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This photograph taken on September 28, 2017, shows a smartphone being operated in front of GAFA logos (acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon web giants) as background in Hédé-Bazouges, western France. Damien Meyer | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s antitrust watchdog threatened on Tuesday to impose heavy fines on big tech companies if they fall foul of new competition rules. Google, Facebook and other firms of “strategic market status” could face fines of up to 10% of their… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. LONDON — Britain plans to create a new watchdog to police Big Tech companies including Google and Facebook to counter their market dominance and prevent them from exploiting consumers and small businesses. The U.K. government said Friday that it’s setting up a “Digital Markets Unit” next year to enforce a new code of conduct governing the behavior of tech giants that dominate the online advertising… Source link

TipRanks Bull Moves: Analysts Just Upgraded These 3 Hot Stocks The world’s largest asset manager is impressed with the market’s recent gains, and it has made that sentiment clear by upgrading US stocks. In its recent reassessment of conditions in the American financial markets, investment giant BlackRock issued a general upgrade for Wall Street. This wasn’t an upgrade on particular stocks, but on the US market as a whole.Explaining the move, the BlackRock note points out that the daily… Source link

CANTON, Ga. — In the high stakes runoff election for two U.S. Senate seats that will decide which party controls the chamber under President-elect Joe Biden, incumbent Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are looking to bring in big GOP names to stump alongside them, while Democrats are choosing to keep things local. On Friday, Loeffler and Perdue were joined by Vice President Mike Pence in Canton, Ga., to a raucous outdoor crowd of more than 1,000 supporters. While Pence… Source link

Russell Wilson got some much-needed help in the kitchen. Letting Russ cook this season was the right move by the Seattle Seahawks, but the last couple weeks, he looked like a player who was putting everything on his shoulders. He had good reason. Due to injuries, Seattle had no reliable run game, and the Seahawks defense has been bad all year. On Thursday night, the Seahawks looked like a team, and not just a quarterback trying to make up for countless deficiencies. Seattle ran the ball well…. Source link

After a five-month delay, the NBA draft finally happened Wednesday night, and with it came some surprises — good and bad. The Minnesota Timberwolves ended up drafting Anthony Edwards despite him saying he’s “not really into basketball” earlier this week, while the Golden State Warriors drafted James Wiseman with questions surrounding Klay Thompson’s health after he suffered a lower leg injury. We take a look at the winners and losers of the 2020 NBA draft. WINNERS Florida State coach… Source link

The dynasty had crumbled, seemingly all at once. Kevin Durant blew an Achilles in Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals. Klay Thompson tore an ACL three nights later in Game 6. By the time Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors celebrated an NBA championship in the last game ever played at Oracle Arena, it felt more like the end (or at least a pause) of an epic era. Everyone suspected KD would soon leave via free agency. They knew Klay was headed to a year of rehab. When the 2019-20 season finally… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Insiders Are Snapping Up President John Kennedy famously said, once, “A rising tide lifts all boats,” and this is true in the stock markets, too. We’re in the midst, now, of just such a rising tide – at least for the short term. The main indexes, the Dow, the S&P, and the NASDAQ, are all up between 9% and 12.5% this month, and the trends are positive. The recent election, making clear the prospect of a divided government unlikely to pass radical… Source link

Throughout his campaign to win the White House, President-elect Joe Biden has been relatively quiet about the technology industry.  In a revealing January 2020 interview with the New York Times editorial board, Biden said that he wanted to revoke Section 230; suggested that he disagreed with how friendly the Obama administration became with Silicon Valley; and referred to tech executives as “little creeps” who displayed an “overwhelming arrogance.” But internet companies have also… Source link

In mid-October, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a long-expected antitrust lawsuit against Google, one of the world’s largest and most influential companies. Claiming that Google has used deals with phone makers to keep its web search… Source link