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CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia will next week introduce landmark legislation to force Alphabet’s Google and Facebook to pay publishers and broadcasters for content, a senior government official said on Friday. The legislation, which Google says will be “unworkable”, will make Australia the first country to require Facebook and Google to pay for news content. “The bill will now be considered by the parliament from the week commencing 15 February 2021,” Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said… Source link

SYDNEY — A showdown between the Australian government and Google is approaching a conclusion, with the outcome likely to have effects across the globe. In December, the government became the first in the world to introduce legislation that would force tech giants to pay local news outlets for featuring and linking to their stories. Google balked, warning that the proposed news media bargaining code would “break a fundamental principle of how the web works” and threatened to pull its… Source link

Bloomberg Hyundai, Kia Say Not in Car Development Talks With Apple (Bloomberg) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said that they aren’t in discussions with Apple Inc. on cooperating to develop a self-driving electric vehicle, following reports and speculation that they were working with the tech giant.The South Korean carmakers have been talking with multiple companies about autonomous electric car development, but no decision has been made, they said in regulatory… Source link

Reuters Nearly all victims of Mexican massacre confirmed as Guatemalans Mexico has identified nine more Guatemalan victims who were among the 19 people killed in a massacre in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas last month, authorities said on Saturday. So far 16 of the victims have been identified, including two Mexican nationals and 14 Guatemalans, the prosecutor’s office of the state of Tamaulipas said in a statement. The bodies, some badly charred and with gunshot wounds, were found… Source link

Mel Silva, the managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand, appears via a video link during a Senate inquiry Jan. 22 into a mandatory code of conduct proposed by the Australian government. (AP) CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian prime minister said he had a “constructive” meeting on Thursday with the head of Google after the tech giant threatened to remove its search engine from Australia over plans to make digital platforms pay for news. Prime Minister Scott Morrison… Source link

TipRanks The 5G Revolution Could Send These 3 Stocks Higher We’ve got a full month of 2021 behind us now, and a few trends are coming clearer. The coronavirus crisis may still be with us, but as vaccination programs expand, the end is in sight. With President Trump out of the picture, and the Democrats holding both Houses of Congress and the White House, politics is looking more predictable. And both of those developments bode well for an economic recovery this year. Looking back, at the… Source link

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TipRanks The 5G Revolution Could Send These 3 Stocks Higher We’ve got a full month of 2021 behind us now, and a few trends are coming clearer. The coronavirus crisis may still be with us, but as vaccination programs expand, the end is in sight. With President Trump out of the picture, and the Democrats holding both Houses of Congress and the White House, politics is looking more predictable. And both of those developments bode well for an economic recovery this year. Looking back, at the… Source link

TipRanks The 5G Revolution Could Send These 3 Stocks Higher We’ve got a full month of 2021 behind us now, and a few trends are coming clearer. The coronavirus crisis may still be with us, but as vaccination programs expand, the end is in sight. With President Trump out of the picture, and the Democrats holding both Houses of Congress and the White House, politics is looking more predictable. And both of those developments bode well for an economic recovery this year. Looking back, at the… Source link