- Fox News Scores Big Daytime Ratings on Wednesday with Bill Barr Hearing Coverage, Sweeps Total Day and Primetime
- Newly-released emails reveal how Google hoped to pay $50 million for YouTube in 2006, and why it ended up paying $1.65 billion (GOOG)
- As live sports roar back onto screens, brands capture a social-media lift
- Emails show how Amazon’s $1 billion Ring acquisition was driven by Jeff Bezos’ interest in its ‘market position – not technology’ (AMZN)
- Emails released as part of Congress’ antitrust hearing show how ruthless Steve Jobs could be (AAPL)
- Mark Zuckerberg wrote to his top lieutenants about the benefits of ‘cloning’ rivals after meeting with Chinese entrepreneurs in 2012 — read the full memo (FB)
- ‘A Man Possessed’: Anderson Cooper Rips Trump for Continuing to Defend Doc Pushing Hydroxychloroquine and ‘Demon Sex’
- Tucker Carlson to Jim Jordan: What Actual Consequences Will Republicans Get Big Tech Companies to Face?
- Fmr CDC Official Criticizes Trump TX Event Over Lack of Social Distancing, Masks: ‘Depressing, Distressing, and… Dumb’
- Michi-gone? Trump Campaign Reportedly Giving Up on Buying Ads in Key Swing State
- Ashley Judd Can Sue Harvey Weinstein for Sexual Harassment, Court Rules
- Big venture capital firms benefited most from a record fundraising pace in the first half of 2020, but smaller VC firms may face a tough second half, a Silicon Valley Bank report says
- Federal Judge Postpones Unsealing of Some Jeffrey Epstein Documents After ‘Eleventh-Hour’ Request from Ghislaine Maxwell
- Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders
- House Dem Mocks GOP’s ‘Obsessive Persecution Complex’ During Tech Hearing, Notes Right-Wing Media Dominates Top Facebook Posts
- If you’ve ever wondered how a startup founder mulls a giant acquisition offer, read all of the texts between Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom and one of his investors after Mark Zuckerberg first approached them (FB)
- New text messages show Kevin Systrom worried about Mark Zuckerberg going into ‘destroy mode’ if he didn’t sell to Facebook (FB)
- House GOP Memo Encouraged Members to Defend Tech Behemoths Google and Facebook Against Antitrust Claims
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said social media is a ‘nuance-destruction machine’ when asked about his views on ‘cancel culture’
- Jeff Bezos crumples under pressure on whether Amazon will continue to block customer donations to SPLC-designated extremist groups, saying it’s an ‘imperfect system’ (AMZN)
- Trump Accuses Fox News of ‘Bad Reporting’ on Portland Following Agreement Between Feds and Oregon Governor
- Nicolle Wallace Chokes Up During Emotional Tribute to 9-Year-Old Girl, Baltimore Doctor Who Died of Covid
- Pelosi Reportedly Plans to Announce Masks Now Mandatory on House Floor
- NASA stowed the first interplanetary helicopter in the belly of its Mars rover — a ‘magic trick’ that could return unprecedented video
- 10-year-old killed in crash with Amazon delivery van in Bay Area (AMZN)
- Mark Zuckerberg was grilled over whether Facebook copied and threatened rivals, but the CEO says the social media giant just ‘adapted features’ (FB)
- Wild Fights, Bizarre Tangents, and Constant Interruptions: Here Are The 5 Most Ridiculous Moments From House Judiciary’s Two Days of Insane Hearings
- WATCH: JetBlue’s New Robot Rolls Down Plane Aisles, Shining UV Lights on Seats to Kill Coronavirus
- Jake Tapper Calls Out Trump Comments About Alleged Russian Bounties: He’s Literally Using a ‘Kremlin Talking Point’
- Official Guidance From Defense Secretary, Pentagon Characterizes Protestors and Journalists as ‘Adversaries’
- Google’s high exposure to COVID-19 ‘weak spots’ will test its recession-proof search business like never before (GOOG, GOOGL)
- Mark Zuckerberg told Congress that Facebook is not a monopoly. But in 2012, it boasted that it held ‘95% of all social media in the US.’ (FB)
- How to block a number on any Android phone to stop receiving unwanted calls
- Lucid Motors CEO says his debut electric sedan will cost over $100,000 and outmatch Tesla and Porsche with a spacious, luxurious interior
- FIREWORKS: House Hearing Explodes After Dem Rep. Calls Out Jim Jordan for ‘Fringe Conspiracy Theories’ About Google
- ‘Put your mask on!’: Lawmakers erupt after Jim Jordan throws a temper tantrum during the big tech hearing
- Jeff Bezos says he can’t guarantee Amazon’s policy against using seller data to dictate its private-label business has never been violated (AMZN)
