Do you hear that? Oh, it’s nothing. Just the rumblings of CHANGE.
Amazon may end a third-party vendor policy that prohibits merchants from selling their wares at lower prices outside of Amazon Marketplace, according to a new report from Axios. The ne…
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Apple isn’t safe from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Tech
Tim Cook, Elizabeth Warren is coming for you.
Speaking to The Verge at SXSW, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate made it ultra clear: just because she didn’t explicitly mention Apple in her policy proposal to break up the big tech companies doesn’t mean it’s safe from her scrutiny.
Under an Elizabeth Warren administration, Apple would be broken up, too.
“Apple, you’ve got to break it apart from their App Store,” said Warren, speaking to editor-in-chief of The Verge, Nilay Patel. “It’s got to be one or the other. Either they run the platform or they play in the store. They don’t get to do both at the same time.” Read more…
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View More Apple isn’t safe from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big TechElizabeth Warren is coming after AmazonBasics. Why Amazon shouldn’t fight it.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Amazon did the right thing?
On Friday, senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren unveiled her plans to break up Big Tech, including Amazon. Much of her to-do list includes disallowing tech giants that own a marketplace …
FTC creates antitrust task force to monitor tech industry
The field of technology and the business practices within it tend to advance faster than regulators can keep up. But the FTC is making a concerted effort with a new 17-lawyer tech task force dedicated to ensuring “free and fair competition” and watching for anticompetitive conduct among technology companies.
View More FTC creates antitrust task force to monitor tech industryFacebook is combining Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp infrastructure into one, report says
Facebook’s tentacles are starting to look more and more alike.
A new report from the New York Times says that Facebook is integrating all of its messaging platforms — Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — into the same infrastructure. The services would remain distinct, but the back-end connections between the three apps would grow into one master messaging platform.
It would also add end-to-end encryption to all of the services — something that is already standard on WhatsApp — which would mean increased privacy and security for DMs over Instagram and Facebook Messenger. Read more…
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View More Facebook is combining Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp infrastructure into one, report saysThe best board game deals for the ‘Game of Thrones’ fanatic
Game of Thrones is popular, to put it lightly. Some fans as so enamoured by the world created by George R.R. Martin that they want to fill their world with branded merch. Those fanatics are in luck, too, because nowadays there is a Game of Thro…
View More The best board game deals for the ‘Game of Thrones’ fanaticApple antitrust lawsuit heads to the Supreme Court
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The future of Apple’s App Store may be in the U.S. Supreme Court’s hands.
On Monday, U.S. Supreme Court justices are presiding over a case that will determine if Apple has been monopolizing the iPhone app market through its App Store. At the heart of the issue is whether the tech giant’s App Store practices have forced consumers to overpay for iOS apps.
In 2011, iPhone users filed a class-action lawsuit in California federal court alleging that Apple’s monopoly over the iPhone app market with the App Store, which is the only official source for iOS applications, has led to marked-up prices. Read more…
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View More Apple antitrust lawsuit heads to the Supreme CourtNew ‘Monopoly: Game of Thrones’ edition plays the theme song while you monopolize
There’s a new version of Monopoly for Game of Thrones fans and this time it plays music.
The second edition of Monopoly: Game of Thrones is coming in January 2019 to make Game of Thrones fans angrier at each other than the television show ever could….
Mark Zuckerberg subtly made a case for not breaking up Facebook
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It’s not hard to understand why Mark Zuckerberg loves the empire-consolidating Augustus Caesar.
The 3,300 word note Mark Zuckerberg published Thursday about Facebook’s approach to election interference contained some surprisingly frank insight into why Facebook has made some of the business decisions that it has. For example, Zuckerberg shared that he considered banning political ads all together (but decided against it). And that he was only opening up the platform to certain researchers because Facebook is now wary of misuse; thanks, Aleksandr Kogan!
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‘Monopoly: Fortnite Edition’ trades gun battles for cutthroat real estate
Finally, a way to experience Fortnite from the safety of the great offline.
Monopoly: Fortnite Edition combines the world of Fortnite: Battle Royale and the classic board game Monopoly for a new take on an old favorite, landing in stores beginning Oc…
Blue shell your friends to bankruptcy in Mario Kart-themed ‘Monopoly’
The only thing that could make Monopoly more anger-inducing is the inclusion of blue shells, yet here we are.
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‘Monopoly: Cheaters Edition’ was made for all you con artists out there
Sometimes Monopoly gets frustrating and you can’t help but take part in a little bit of cheating to get ahead. Of course, that’s against the rules and can result in some pretty vicious arguments.
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