Facebook's ban on political ads in the week prior to the election applies to election officials, who use Facebook to inform voters about the voting process
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Amazon responds to JEDI decision, calling it a “politically corrupted contract award” and attacks Trump's role in steering the award away from AWS
Earlier today, the DoD announced it had concluded its corrective action and affirmed its prior JEDI contract award to Microsoft.
In court filing, Epic says Fortnite has 116M iOS users, a third of the game's 350M users, and iOS DAUs declined by 60%+ since its removal from the App Store
Epic is formally asking for a preliminary injunction — Shortly before midnight on the Friday before Labor Day weekend …
Facebook's pre-election ban on political ads will likely suppress important speech and inhibits campaigns' ability to respond to late-breaking news on Facebook
On Thursday, Facebook announced a set of U.S. election season changes to political advertising and content moderation.
Pentagon reaffirms its controversial decision to give JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft; Amazon is likely to continue its legal challenge
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Facebook is testing displaying Instagram Stories directly in the main Facebook app; the test requires users opt in and link their accounts together
Only your Instagram followers can see your stories in Facebook — Some Facebook users have recently noticed that they can now watch …
Facebook says it will take down a video of Trump suggesting people vote twice in North Carolina “unless it is shared to correct the record”
with significant consequences—for one of the most important elections in recent history. That should not be lost in the dust of who these changes will hurt or benefit. https://www.nytimes.com/... Doom...
Researchers: Telmate, a messaging service used by US inmates and their families, exposed a database of messages and personal info of millions of inmates online
Global Tel Link-owned Telmate, which makes an app for prisoners to send messages and make calls to their friends and family …
In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment
In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus. Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci . Tweets: ...
To pre-empt government censorship, 15 OTT services in India, including Disney Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and MX Player adopt a self-regulation code
Fifteen Indian streaming services and digital content companies have adopted a self-regulation code to pre-empt government censorship …
As Oracle tries to buy TikTok, a look at how the company started embracing and building ties with Donald Trump and his administration after the 2016 election
The tech giant stands out in Silicon Valley for its close ties to the administration, which must bless any deal for the social media app.
Sources: unusually large purchases of call options by SoftBank over the past month partly fueled the latest tech stock rally
Hello and welcome to Pipeline. I hope this kicks off a great three-day weekend for you. Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch : Stocks are selling off again, and SaaS shares are taking the biggest lumps Tara Lac...
Under shareholder pressure, Apple quietly publishes its human rights policy based on UN guiding principles, but will follow national law if the two conflict
Patrick McGee / Financial Times :
ThruWave, which uses millimeter wave-based computer vision tech to create 3D images of items inside packages going through retail warehouses, raises $6.4M seed
Seattle startup ThruWave just raised a $6.4 million round for its futuristic technology that uses millimeter waves to see through packaging.
FCC report estimates that removing Chinese equipment will cost small carriers as much as $1.8B, with around $1.6B of the cost eligible for federal reimbursement
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
Amazon deleted 20,000 reviews by 7 of its top 10 UK contributors after an FT analysis found they appeared to profit from posting thousands of five-star ratings
before deleting his review history from Amazon's website” https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Dave Lee / @daveleeft : Amazon publishes a ranking of its top reviewers. In the UK store, our a...
Amazon says it will add an additional 10,000 jobs in Bellevue, WA, on top of the 15,000 announced in February
the same amount it expects to hire in Northern Virginia, or its so-called “HQ2.” Seriously, will the real HQ2 please stand up!? https://twitter.com/... Thanks: @toddbishop
WhatsApp launches website to track security issues, with the company also revealing six previously undisclosed vulnerabilities, now fixed
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Uber and others have added $70M more to their California ballot campaign to keep gig workers as independent contractors, bringing total campaign funds to $181M
Gig companies have poured another $70 million into their ballot campaign to keep drivers and couriers as independent contractors … Tweets: @sfchronicle and @csaid . Thanks: @techchronicle Tweets: @sfc...
Q&A with Box CEO Aaron Levie on the Trump administration, Box's stock rising during the pandemic, decoding his own tweets, competing with tech giants, and more
‘This economy is definitely not sustainable’ … the pandemic flattens much of the U.S. economy, many technology firms are doing just fine. Tweets: @ozm and @kantrowitz Tweets: OneZero / @ozm : “This ec...
ByteDance says it has acquired Chinese third-party payment service UIPay; sources: ByteDance had applied for a digital banking license in Singapore
DOJ updated merger guidelines for the first time in over a decade, modernizing the way it will order fixes, like asset selloffs, to resolve antitrust concerns
Victoria Graham / Bloomberg Law :
Amid the pandemic, tech companies are moving workplace incentives out of the office, focusing more on time-off allowances for parents and mental health support
Arielle Pardes / Wired : Tweets: @nmainland and @dancharvey Tweets: Nathalie Mainland / @nmainland : “In the long term this is not a pandemic response app, it's a system for engagement and health and...
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