- ‘This is Kind of a Disaster’: CNN Anchor Torches House Committee for Going ‘Nowhere Fast’ in Big Tech Hearing
- Marine Corps Bans Service Members From Mining Bitcoin on Military Devices
- Snap releases diversity report for the first time in its history, shows Black and Latinx employees comprise 10.9% of staff (SNAP)
- No One Asked Jeff Bezos a Question in the First Session of the House Tech Hearing, and Twitter Noticed: He’ll Get ‘A Prime Delivery’ Before He Gets a Question
- Mark Zuckerberg kicked off his testimony during the big tech antitrust hearing by suggesting Apple, Amazon, Google, and TikTok may be bigger threats than Facebook (FB)
- Purdue Pharma Judge Throttles ‘Misinformed,’ ‘Numbskull’ New York Times Opinion Writers
- New disinformation campaign resembles 2016 Russian election meddling — but is much more sophisticated, FireEye says in new report (FEYE)
- Amazon Web Services is moving its annual re:Invent cloud conference online and making it free (AMZN)
- Mark Zuckerberg viewed Instagram as a threat that could hurt Facebook’s business before buying it, internal emails show (FB)
- Google’s Sundar Pichai was immediately pounced on in the first question of the antitrust hearing, asking the CEO why Google steals content (GOOG, GOOGL)
- Meet two of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires, the Irish brothers who founded payment app Stripe and went on to land a $600 million VC megadeal during the pandemic
- Rep. Sensenbrenner Confronts Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on Restricting Don Jr’s Account … Except That Was Twitter, Not Facebook
- Here’s how vendors like HPE, Dell, and Lenovo are trying to change their data center businesses to keep up with the rise of cloud computing by allowing customers to rent hardware and pay only for how much they use it (DELL, HPE)
- Rep. Louie Gohmert Blames Masks in Absurd Explanation for His Covid Diagnosis: I Might Have Put ‘Some of the Virus Onto the Mask and Breathed it in’
- WATCH: House Tech Hearing Derails Right Out of the Gate as Democrats Shout Down Jim Jordan, Block Rep. Johnson from Participating
- On Tomorrow’s Launch, NASA Is Sending Spacesuit Chunks to Mars
- Engineers Built “Giant Atoms” That Enhance Quantum Computers
- The US is neck-deep in a constitutional crisis
- Every Woman Has a Chris Dodd — A Man Whose Reported, Petty Grudge Imperils Kamala Harris’ Shot at Being Vice President
- Here are 22 of the most important executives leading Google Cloud as it takes on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure (GOOG, GOOGL)
- A Dead Star Gave Off Something Scientists Have Never Seen Before
- Trump says he’ll ‘bring fairness’ to Big Tech via an executive order if Congress doesn’t take action
- ‘We are not the enemy’: TikTok CEO slams Facebook for attacking the Chinese company and launching ‘copycat’ product
- Facebook, Google, and the US government all have their own reasons to make you believe that TikTok is unsafe and scary — and they’re all self-serving
- The US Treasury is investigating TikTok over national security concerns, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says
- These Stunning Infographics and Charts Turn Science Facts into Cannabis Art
- Trump Axes Obama-Era Fair Housing Rule, Saying Suburbanites Will ‘No Longer Be Bothered’ by ‘Low Income’ People, Crime
- Soundtrap by Spotify Lets You Record, Edit, and Collaborate With Anyone, Anywhere
- Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites photobombed Comet Neowise in a photographer’s striking image
- Alexis Ohanian is rethinking how he invests in early companies after stepping down from Reddit’s board
- Why Alexis Ohanian decided to back Ro, a $1.5 billion healthcare startup that got its start shipping Viagra to your door, when it had just a founding team and a pitch deck
- Dr. Fauci, in First MSNBC Hit Since April, Nukes Trump-Promoted Conspiracy Video: ‘Bunch of People Spouting Something That Isn’t True’
- NASA is launching its $2.4 billion Perseverance Mars rover on Thursday. The nuclear-powered robot will test technologies astronauts need on the red planet.
- NASA Venus Rover Designed For “Exploring Hell”
- GM will unveil the revived, electric Hummer pickup this fall — and promises the world’s first ‘super truck’ (GM)
- Jeff Bezos is about to defend his Amazon empire before Congress. Here’s how the richest person in the world makes and spends his $178 billion fortune.
