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- ‘Fragmentation is a pain in the ass’: Proliferation of free, ad-supported streaming services causing headaches for media companies
- ‘There is no precedent to this’: How Criteo plans to adapt to Apple’s IDFA privacy update
- ‘Coming to us for ways to do more’: Advertisers look to curated marketplaces to reach underrepresented audiences
- It’s 2020, and CNN and Fox News are still battling over Comscore numbers
- Trump Campaign Freezes Majority of TV Spending, Blames Demotion of Brad Parscale for Need to ‘Review’ Re-Election Strategy
- Secret Jeffrey Epstein Documents Have Been Released by Court Order. Read Them All Right Here.
- Amazon just won a huge FCC approval to launch 3,236 Kuiper internet satellites — a $10 billion project that’d compete with SpaceX’s emerging Starlink network
- ‘Unconscionable’: Bob Costas Rails Against Forcing a College Football Season Amid Pandemic When Players Aren’t Compensated
- Chris Cuomo Slams Trump for Holding Tulsa Rally Attended by Maskless Herman Cain: ‘Sure as Hell Didn’t Help’
- Chris Hayes Calls Unmarked NYPD Arrest of Protester ‘Kidnapping,’ Gets Clap Back From NBC News Police Reporter
- Tucker Carlson Likens Obama to ‘Greasy Politician’ for Using ‘Fake Accent’ and ‘Desecrating’ John Lewis’ Funeral With Partisan Talk About Voting Rights
- Ellen DeGeneres Apologizes to Staff Members as WarnerMedia Investigates Show
- Big Tech’s CEOs wrapped themselves in the flag and warned about China. Here’s why their patriotic appeal was meaningless, misleading, and should be ignored.
- Charles Barkley Defends Choice Not to Participate in Anthem Protests: ‘If People Don’t Kneel, They’re Not a Bad Person’
- 5 reasons why Amazon had record profits in the second quarter even after spending over $4 billion on COVID-related initiatives (AMZN)
- Australia is set to force Google and Facebook to pay for news content
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- Google is ‘reimagining’ work for the post-pandemic era, but losing its famously lavish office perks could pose a big challenge to its culture (GOOGL)
- Google Cloud’s $3 billion quarter shows strong but slowing growth, even as Google reported its first quarterly revenue decline since going public (GOOG, GOOGL)
- Sotomayor Slams Supreme Court’s Conservatives for Increasingly Granting Stays to Like-Minded Petitioners
- WATCH: NBA Players and Personnel Kneel During National Anthem In First Game of Restarted Season
- Trump WH Reportedly Ditched National Testing Plan in April Because Virus Was Only Hitting ‘Blue States’ Hard
- Emails and IMs from the CEOs of Amazon, Facebook and Google show how they think about acquiring companies — and it has little to do with the quality of a startup’s product (AMZN, FB, GOOG)
- Trump Threatens to Deploy National Guard Into Portland if Protests, Unrest Continues: We’ll ‘Clean Out the Beehive of Terrorists’
- ‘The wrath of Mark’: Never-before-seen messages show Instagram’s cofounders felt intimidated by Mark Zuckerberg to sell their company for $1 billion (FB)
- Amazon is actively helping customers cut cloud usage and costs amid the pandemic, CFO Brian Olsavsky explains, as AWS whiffs on revenue expectations (AMZN)
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- Apple says the new iPhone will likely be delayed a few weeks (AAPL)
- WATCH LIVE: Trump Holds News Conference in White House
- ‘People were sick to their stomachs with his fake sincerity’: Frustrated Amazon sellers slam Bezos for claiming his retail platform empowers small businesses
- Apple employees won’t return to the office until early 2021, CEO Tim Cook says (AAPL)
- Short-form video app Triller sues TikTok for patent infringement, alleging the platform is copying its editing feature
- Pentagon Training Materials Will No Longer Refer to Journalists as ‘Adversaries’ (After the Materials Were Exposed by a Journalist)
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- Ford beats on Q2 earnings — and logs 150,000 reservations for its new Bronco SUV (F)
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- The Big 4 tech companies — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, worth $5 trillion combined — just crushed their earnings reports (FB, AMZN, GOOG, AAPL)
- Dan Abrams Torches Trump for Floating Election Delay: He’s Suggesting ‘Pure and Unadulterated Fraud’
- Elon Musk and Bill Gates are sparring over Gates’ criticism of Musk’s coronavirus comments. Here are 10 other rivalries that have formed between some of the world’s biggest tech leaders.
