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The United Nations is trying to define cybercrime (Axios)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/11/2023 - 13:09Cable companies eye mobile to save the bundle
The country's biggest cable companies have been leaning into mobile plans as pay-TV subscriptions plummet and growth from broadband begins to plateau. This matters because cable operators are betting that mobile plans in their bundles will make it harder for consumers to quit their other services.
McCarthy's fast start: Big Tech is a top target
House Republicans plan to launch a new investigative panel that will demand copies of White House emails, memos, and other communications with Big Tech companies. The new panel, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, is partly a response to revelations from Elon Musk in the internal documents he branded the "Twitter Files." The subcommittee will be chaired by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) — a close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and a favorite of the hard right. The probe into communications between tech giants and
Microsoft, Activision back off aggressive claim in FTC case (Axios)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/06/2023 - 06:58Tech giants face alternate universes across the Atlantic (Axios)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 01/05/2023 - 10:51Meta expected to decide soon on fate of Trump accounts (Axios)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 01/04/2023 - 12:24News engagement stabilized in 2022 (Axios)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 01/03/2023 - 11:10Slow fade for Google and Meta's ad dominance
Google and Meta, known together in the ad industry as the "duopoly," are expected to bring in less than half of all US digital advertising this year for the first time since 2014.
Tech legislation's 2022 scorecard
A bevy of proposals to limit Big Tech firms' power gave up their last gasp as Congress released the text of its year-end spending bill. But the following major tech-related b