- Trump Thrashes Biden 3-1 Among Obama Voters: Zogby
- Fox News’ Howard Kurtz Accuses ‘Trump-Obsessed’ Media of ‘Greatly Downplaying’ Rioter Violence
- Michigan B&B Removes Norwegian Flag After Receiving Abuse Mistaking It For Confederate Flag
- DARPA Deploys Tiny Satellite That Could Take Best Pictures of Space Ever
- The Media Continues Anti-Science, Fear-Based Coverage of Hydroxychloroquine
- Walmart is pushing harder into advertising with a new tool that shows if people buy a product after seeing an ad for it
- WATCH: Stunning Footage in Aftermath of Train Derailment on Bridge in Arizona
- Volkswagen CEO says Tesla’s meteoric rise proves the most valuable company in the world will be in mobility (TSLA, VW)
- WATCH LIVE: Top Tech CEOs Zuckerberg, Bezos, Cook, Pichai Testify Before Congress
- How men and women’s salaries compare at Facebook, Google, Apple, and other top tech companies
- These Scientists Are Testing an Experimental COVID Vaccine on Themselves
- How to watch the NHL when the Stanley Cup Playoffs begin on August 1
- Nine mistakes to avoid when contacting websites for backlinks
- ‘That’s a Cop Out’: Fox Business Anchor Scolds Hogan Gidley for Swatting Down Network’s ‘Junk’ Polls Showing Trump Losing
- 15 YouTube stars reveal the most money they’ve made from a single video
- Meet the 19 enterprise technology startups that raised money during the coronavirus crisis
- Apple’s big new Mac update may have accidentally revealed that Face ID is coming to Apple’s laptops and desktops (AAPL)
- Trump Claims Colin Powell Comment on Media Hysteria is Evidence Russia Didn’t Target American Troops
- The best speakers with Google Chromecast built-in
- Trump Blasts CNN, Defends Quack Doctor Promoting Hydroxychloroquine: ‘Your Network is So Dishonest’
- WATCH LIVE: Lawmakers to question the CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon (AAPL, GOOG, FB, AMZN)
- Short-form video app Triller has hired 18-year-old TikTok star Josh Richards as its chief strategy officer and an investor says it’s looking to raise $250 million in new funding
- 4 Tech CEOs, $4.8 trillion in market value, and a mob of hungry politicians: it’s showtime!
- Steve Mnuchin Says Democrats, Republicans ‘Very Far Apart’ From Reaching Coronavirus Aid Deal
- WATCH: Trump Says Kamala Harris Would Be ‘A Fine Choice’ As Joe Biden’s Running Mate
- How to Fight Against Big Tech’s Power
- JUST IN: Rep. Louie Gohmert Reportedly Tests Positive For Covid-19 Day After Barr Hearing
- WATCH: LA Dodgers Pitcher Sparks Bench Clearing Fracas and Goes Viral for Hilarious Taunt of a Houston Astros Player
- A renowned 85-year-old VC is teaming up with a former Soul Cycle exec to back startups taking on an underserved trillion-dollar global sector
- Jimmy Fallon and Trevor Noah Roast the Return of ‘Scary Misinformation Trump’: ‘Even Flat Earthers Think This Guy is Out of His Mind’
- WATCH: Peter Navarro Attacks Dr. Fauci and Pushes Hydroxychloroquine in Wild 19-Minute Slugfest With John Berman on CNN
- Fox & Friends, GOP Senator Tim Scott Slam House Dems Over Barr Hearing Spectacle: ‘Rudeness Defined’
- Wednesday’s big tech antitrust hearing has echoes of Bill Gates’ and Microsoft’s landmark court battle 22 years ago. Here’s why the government scrutinized Gates and how it played out for the company. (MSFT)
- CNN’s John Berman Shuts Down Navarro Saying ‘China Virus’: Asian Americans ‘Have Told us They Have Become the Source of Crimes’
- Shocked Journalists React to ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Trump-Putin Bounty Revelation: ‘What Does He Have on You?’
- GM beats Wall Street expectations for Q2 earnings even as coronavirus hits revenue hard (GM)
- Alisyn Camerota Ridicules ‘William Pelham Barr’ Over ‘Willful Blindness’ to Systemic Racism
- The 31 top power players helping CEO Evan Spiegel run Snap
- ‘Moonshot’ startups to get a boost from new Apollo fund founded by former Y Combinator president Sam Altman and his 2 brothers
- Amazon has started free grocery deliveries to some Prime members in the UK. The boss of British grocer Waitrose called it a ‘nuclear’ option in the battle for online shopping supremacy.
