Tag Archives: commissioner

Rob Manfred has not been without his critics as MLB commissioner. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s tenure officially has an end date: five years from now. Manfred told reporters Thursday at MLB spring training media day that he will step down as commissioner in January 2029, when his contract expires. Manfred signed a four-year extension last summer that took his reign to nearly the end of the decade. That timeframe will see Manfred spend 14 years as commissioner,… Source link

Washington CNN Business  —  Apple and Google’s continued hosting of TikTok on their app stores, despite US national security concerns about the short-form video app, reflects the tech giants’ “gatekeeper” power and should be made part of any antitrust reviews the app stores may face, a member of the Federal Communications Commission wrote to the Justice Department last week. The previously unreported… Source link

LOS ANGELES – In May, Major League Baseball agreed to settle an 8-year-old lawsuit brought by current and former minor leaguers alleging the violation of various wage laws. Four days ago, it was revealed that the settlement totaled $185 million and included a stipulation that, going forward, teams will not be expressly forbidden — as they had been previously — from paying their minor leaguers outside the regular season. On Monday, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee exploring the… Source link

A federal official issued a new warning to Apple and Google, urging the tech giants to remove China-based app TikTok from their app stores. In a letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr cited a new report from Buzzfeed News about the “serious national security threats posed by TikTok.” The report, which analyzed leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, found… Source link

Placeholder while article actions load A U.S. Federal Communications commissioner is calling on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over concerns that user data from the wildly popular social media platform is being accessed in China. In a tweet Wednesday, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr shared a letter addressed to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, the chief executives of Apple and Google parent Alphabet, respectively. He raised concerns over TikTok’s Chinese ownership, saying… Source link

A member of the Federal Communications Commission has asked Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing concerns that the popular Chinese-owned video app could send American data back to Beijing. In a letter to the companies released on Tuesday, Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner, said that he believed “TikTok’s pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. user data” violated Apple and… Source link

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote to Apple and Google on Tuesday, requesting the companies to remove TikTok from their app stores for “its pattern of surreptitious data practices.” This comes after BuzzFeed News reported last week that TikTok’s staff in China had access to US-based users’ data up until January. “As you know TikTok is an app that is available to millions of Americans through your app stores, and it collects vast troves of sensitive data… Source link

A leader of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said he has asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over data security concerns. Pictured here is the TikTok download page on an Apple iPhone on August 7, 2020. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — A leader of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said he has asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over China-related data security concerns. The wildly popular short… Source link

DENVER (AP) — Brice Christianson went to sporting events as a child and realized how inaccessible that world was for his deaf father. On Wednesday night, he stood 10 feet from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman translating English into American Sign Language for the annual state of the league address at the Stanley Cup Final. Christianson was shown picture-in-picture on NHL Network interpreting Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly’s remarks. Sign language interpreters have been present for… Source link

The wild fantasy football feud that has taken over Major League Baseball doesn’t stop with just Tommy Pham and Joc Pederson. It’s also far from over, even after Pham served his three-game suspension. The incident now apparently includes Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout, otherwise known as the “worst commissioner in fantasy sports.” If Trout would have simply run the league, Pham said jokingly, there wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. “Trout did a terrible job, man,”… Source link