By Sam Sabin Top Stories Margrethe Vestager will remain in her role as the European Union’s antitrust enforcer during European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen’s administration. Vestager, who will also oversee digital policy as executive vice president in the new regime, has pursued record fines against Google and demanded changes to Ireland’s tax relationship […]
By Sam Sabin Top Stories Apple Inc. and manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group both acknowledged that they rely too heavily on contract labor in a Chinese iPhone factory after conducting reviews examining claims from nonprofit watchdog China Labor Watch that the companies violated the country’s labor laws. The watchdog’s report, which was written based on […]
By Sam Sabin Week in Review State antitrust actions A group of states will launch antitrust investigations into both Google and Facebook Inc. this week, according to people familiar with the matter. Google’s investigation, which is expected to be announced on Monday, will be led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the people said, and New […]
By Sam Sabin Top Stories A group of states will launch antitrust investigations into both Google and Facebook Inc. next week, according to people familiar with the matter. Google’s investigation, which is expected to be announced on Monday, will be led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and New York Attorney General Letitia James is […]
By Sam Sabin Morning Consult has published the latest edition of its monthly Trump Tracker, showing the president’s approval state by state, month over month. See it here. Top Stories More than 419 million Facebook Inc. user identifiers and phone numbers — including 133 million records of U.S. users — were left exposed in several […]
By Sam Sabin Top Stories A Facebook Inc. spokesperson said the company plans to apply its rules against creating fake accounts to those set up by the Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies, saying that “law enforcement authorities, like everyone else, are required to use their real names on Facebook,” and […]
By Sam Sabin Top Stories Huawei Technologies Co. in a press release today alleged that the United States government is “using every tool at its disposal” to target the company’s business, such as cyberattacks and “sending FBI agents to the homes of Huawei employees” to pressure them into spying on the company. Huawei did […]
By Sam Sabin Morning Consult Tech will be off Monday for the Labor Day holiday. Publication of the morning newsletters and afternoon updates will resume Tuesday. Week in Review Cyber and national security The Democratic National Committee will recommend state election officials in Iowa and Nevada scrap their plans for phone-based virtual caucuses in the 2020 […]
By Sam Sabin Morning Consult Tech will be off Monday for the Labor Day holiday. Publication of the morning newsletters and afternoon updates will resume Tuesday. Top Stories Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. said they are pledging $60 million to fund a new California 2020 ballot initiative to create an alternate employee classification for […]
By Sam Sabin Top Stories Kevin Martin, Facebook Inc.’s vice president of U.S. public policy, said in a response letter to Democratic Sens. Ed Markey (Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) that the company has been “in regular contact” with the Federal Trade Commission about issues including its Messenger Kids app. Martin did not say when […]