- Trump Reveals He Hasn’t Discussed Bounties With Vladimir Putin Before Dismisses Reports as ‘Fake News’
- Boeing wrote a step-by-step guide for starting a new airline. Here’s what it wants potential founders — and customers — to know. (BA)
- Russia has been publishing English-language articles to spread COVID-19 disinformation to Americans, US officials said. It could skew the 2020 elections as it did in 2016.
- Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie has donated $1.7 billion of her wealth since their divorce, and taken a new last name
- ‘Kidnapping’: Outrage Grows Over Viral Video Showing NYPD Officers Dragging Protestor Into Unmarked Van
- An EU bank tweeted out the N-word after a hacker took over its account, weeks after Twitter’s giant hack
- Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon C.E.O.s Are Testifying Before Congress. Here’s What to Know.
- Money transfer unicorn TransferWise is now worth $5 billion after some employees and early investors cashed out
- Fit Seniors? – Here’s How To Stay Fit In Old Age
- ‘It’s a significant change’: Twitter’s Mopub weighs in-app ad growth plan amid Apple’s upcoming privacy update
- ‘The audience is still there’: How U.K. sports outlets pivoted to branded content, social video to keep fans engaged as seasons were delayed
- ‘Contextual on steroids’: How Insider is tracking and scaling audience behavior using first-party data
- TV networks begin to signal willingness to prioritize streaming over linear
- U.K. entertainment title Digital Spy looks to use Apple News+ to boost global reach
- ‘Hooked on the Facebook drug’: Media buyers say smaller brands will return to the platform, but bigger brands will continue to boycott
- Publishers prep for back-to- school bump as traditional shopping models and items shift due to uncertain return this fall
- Deep Dive: How to master Amazon advertising in the new normal
- Anderson Cooper Skewers ‘Snake Oil Salesman’ Trump for Pushing Covid Conspiracies, Fleeing WH Briefing When Called Out for It
- Peter Thiel, Trump’s biggest supporter in Silicon Valley, is reportedly pumping nearly $1 million into a US Senate race in Kansas as he seeks new allies in Congress
- Elon Musk says Tesla doesn’t want to crush rivals, and the company is open to licensing its self-driving software and battery technology (TSLA)
- Pelosi Calls Barr ‘Despicable’ Over Hearing: ‘He Was Like a Blob… a Henchman for the President’
- Apple CEO Tim Cook releases opening statement ahead of historic congressional antitrust hearing: ‘We make no concession on the facts’
- Photographer Captures Joe Biden’s Speech Notes on Potential VP Pick Kamala Harris: ‘Do NOT Hold Grudges,’ ‘Talented,’ ‘Great Respect for Her’
- Tucker Carlson on Sites Pulling Covid Video Trump Shared: ‘Enraged’ Dems Want to Keep People Scared So Biden Wins
- Sundar Pichai will tell Congress that Google’s search and advertising business faces plenty of competition, and that its free products benefit the ‘average American.’ Read his prepared remarks in full (GOOG, GOOGL)
- House Democrat Condemns AG Barr’s Testimony About Sweeping DC Protestors for Trump Photo Op: ‘He Not Only Lied… He Did a Backflip’
- READ: Jeff Bezos’ Opening Statement to Congress for Antitrust Hearing
- Jeff Bezos will tell Congress that Amazon’s size is a good thing, and that it faces plenty of competition from rivals like Walmart: ‘Just like the world needs small companies, it also needs large ones’ (AMZN)
- Fox News’ MacCallum Confronts Swalwell: Dems Wouldn’t Let Barr Answer Questions, ‘That Was Not a Hearing!’
- Amazon said it would spend all $4 billion of its Q2 profits on COVID-19 responses. Wall Street still expects a profitable quarter. (AMZN)
- Cybersecurity experts warn that it may take weeks or months after the presidential election for a winner to be decided, thanks to the threats of security issues and litigation around the results (MSFT, GOOG)
- Apple’s iPhone 12 is in a battle with the coronavirus. On Thursday, Apple will give a big clue about who won. (AAPL)
- Universal’s Theatrical Releases Will Quickly Be Available in Homes
- Jake Tapper Calls Out Rep. Jim Jordan, Demands Apology for Deceptive Clips of Media Protest Coverage: ‘You Did a Disservice to the Truth’
- Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online
- Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Continue Unprecedented Dominance of Cable, Sweeping the Top Three Spots Respectively in July A25-54 Ratings
- WATCH: Trump Dodges, Then Abruptly Ends Briefing After CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Confronts Him on Covid-19 Conspiracy Theorist He Retweeted
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