Teladoc Health, which runs BetterHelp, settles with the FTC for $7.8M and agrees to stop sharing data with Meta, Snap, and other companies for ad purposes
Wow! — In these kinds of cases consider the incentives to government to allow terrible things to go on long enough for a nice pile of case to accrue, then demand a cut of the take — rather then keep...
a16z invests in Adam Neumann's residential real estate management startup Flow, sources say ~$350M at a $1B+ valuation, the firm's largest-ever individual check
Our nation has a housing crisis. — The demographic trends driving … Ryan Deffenbaugh / Protocol : Can proptech go with Adam Neumann's Flow? Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE : NIMBY Marc Andreessen Gives WeW...
Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently
Good morning! This Wednesday, markets are booming … Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1437: new Honor phones to struggle for chips, UK government accused of blocking FOI, Covid's smart muta...
A look at the tight links between employees at big tech companies and Joe Biden's campaign, despite his criticism of the Silicon Valley giants
While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups. Tweets: @awins...
Documents and sources: the Global Antitrust Institute, which trains regulators to take a hands-off approach to antitrust, is funded by Google, Amazon, Qualcomm
Google, Amazon and Qualcomm finance a George Mason University institute teaching a hands-off approach to antitrust regulators and judges. Tweets: @rondeibert , @conordougherty , @econ_marshall , @eric...
Sources: at all-hands, Snap CEO said he would not release diversity numbers so as not to reinforce the perception minority groups are underrepresented in tech
- At a company all-hands meeting on Tuesday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel addressed concerns of racism at the company … Tweets: @paigeleskin , @cgrantwsj , @_harshilshah , @carnage4life , @ryannmcenany , @ia...
In internal email lists Amazon corporate employees express dismay over the firing of Christian Smalls and a report that management discussed a plan to smear him
“not smart, or articulate” — if the warehouse worker had been white. https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/... R Givan / @rkgwork : “A worker at the bottom of our company's hierarchy being treat...
Filings: Google moved $19.2B to Bermuda shell company in 2016, up 7% YoY, to save $3.7B+ in taxes; money moved between Irish firms and Dutch firm with no staff
'Black Mirror' and Why Tech Should Be Feared Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Google moved $19.2B into Bermuda shell company in 2016, new filings show Nick Statt / The Verge : Google s...