A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful
And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch” Todd Bishop / GeekWire : ‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli The Logic on Crowdcast : Amazon's road to...
Goldman Sachs offloads major BNPL player GreenSky for an undisclosed sum to a group of money managers, after acquiring the company for $1.7B in 2021
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Profile of Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer and SVP of global affairs who helped it fend off antitrust probes in 10+ countries including India and UK
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How Sundar Pichai is leading Google at a time when many of the company's strengths become the focus of intense public criticism and antitrust scrutiny
The low-key chief is contending with possible antitrust lawsuits, a revenue drop and pressure to take the company in new directions Tweets: @realrobcopeland , @wsjtech , @georgikantchev , @wsj , @alex...
House Judiciary Committee demands Jeff Bezos testify at a hearing on Amazon's alleged misuse of third-party seller data or face a potential subpoena
Dems & Republicans on the House Judiciary have sent a letter to Jeff Bezos insisting that he testify. The letter says that Amazon appears to have “exploited its role” to harm competition & appears to ...
Google says it is restructuring its Cloud business, including eliminating some roles; source says fewer than 50 employees are affected
- Google is restructuring its Cloud group internally, which will include eliminating some roles, a Google spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. Source: Wall Street Journal . Tweets: @realrobcopeland , @jenn...
Google partnered with Ascension, the 2nd-largest US health-care system, to analyze personal health info of millions, sources say as part of Project Nightingale
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Google removed a game from the Play store that allowed players to role-play as Hong Kong protesters, says it violated rules related to “sensitive events”
they did the same thing to the New York Times in 2017. https://www.theverge.com/... Bryan Fischer / @bryanjfischer : When China tells Apple and Google to jump, their only question is how high. https:/...
Sources: YouTube is considering far-reaching changes to protect kids, including moving all children's content to the YouTube Kids app and turning off autoplay
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Sources: Thiel's Founders Fund bought $15-$20M in bitcoin, now worth hundreds of millions, spread across multiple funds, one of which began investing in mid-'17
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