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Amazon this week agreed to make a series of changes to its shopping sites and business practices in Europe, thus avoiding huge multi-billion dollar fines. sites, and logistics companies that compete with tech giants. The deal marks the first time in Amazon’s history that it has made a series of changes as a result of a government investigation, and could serve as a blueprint for a deal that U.S. regulators can push over concerns of anti-competitive conduct. . But at least one of the major changes envisioned by EU antitrust authorities as a concession for Amazon has already been under…
Critics have long dismissed electric vehicles as overly expensive, inconvenient, and impractical. But in 2022, we didn’t hear them. With record EV sales this year, there are now billions of dollars in new federal funding designed to encourage companies to build electric vehicles and encourage customers to buy electric vehicles. It has been. As a result, EVs are increasingly becoming less of a niche product for engineers and environmentalists and more of a car that everyday people can drive. It seems that the age of electricity has finally arrived. sign up for newsletter recode Discover how the digital world is…
Have you noticed there are more ads on your iPhone this year? You aren’t wrong — there are. Hope you don’t mind, because in 2023 there may be even more of them, and in more places. Apple is getting more aggressive about its ad business, and the company’s increasingly controversial control over its products is helping that business along. Last year, Apple used its power over the App Store to force apps to get users’ permission to collect data on them across other apps, a feature the company called App Tracking Transparency. This cut off a stream of data that…
Neither snow, rain, heat nor climate change will prevent these couriers from quickly completing their scheduled rounds. On Tuesday, the U.S. Postal Service announced plans to purchase 106,000 new vehicles by 2028. 66,000 of them are powered by electricity and have zero greenhouse gas emissions. His $9.6 billion investment in mail trucks and chargers (including $3 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act) will soon give the U.S. Postal Service the nation’s largest electric vehicle. Such large-scale bulk purchases will drive the entire EV market, spurring demand across the electric vehicle supply chain, from batteries to semiconductors. Economies of scale will…
It’s been over 36 hours since people overwhelmingly voted for Elon Musk to step down as Twitter’s CEO (57.5% of nearly 17 million votes were in favor of Musk’s resignation). But instead of immediately publicly accepting the results of what he said he would do, after Musk himself started it on Twitter, a platform he owns, Musk has turned to the effectiveness of his polls. I am questioning. Anonymous Twitter users aren’t the only ones wanting Musk to step down. Outside investors also want Musk to focus more on Tesla than on Twitter. They see the Twitter drama as distracting…
If you’re a TikTok user, your For You page will be a little more transparent, the company said in a blog post Tuesday morning. It comes hours after unveiling a mandatory passage total spending bill that includes a clause banning TikTok from. The two moves symbolize TikTok’s difficult years in the United States as it seeks to reassure the federal government that it has no ties to or influence from the Chinese Communist Party. A growing number of lawmakers are becoming increasingly skeptical of his TikTok, believing that the China-based company that owns TikTok, ByteDance, is actually controlled by the…
At first, 2022 looked like it would be another celebratory year for the extremely rich. In early January, Tesla stock was trading at well over $300 per share. Its CEO, Elon Musk, had recently been named Time’s 2021 Person of the Year. He was Earth’s richest person, an exemplar of capitalism gone right, a visionary building companies that would benefit humanity and not just line his own pockets. He was so intelligent that he purportedly taught himself rocket science, so ambitious that he made the electric car sexy in an effort to stem the climate crisis. As 2022 comes to…
Fortnite was playing with consumer protection laws while your kids were playing it. Epic Games, makers of the hugely popular Fortnite series, has documented the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) history of violations of children’s privacy and “dark patterns” that intentionally trick users into purchasing with manipulative designs. We have paid the largest two settlements. The settlement, announced Monday, requires Epic to pay a total of $520 million for two consumer protection matters. He’s $275 million for invasion of privacy, and $245 million for making it easier for consumers to accidentally purchase goods, cancel or make it too difficult. We will…
Elon Musk has only been in charge of Twitter since late October. But already, he’s turned the company and its platform upside down. Almost immediately after he took over, Musk booted top executives, slashed rank-and-file headcount by 50 percent, issued remaining employees an ultimatum to be “hardcore” in their work ethic or quit, and fast-tracked a hodgepodge of potentially revenue-generating features, including charging users to get or keep a verification check mark. And that was all before he allowed former president Donald Trump back on the app, reversing Trump’s former ban on the platform, and then declared “amnesty” for previously…
The meta has had a tough year. In 2022, the company saw its stock price plunge to historic lows, laid off 11,000 employees, and faced intense skepticism from impatient investors about the viability of its futuristic metaverse vision. But that doesn’t convince the tech giants to change their plans. In a note to Meta staff also posted on social media, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, one of Meta’s chief executives, said Monday that the company is facing a difficult time. I looked back on Build new AR/VR technologies, including those that power the Metaverse, a series of immersive 3D virtual worlds…