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- Lyft is expanding car rentals across the US as the coronavirus hobbles its core rides business (LYFT)
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- Live: Here come Google and Alphabet’s Q2 earnings (GOOGL)
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- Amazon reports second quarter earnings after the bell (AMZN)
- Trump Tweets Condolences for Herman Cain Minutes After John Lewis Funeral: ‘Herman, Rest In Peace!’
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- LIVE: Facebook announces Q2 2020 earnings (FB)
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- Tech jobs aren’t recovering, and they’re especially down outside tech hubs
- Chairman of House antitrust subcommittee calls for Facebook to be broken up after big tech hearing: ‘classic monopoly behavior’ (FB)
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- WATCH: Obama Thoroughly Condemns Trump Without Naming Him at John Lewis Funeral, Slams Attacks on Peaceful Protesters, Voting Rights
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- CEOs from Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook had to defend their companies against what lawmakers called ‘a pattern of’ monopolistic behavior. Here’s how each was grilled during Wednesday’s landmark hearing. (AMZN, GOOGL, AAPL, FB)
- Conservatives Rebuke Trump’s Proposal To Postpone 2020: ‘No Reason to Delay Our Election, End of Story’
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- Mike Pompeo Grilled About Russian Bounties, Says He’s Raised ‘All Threats’ with Russian Counterpart
- Disney Plus costs $7 a month on its own, but you can bundle it with Hulu and ESPN+ for an extra $6
- Chinese Navy Installs Generators to Power Rail Guns, Energy Weapons
- WATCH: Pompeo Refuses to Say If Trump Can Move Election Date, Says AG Barr Will Determine
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- Full D.C. Circuit Court Agrees to Rehear Michael Flynn Case
- Trump Comment on Moving Election a ‘Flagrant Expression of His Weakness’: Fox’s Chris Stirewalt
- Newly surfaced emails show how ruthlessly Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google built their businesses and ate up smaller companies
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had to be told to unmute his microphone to answer a question during the big tech antitrust hearing (AMZN)
- CNN’s Jim Sciutto Rips Trump For ‘Undermining the Results in Advance’ With His ‘Delay the Election’ Tweets
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- Trump Tweets Touting Long Island Pizza Shop — But Silent On Former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain’s Death
- How a clothing reseller used TikTok to double her sales to over $7,000 per month on the social shopping app Depop
- Remember When Team Trump Lashed Out at Biden for Predicting Trump Would Try to Delay the Election?
- Former WH Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Says Herman Cain Death ‘A Reminder’ to ‘Take Corona Seriously’, Wear a Mask
- China Allegedly Hacked the Vatican, Other Catholic Computer Systems
- NFL player Bobby Wagner is joining a VC firm alongside former Amazon and Microsoft executives
- Henrik Fisker has $1 billion and a master plan for 4 new electric vehicles — including a pickup truck to rival Tesla, GM, and Ford
- Fox News’ John Roberts Claims Herman Cain Couldn’t Have Had Coronavirus at Trump Tulsa Rally: ‘Something Happened Between Then and the 29th’
- How to share files on Google Drive in 3 different ways, and choose who can view, comment, or edit
- Twitter Justifies Allowing Iran to Threaten Genocide: ‘Commentary on Political Issues of the Day’
- Poll Shows Media Has Lost Most Approval During Pandemic, Second Only to Airlines
- TikTok is transforming the influencer rulebook — we spoke to the viral video-makers about mastering its elusive algorithm and why they prefer it to Instagram
- Twitter Blue Checks Blame Trump for Herman Cain’s Death of Coronavirus Minutes After News Breaks
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- WATCH: Fox Business’ Stuart Varney Takes Trump Suggestion of an Election Delay Seriously, Weighs Merits
- Journalists and Media Figures React with Alarm to Trump’s ‘Deadly Serious’ Election Delay Tweet
- WATCH LIVE: John Lewis Funeral Service in Atlanta
- Pro-Trump Demon Sperm Doctor Temporary Suspended From Twitter Over Hydroxychloroquine Video
