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February 18, 2021

Facebook blocks users from sharing news links in Australia

Facebook wasn't kidding around when it threatened to block Australians from viewing news on the social network. It's now preventing publishers and residents from posting or sharing news content. Facebook users elsewhere can't post or shar…

February 17, 2021

White House turns to Silicon Valley for help with COVID vaccine rollout

The Biden administration is in talks with Amazon and several other Silicon Valley giants to help roll out COVID-19 vaccines across the country. White House spokesperson Kevin Munoz told Politico that officials are “consulting with many companies, inc…

February 13, 2021

Qualcomm has reportedly objected to NVIDIA’s $40 billion acquisition of ARM

According to CNBC, chipmaker Qualcomm has quietly objected to NVIDIA’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of ARM. The company reportedly told the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as well as its regulatory counterparts in the UK, EU and China, it has con…

February 11, 2021

Huawei files lawsuit disputing FCC ‘security threat’ designation

According to The Wall Street Journal, Huawei has filed a lawsuit to challenge a decision the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made last year when it designated the company as a national security threat. The legal challenge comes as the Chinese…

February 11, 2021

TikTok sale to Oracle and Walmart put on ice ‘indefinitely’

TikTok’s December 4th sale deadline came and went with no real response from the outgoing Trump administration, and it appears President Biden isn’t in a rush to finalize the deal. Wall Street Journal sources understand TikTok’s forced sale to Oracle…

February 11, 2021

Facebook experiments with reducing News Feed political content for some

Facebook is taking a new approach to political content: Showing less of it. The company announced today that it will experiment with reducing News Feed entries about politics for a small portion of users in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and…

February 7, 2021

President Biden brings back weekly addresses with a podcast-like format

President Biden is poised to resurrect the weekly radio address, but he’s hoping to keep it relevant through a simple strategy: ditch the radio. As the New York Times explained, the White House has launched a “weekly conversation” series that embrace…

February 5, 2021

Amy Klobuchar is the first politician of the Biden era to take on Big Tech regulations

In what’s likely to go down as the opening salvo of the Biden-era antitrust debate, US Senator Amy Klobuchar will introduce new legislation later today to update the country’s antitrust laws. While we don’t have all the details of the Competition and…

February 5, 2021

President Biden will keep the Space Force as a US military branch

President Biden is expected to roll back many of former President Trump’s decisions, but the creation of the Space Force won’t be one of them. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told Reuters and other attendees at a February 3rd briefing that the…