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US tech giant Google stepped up its public relations campaign against Australian regulation Friday, presenting all search users Down Under with a “proposal” to water down planned rules. Australians searching for any term were presented with a pop-up setting out the company’s opposition to proposed legislation that would force them to pay news companies for content. Google and Facebook have vehemently opposed the proposed rules, which are designed to rebalance the… Source link

TipRanks 2 Biotech Stocks Wells Fargo Says Are Ready to Bounce The biotech sector has started the year with a bang. The industry benchmark, iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology ETF (IBB), is up ~11% so far in January — far better than the S&P 500’s 3% return. Covering the sector for Wells Fargo, 5-star analyst Jim Birchenough is upbeat about what he sees. “Overall, we see roughly 20% to 30% additional upside for the sector by historical metrics and would argue that accelerating pace of innovation… Source link

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang made his first appearance as a New York City mayoral candidate on Thursday, proposing a basic income program for the city’s poorest. “We will launch the largest basic income program in the history of the country,” Yang stated. “We will lift hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers out of extreme poverty, putting cash relief directly into the hands of the families who desperately need help right now.” Yang’s plan, a modified version… Source link

FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will pause all campaign donations from its political action committee, a spokesman said, in the wake of the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol and efforts to block the certification of election results “We have frozen all NetPAC political contributions while we review and reassess its policies… Source link

Canada’s local news publishers, big and small, came together this fall to urge the federal government – and MPs of all parties — to join with democracies around the world in fighting Google and Facebook’s relentless attacks against local news. The two web giants use their monopoly positions to deny local newspapers the revenues – primarily from advertising – that pays for real journalism. We outlined a comprehensive set of actions needed to loosen this unfair market stranglehold… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump campaign sues Michigan to prevent certification of Biden win  Yahoo News Source link

In the days following the election, President Trump’s baseless allegations of rampant fraud in the vote-counting process have been incorporated into a hasty, slapdash legal strategy that so far has yielded limited results. As Trump loses his grip on the presidency, his campaign is using state and federal courts to attempt to “stop the count,” as Trump himself has said, and question the validity of the ballots that have already been counted. But vote counting has continued despite the… Source link

Google is planning an aggressive campaign targeted against French commissioner Thierry Breton and other regulators in Brussels over their plans to introduce new laws to curb the power of big tech, according to a leaked internal document. The report, written in response to the EU’s plan to introduce a sweeping new Digital Services Act, laid out a two-month strategy intended to remove “unreasonable constraints” to Google’s business model and “reset the political… Source link

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign is warning supporters that the 2020 race is “far closer” than has been suggested. Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, in a memo warned supporters they should not grow complacent about the state of the race due to the Democratic nominee’s consistent lead in national polls, The New York Times and The Washington Post report. “We cannot become complacent because the very searing truth is that Donald Trump can still win this race,… Source link

Google said in a new blog post that hackers linked to the Chinese government have been impersonating antivirus software McAfee to try to infect victims’ machines with malware. And, Google says, the hackers appear to be the same group that unsuccessfully targeted the presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden with a phishing attack earlier this year. A similar group of hackers based in Iran had tried to target President Trump’s campaign, but also was unsuccessful. The… Source link