Report details how Google and Facebook harm local communities by siphoning resources from local businesses, undermining local news, distorting local democracy — Since 2016, commentators across a swath of disciplines have pointed to Google and Facebook as consequential and harmful actors in the global political and social order.
Consumer groups and privacy activists in the EU are increasingly turning to courts, rather than regulators, for speedier resolution of their GDPR complaints — With regulators faltering, privacy activists are turning to the courts to get the rules enforced. — Forget regulators.
A leading antitrust scholar says Google's ad marketplace should be regulated as it both runs the market and competes as its biggest buyer and seller — A leading antitrust scholar says yes. Congress may be listening. — The days of suit-clad men shouting out orders on the bustling floors …
At least half a dozen startup founders from non-Western markets say YC's fully remote S20 Demo Day put them on a more equal footing with their US counterparts — With its first fully remote Demo Day, the famed startup accelerator has gone global. — • BANGALORE, INDIA
Sources: Apple is building ~75M 5G iPhones for later this year, along with two new Apple Watch versions, iPad Air with edge-to-edge screen, and smaller HomePod — - Headphones, new Watch models, iPad Air, smaller HomePod coming — Supply chain, consumer interest hold up in pandemic, recession