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Yelp Claims Google Broke Promise Made to Regulators(wsj.com)
99 points by IBM 9y ago|70 comments
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by IBM 9y ago
There's a good measure for the candidate people like, the popular vote, and Hillary got 2.9 million more than Trump.
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by IBM 9y ago
The new SoC sounds like it's going to be amazing [1]. I don't think Qualcomm or Samsung are going to be able to compete for years. [1] https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/90692329088688537...
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by IBM 9y ago
That's already happening. Germany, for example, has enacted new legislation to force social media companies to take down hate speech posts or face fines [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/busines
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by IBM 9y ago
A real solution to this, which may seem indirect to many, is more aggressive antitrust enforcement. These internet giants have become the new (global) public square at the expense of all the old world institutions for civic discourse and if
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by IBM 9y ago
Just to be clear, the Bank of Canada can control the overnight rate if it moves outside of the "operating band" by directly intervening in the market with overnight repo and reverse repo operations [1]. [1] http://www.b
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by IBM 9y ago
>What really put salt in the wound, though, was the fact that it appeared Google had stolen our user data for their own places product. The same thing happened to Yelp [1]. I'm sure the EU and FTC would like to hear your startup&#x2
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by IBM 9y ago
It's not questionable marketing tactics they were trying to keep out of the public eye, it was the suggestion that they're abusing their dominance in search to enter a new market (in this case social networks).
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She says it was her own decision to pull the story down. But yes, clearly they were leaning on her. https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/903405823769980928
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It's not a dupe of that story, the author is describing her own case. I didn't have enough characters to include the entire title. She does summarize the think tank story in the first three paragraphs, but her own reporting comes
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Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like(gizmodo.com)
605 points by IBM 9y ago|190 comments
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Apple has been selling music and video on iTunes for 14 years. Spending $1B on content doesn't change anything for them.
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by IBM 9y ago
Two turkeys don't make an eagle and Apple trying to roll out fiber would be throwing good money after bad. Apple is a global company, being a regional ISP doesn't move the needle for them.
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Yeah how's that working out for Google?
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It's also because most SD cards have garbage performance and wouldn't get anywhere near Apple's storage speeds. And that definitely would be a negative for the experience.
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by IBM 9y ago
I don't understand how tech people continue to misunderstand the logic of the EU's argument or antitrust law in general, even with the benefit of the history of the Microsoft case.
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>“Shelved” is an accurate word, but I think many people have interpreted it as meaning that Apple has given up on designing its own vehicles. My understanding is that it’s more like “Let’s get the autonomous shit down first, and worry ab
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by IBM 9y ago
"When Steve is gone," Tevanian said, "the competition still will not have Steve Jobs."
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by IBM 9y ago
Looks like John Gruber has confirmed what I suspected. https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/titan_nyt
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This is a weirdly titled report which implies it just happened. The "Apple scales back" part was already reported first by Bloomberg last year (which seems to be behind a paywall now) [1]. Bob Mansfield was brought on to refocus P
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by IBM 9y ago
His argument is in his first sentence. How do you account for Germany suppressing Nazism while being an open democracy? And as far as I know, they've been successful at it. The premise of the OP is that it just creates more support for
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by IBM 9y ago
So is Illumina basically the "selling pickaxes during a gold rush" of this space?
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The WSJ story says the offices are soundproof: >A section of workspace in the circular, Norman Foster–designed building is finally move-in-ready: sliding-glass doors on the soundproof offices, a giant European white oak collaboration tab
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The WSJ story has some pictures of what it looks like [1]. There seems to be offices with doors, but they look like it seats about 20 people. There are also common areas with long tables between them. https://si.wsj.net/publ
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I don't work for Apple.
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I find this hard to believe given what I know about Apple's corporate culture. If your characterization of his employment is true, I don't believe it's common. I think the closest that might come to this is Bob Mansfield. He
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by IBM 9y ago
Dr. Dre has actually been working for Apple. He's had a show on Beats 1 since Apple Music launched. There were also reports of him starring in a show about his life and career that would be for Apple Music. https://itunes.ap
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by IBM 9y ago
I had a similar thought. I'd say that tech has been firmly in the "masters of the universe" phase for a while now and while I don't think the end of it will be the same as in finance (the nature of the businesses are com
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This is probably why Apple, a hardware company, has operating margins that are higher than Google and Microsoft (even though their gross margins are almost half of Google's and Microsoft's). The only person I can think of that mig
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The second top level comment is much better: >This is basically an advertorial for the Right to Repair legislation. I continue to be amazed by how uncritically this topic has been covered. Jason Koebler at Vice has basically been an acti

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