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Users beware: Apps are using a loophole in privacy law to track kids' phones

Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler says a 1998 law prohibits tech companies from collecting data on kids — but only if the companies know the age of their users.

June 16, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Davies
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City on April 28. Stocks sank on Friday, ending a miserable month for Wall Street.

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Here are 3 reasons why stocks are tanking

Stocks were pummeled on Friday with the Nasdaq slumping more than 4% to post its worst month since 2008. Why things have gotten so bad in Wall Street.

April 29, 2022
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By:
  • David Gura
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks onstage during the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco event in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2019. Benioff is a proponent of stakeholder capitalism, the belief that companies must look out for the broader good.

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  • Business

Why the Salesforce CEO wants to redefine capitalism by pushing for social change

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is an evangelist for stakeholder capitalism — the belief that companies should be driven by more than profits: They should also take care of the broader social good.

October 16, 2021
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By:
  • David Gura
The executive order unveiled Friday includes plans to make it easier for people to fix their phones or other equipment themselves.

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  • Politics

How New Biden Rules Could Make It Easier To Buy Hearing Aids Or Fix Your Phone

In a new executive order, President Biden aims to kickstart competition for consumers, workers and farmers in ways both big and small, starting with a list of 72 initiatives.

July 09, 2021
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By:
  • Asma Khalid and
  • Roberta Rampton
Rep. Ed Setzler

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  • Politics

Ga. Lawmakers, Urged On By Heartland Group, Debate 'Big Tech' Censoring

Acworth Republican state Rep. Ed Setzler hosted a special called meeting of the House Science and Technology Committee Thursday to consider if the state can or should do anything about technology platforms allegedly censoring users’ free speech.

May 21, 2021
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By:
  • Ross Williams
Lina Khan, here at her home in Larchmont, N.Y., in 2017, has been nominated to the Federal Trade Commission.

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  • Technology

Big Tech Showdown Looms As Biden Taps Top Critics Lina Khan, Tim Wu

Federal Trade Commission nominee Lina Khan and presidential adviser Tim Wu have advocated for new rules to curb the power of the tech giants.

March 22, 2021
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Shannon Bond
China's market regulator announced Thursday that it had opened an investigation into the  e-commerce giant, Alibaba, for alleged anticompetitive activities.

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  • Asia

Chinese Regulators Open Investigation Into E-Commerce Giant Alibaba

China's State Administration for Market Regulation is focusing on allegations that Alibaba forces merchants on its website to sell only on its platform.

December 24, 2020
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing in 2019.

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  • Business

48 AGs, FTC Sue Facebook, Alleging Illegal Power Grabs To 'Neutralize' Rivals

The state and federal officials say Facebook's acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram violated competition laws and served to stifle rivals by giving the social network an unfair advantage.

December 10, 2020
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  • Shannon Bond and
  • Bobby Allyn
The Justice Department alleges Google has an illegal monopoly in search, setting up the biggest confrontation with a tech giant in more than 20 years.

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  • Technology

Google Lawsuit Marks End Of Washington's Love Affair With Big Tech

The Justice Department's lawsuit against Google is the clearest sign yet of the "Techlash" that has politicians on both sides of the aisle bristling at the power of Silicon Valley.

October 21, 2020
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  • Shannon Bond
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (from left), Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have been in the spotlight over the market power that their giant companies have.

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  • Technology

How Are Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google Monopolies? House Report Counts The Ways

House Democrats recommend Congress look at ways to force the companies to split off some of their businesses, saying the tech giants have exploited their power to benefit themselves and hurt rivals.

October 06, 2020
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By:
  • Shannon Bond,
  • Alina Selyukh,
  • and 1 more
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Capitol Hill.

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  • Technology

4 Key Takeaways From Washington's Big Tech Hearing On 'Monopoly Power'

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., says Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple operate like monopolies and need to be broken up or regulated.

July 30, 2020
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn and
  • Shannon Bond
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies Wednesday via video before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee. The hearing also featured the heads of Apple, Facebook and Google.

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  • Technology

Heads Of Amazon, Apple, Facebook And Google Testify On Big Tech's Power

The CEOs tell Congress that the giant American tech companies do not stifle competition, saying the concern that too much power is concentrated in too few companies is unfounded.

July 30, 2020
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn,
  • Shannon Bond,
  • and 1 more
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in 1997 (left) and in 2017. He will appear before Congress for the first time this week a much-transformed leader of a much-transformed company.

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  • Business

Bigger And Brawnier: Clout Of Amazon And CEO Jeff Bezos Under Scrutiny

The first congressional testimony by Jeff Bezos comes at a time when he and Amazon are seeming at their zenith, occupying ever-growing space in American culture.

July 29, 2020
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will face congressional questioning about whether tech has too much power.

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  • Technology

Big Tech In Washington's Hot Seat: What You Need To Know

The heads of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple will face lawmakers' questions about whether they are using their power to squash competition.

July 29, 2020
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By:
  • Shannon Bond,
  • Alina Selyukh,
  • and 1 more
From Siri to suggested films on Netflix, artificial intelligence is everywhere.

Friday Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence And Social Media

It's Friday and you know what that means: It's time for On Second Thought's weekly roundtable. Today we gathered three people who work in tech to talk...

July 06, 2018
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott

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