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A federal judge is dismissing Disney’s (DIS) free speech lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — a big win for the politician amid his ongoing political feud with the media giant. In a court filing obtained by Yahoo Finance, US District Judge Allen Winsor, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump in 2019, granted a motion to dismiss the First Amendment case. The judge determined that Disney’s position “fails on the merits” and ultimately “lacked… Source link

“Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud,” Amit Zavery, a Google cloud vice president, wrote in the post. “This applies to all customers globally.”  While Zavery didn’t name any specific vendors, data transfer fees are a profitable source of revenue for tech companies and can serve to reduce churn… Source link

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea will launch a military strike immediately in response to any provocation, Kim Yo Jong, the sister and key ally of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Sunday, as it fired artillery shells near its border with the South for the third day in a row. The remarks come after South Korea’s military said the North had fired more than 60 artillery rounds on Saturday near their disputed maritime border, following a similar volley of more than 200 the previous day. North Korea again… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats  The Verge Source link

NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) said on Friday it will cooperate with India’s competition authority after the country’s top court upheld an antitrust order forcing the U.S. firm to change how it markets its popular Android platform. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ruled in October that Google, owned by Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), exploited its dominant position in Android and told it to remove restrictions on device makers, including those related to pre-installation of… Source link

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Google said on Friday it will cooperate with India’s antitrust authority after the country’s top court upheld an antitrust order forcing the U.S. firm to change how it markets its popular Android platform. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ruled in October that Google, owned by Alphabet Inc, exploited its dominant position in Android and told it to remove restrictionson device makers, including those related to pre-installation of apps. It also… Source link

By Greg Roumeliotis (Reuters) – Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement. Twitter’s chairman, Bret Taylor https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768?s=20&t=7sx_IvK_zZkztdHdh8pwQQ, said on the micro-blogging platform that the board planned to pursue legal action to enforce the merger… Source link

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James would rather be playing basketball right now. Instead, James is sitting at home watching other teams try and win it all. James made it clear Friday he’s not a fan of that arrangement. James, 37, vowed to never again miss the postseason, saying, “This s*** HURT.” James has appeared in an astounding 266 playoff games in his career. He’s only missed the postseason four times over his 19-year career. Two of those seasons have come since James joined the… Source link

Senator Pat Toomey, ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, says he’s prepared to fix the broad definition of a cryptocurrency broker that’s contained within the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill bogged down in Congress. The comments come as the House is pushing for an imminent vote on a $550 billion so-called “hard” infrastructure bill, which would invest in bridges to roads and the nation’s broadband, water and energy systems. The legislative language includes a… Source link

Over 5 decades ago, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York City Greenwich Village. The events that followed fueled the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans (LGBTQ+) rights moment. And as the Big Apple was walloped last year by the COVID-19 pandemic, the historic club — like many other small business and cultural mainstays in the city — found itself in dire financial straits. Currently, New York City is in the midst of a revival, and celebrating Pride Month. Yet back in… Source link