinese firms' IPOs, which increasingly raise a majority of capital from Chinese investors
Sources: a US online privacy bill is not likely to come before Congress in 2019, forcing companies to deal with a stricter law in CA that takes effect on Jan. 1
Pope urges Silicon Valley to avoid slide toward new “barbarism”
Norway will not ban Huawei from 5G mobile network: minister – Reuters
Exclusive: Oracle says investigators have asked it for information about Google
Peloton prices its IPO at $29/share, at the top of the range, raising $1.16B at ~$8.1B valuation; Peloton was reportedly valued at ~$4.15B in its latest round
US will stay in global postal union
Facebook will not label or remove politicians’ rule-breaking posts
U.S. lawmakers propose $1 billion fund to replace Huawei equipment
You have the right to be forgotten by Google – but only in Europe
Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report
Hyundai Motor Group, Aptiv to set up $4B self-driving car venture
Hyundai Motor Group to invest $1.6B in cash and $400M in R&D in a $4B self-driving vehicle joint venture with Dublin-based Aptiv, with both owning 50% stakes
Der Spiegel: US dollar could make up 50% of the basket of currencies backing Libra, followed by 18% of euro, 14% yen, 11% British pound, and 7% Singapore dollar
The United Arab Emirates has hired american hackers from the NSA to attack rivals, political dissidents and journalists
In tech ‘awakening,’ U.S. workers at Google, Amazon join climate protests
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