- How to add and remove titles from your Hulu watchlist or My Stuff section — or import your watchlist
- BREAKING: Herman Cain Dead at Age 74 After Battling Coronavirus
- The CEO of popular tech hiring site HackerRank says demand has surged for app developers, data scientists and interns as companies like Morgan Stanley, Riot Games or John Deere look to ‘improve their online presence, or risk losing out’
- Where was Microsoft? Antitrust experts explain why they think the company managed to avoid testifying alongside Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook in this week’s Big Tech hearing (MSFT)
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- Huawei shipped more smartphones than any other company last quarter — making it the first to dethrone Apple and Samsung in 9 years (AAPL)
- U.S. GDP Suffers Worst Recorded Drop In American History
- Trump Calls Mail-In Voting a ‘Catastrophic Disaster’ Susceptible to Foreign Influence; Suggests Postponing 2020 Election
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- NASA Blasts Off Most Sophisticated Mars Mission in Human History
- BREAKING: Trump Suggests Delaying the 2020 Election
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- Nintendo’s Switch remains sold out everywhere as the pandemic stretches on — and there’s no end in sight (NTDOY)
- How to use Google Chat to message friends and colleagues right from your Gmail inbox
- Unmarried ‘sweethearts’ separated by borders are turning to social media campaigns and petitions to reduce travel bans preventing couples from reuniting
- Now we know what Jeff Bezos’ worried face looks like
- Rev. Sharpton Rips Trump for ‘Despicable’ Segregationist Messaging While ‘We’re Mourning John Lewis’
- Columbia Doc Predicts Up to 800,000 US Virus Deaths in 2020, Blames ‘Extraordinarily Irresponsible’ Trump for Politicizing Masks
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- Tim Cook defended the App Store’s policies in Big Tech’s blockbuster hearing, just as developers are piling on accusing Apple of abusing its power
- Subscription newsletter platform Substack has doubled its users as COVID-19 jeopardizes the ad-based media model
- IBM is on the hunt for a massive Manhattan space, showing that worries about the death of the big-city office may be overblown
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- Check out the pitch deck German automation startup CANDIS used to raise $14 million entirely over Zoom
- NASA’s Perseverance rover has lifted off and begun its 7-month journey to Mars — but the launch is not over yet
- CNN’s Berman Derides Louie Gohmert’s Coronavirus Diagnosis: ‘Speaks Volumes’ After He ‘Proudly’ Defied Science, Mask-Wearing
- John Lewis Calls For National Redemption in Posthumous NY Times Op-Ed
- These 3 moments from Big Tech’s blockbuster antitrust hearing could come back to haunt the companies, according to Wall Street analysts
- Walmart takes aim at Amazon with a new measurement tool for advertisers
- TikTok plans to hand up to $300 million to European creators, as Facebook reportedly tries to lure away high-profile users with cash
- Joe Scarborough Questions Trump’s Hydroxychloroquine Obsession: ‘You Have to Ask, What’s the Money Connection?’
- Europe wants to investigate Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, hot off CEO Sundar Pichai’s congressional grilling
- ‘This Is a New Phase’: Europe Shifts Tactics to Limit Tech’s Power
- Here’s the pitch deck workforce training startup EduMe used to persuade a Silicon Valley backer who had never invested in Europe to lead a $5 million round
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- ‘Exceeded our marketers readiness’: As e-commerce growth accelerates, Dentsu is adding a new practice to meet the demand
- Digiday Research: 41% of agency buyers say they will resume Facebook spending at the end of July
- Investments in journalism, algorithms has Axel Springer’s five-year-old aggregator app Upday up over 30% in ad revenue
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- America wanted its first unfiltered look at Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person. The Amazon CEO used caution and skill to stay out of the spotlight. (AMZN)
- Internet connections were briefly down across the country for Spectrum customers
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