The report detailed how Russia was suspected of using fakes and planted stories to wreak havoc on the West during the Cold War through influence operations rather than military might. And these tactics did not stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall. In fact, social media and the cloak …
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Fitbit Charge 2 heart rate and fitness bracelet. Source: Amazon Google’s $ 2.1 billion offer by fitness tracker maker Fitbit will face a large-scale antitrust investigation in the EU next week, people familiar with the matter said Thursday. Google Alphabet this month offered not to use Fitbit’s health data to …
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“ORour founders would not bow to a king, we should not bow to the emperors of the online economy. “This is how Congressman David Cicilline began the remarkable hearing on Wednesday in the Antitrust Subcommittee, where four tech CEOs: Apple’s Tim Cook Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sundar Pichai of Google …
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While questioning Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook about whether their companies were too powerful and involved in monopolistic practices, members of the Judiciary Chamber subcommittee used various internal documents, including some of the CEOs themselves, to highlight the cases in which companies suffocated, or even threatened, …
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And it was put to the CEOs of Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Facebook (full board) and Google (GOOGL) by Rep. Greg Steube, more than four hours after Wednesday’s five-and-a-half-hour congressional antitrust hearing. The responses were somewhat varied. “I don’t know of specific cases where the government has robbed us,” said …
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