Month: July 2020

The US Ambassador to Brazil has warned the country would face severe consequences should it allow Huawei to supply equipment to 5G networks. While the focus in recent years has been on European allies, the US has now seemingly turned attention to the LATAM markets. Not content on extinguishing the Huawei presence in Europe alone,
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The announcement came on the last Sunday of 2019. “I have been in some kind of fight—for freedom, equality, basic human rights—for nearly my entire life,” John Lewis said on December 29, revealing his stage IV pancreatic cancer diagnosis. “I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now.”
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July 30, 2020, 3:54pm If you tuned into yesterday’s historic House Judiciary Subcommittee antitrust hearing, during which the top executives of some of the world’s largest tech companies tried convincing politicians that they weren’t monopolies, you may have heard a bookseller chime in during Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s questioning. Unfortunately for companies like Google, Amazon,
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We’re now over two months into the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement globally. By and large the media has stopped reporting on the marches and protests across North America with the same frequency and urgency as they were two months ago, but they’re still happening and they still matter. And while the spotlight
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Showtime Greenlights second season of VICE On the heels of picking up an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, Showtime has elected to greenlight a second season of the award-winning documentary series VICE, which originally ran for six seasons on fellow cabler HBO. RELATED: Mob Showtime Series in Development From Brian Grazer, Terence Winter
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Following Rakuten and Spotify, messaging service Telegram has filed a complaint with the European Commission regarding Apple’s App Store. The antirust complaint is along the same line which we have seen elsewhere; the 30% commission is too much, while preventing iPhone users from downloading apps from alternative channels is anticompetitive. The official complaint against Apple
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A couple days before the New Orleans Pelicans traveled down to the NBA’s bubble, Zion Williamson and Jeff Bzdelik were chatting after a practice. The 67-year-old associate head coach told the superstar rookie that he wouldn’t be joining the team in Florida. Instead Bzdelik, one of the NBA’s most experienced and respected teachers, would fly
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