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Benzinga Cannabis Countdown: Top 10 Marijuana And Psychedelics Industry News Stories Of The Week Welcome to the Cannabis Countdown, the Legal Marijuana Industry’s Number One Curated Weekly News Recap. In This Week’s Edition, We Recap and Countdown the Top 10 Cannabis and Psychedelics Industry News Stories for the Week of March 1st – 7th, 2021. Without further ado, let’s get started. * Yahoo Finance readers, please click here to view the full article. 10. Creso Pharma: A Global Cannabis… Source link

The privacy regulator overseeing Facebook Inc., FB -0.58% Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 1.17% Google and Apple Inc. in the European Union expects to boost its tally of big tech decisions this year—and rejects complaints that its enforcement has been too slow. Helen Dixon, who leads Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, said her office is on… Source link

(Bloomberg) — U.S. equity futures slid with European stocks on Tuesday as the jump in bond yields and commodity prices continued to hammer technology shares. Nasdaq futures slumped 1.7% a day after the tech-heavy gauge posted its longest losing streak in four months. Tesla Inc. dropped 5% in pre-market trading as investors continued to punish stocks that have led the rally from the depths of the pandemic a year ago. In Europe, tech shares dragged the Stoxx 600 Index lower. Budding inflation… Source link

Watch: Pound and FTSE 100 fall sharply as markets react to Europe’s UK travel bans UK stocks and the pound sold off sharply on Monday morning, as investors reacted to fresh pandemic restrictions in Britain and news that much of Europe had shut its borders to the UK. Billions were wiped off the FTSE 100 on Monday morning after a new more infectious strain of COVID-19 sparked panic among investors. Stock markets fell sharply around the globe amid fears that the strain could spread… Source link

Google now faces several antitrust challenges around the world, including three government lawsuits filed in the U.S. in the last two months alone. Scrutiny of Google has long preceded these cases, with the European Commission cracking down on the search giant well before U.S. regulators caught up. Google also faces a couple notable antitrust challenges from private complainants. Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., gestures while speaking during a discussion on artificial… Source link

Europe has greenlit Google’s $2.1BN acquisition of fitness wearable maker Fitbit, applying a number of conditions intended to shrink competition concerns over letting it gobble a major cache of health and wellness data following months of regulatory scrutiny of the deal. While Google announced its plan to buy Fitbit over a year ago, it only notified the transaction to the Commission on June 15, 2020 — meaning it’s taken half a year to be given a caveated go-ahead by Europe. It is… Source link

The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned. The Harvard professor who wrote the defining book on surveillance capitalism has become the latest voice raised against the $2.1 billion data+devices deal — that’s now been delayed at the regulatory clearance stage for more than a year. Others calling for the Google-Fitbit acquisition to be blocked — unless or until robust… Source link

The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned. The Harvard professor who wrote the defining book on surveillance capitalism has become the latest voice raised against the $2.1 billion data+devices deal — that’s now been delayed at the regulatory clearance stage for more than a year. Others calling for the Google-Fitbit acquisition to be blocked — unless or until robust competition,… Source link

Stocks pointed sharply lower Monday as new data showed a jump in COVID-19 cases in both the U.S. and Europe. Restrictions tightened across major countries overseas, raising the specter of a further pullback in business operations and deeper anchor on global economic activity. Shares of companies set to benefit from a broader economic reopening including airlines like American Airlines (AAL), cruise lines including Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) and hotels like Wynn Resorts (WYNN) sank…. Source link