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Exclusive: Facebook and Google could lose bargaining power under upcoming U.S. bill to help news outlets

By Diane Bartz, Helen Coster WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks to make it easier for smaller news organizations to negotiate with Big Tech platforms, said Rep. Ken Buck, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel. The U.S. bill would be introduced at a time when Australia is in a pitched battle with Facebook. The social media giant blocked news feeds and other pages – including those of charities, and… Source link

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Exclusive: Facebook and Google could lose bargaining power under upcoming U.S. bill to help news outlets

By Diane Bartz, Helen Coster WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks to make it easier for smaller news organizations to negotiate with Big Tech platforms, said Rep. Ken Buck, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel. The U.S. bill would be introduced at a time when Australia is in a pitched battle with Facebook. The social media giant blocked news feeds and other pages – including those of charities, and… Source link

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Exclusive: Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated

PARIS (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show, a deal one news publishers’ lobby deemed unfair. FILE PHOTO: A man jogs past a news rack which displayed copies of French newspapers on the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice, France, April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo The two documents, seen by Reuters and disclosed publicly for the… Source link

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Exclusive: Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated

PARIS (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show, a deal one news publishers’ lobby deemed unfair. FILE PHOTO: A man jogs past a news rack which displayed copies of French newspapers on the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice, France, April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo The two documents, seen by Reuters and disclosed publicly for the… Source link

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Exclusive: Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated

PARIS (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show. FILE PHOTO: A man jogs past a news rack which displayed copies of French newspapers on the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice, France, April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo The agreement between Google and the Alliance de la presse d’information generale (APIG), a lobby group… Source link

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Exclusive: Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated

PARIS (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show. FILE PHOTO: A man jogs past a news rack which displayed copies of French newspapers on the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice, France, April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo The agreement between Google and the Alliance de la presse d’information generale (APIG), a lobby group… Source link

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Exclusive: Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated

PARIS (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show. FILE PHOTO: A man jogs past a news rack which displayed copies of French newspapers on the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice, France, April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo The agreement between Google and the Alliance de la presse d’information generale (APIG), a lobby group… Source link

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Exclusive: Google’s $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated

PARIS (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show. FILE PHOTO: A man jogs past a news rack which displayed copies of French newspapers on the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice, France, April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo The agreement between Google and the Alliance de la presse d’information generale (APIG), a lobby group… Source link

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Exclusive: Trump admin slams China’s Huawei, halting shipments from Intel, others

By Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel, that it is revoking certain licenses to sell to the Chinese company and intends to reject dozens of other applications to supply the telecommunications firm, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The action – likely the last against Huawei Technologies under Republican President Donald Trump – is the latest in a long-running effort to… Source link

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Exclusive: Civil rights groups demand Google remove Trump’s YouTube channel

(Reuters) – U.S. civil rights groups will organize an advertiser boycott against Alphabet’s YouTube if it does not remove President Donald Trump’s channel, the groups told Reuters. Jim Steyer, one of the organizers of the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign which led over 1,000 advertisers to boycott Facebook in July, said the groups are demanding YouTube take down Trump’s verified YouTube channel, which has 2.76 million subscribers. YouTube is the last major tech company that has not… Source link

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