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    After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.
    Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.
    willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    New York Times story alleges that Google lobbied New America to expel the Open Markets program because of this press release.
    After more than years of doing strong policy work at New America Open position is not news to Google.
    For example one of our other programs Future Tense will be hosting several events later this year on the dangers of monopolies.
    One of the most important jobs of a founder is to recognize when things are going quite right and make the necessary decisions and take action to correct them before customers are impacted.
    Founders are often faced with thousands of daily to keep their companies on delivering products into the right markets at precisely the right time.
    We continue to believe deeply in our vision and the innovation we are bringing to life via our Home Phone and Camera products.
    After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.
    Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.
    willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    After initially eschewing Washington public policy debates which were seen in Silicon Valley as politics Google has developed an influence operation that is arguably more muscular and sophisticated than that of any other American company.
    Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.
    willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    In order to provide greater clarity and context to the issues raised in the New York Times article dated Wednesday August New America is releasing in its entirety email correspondence from its President and CEO Slaughter to the former director of Open Markets Barry Lynn.
    The first email quoted in the New York Times is from June a full year ago.
    Subsequently we continued to support the work of Open Markets while asking Barry to abide by institutional norms of transparency and collegiality.
    You have until midnight Eastern Time tomorrow night Wednesday to file comments on the Federal Communications Commission plan to deregulate broadband service and roll back net neutrality rules.
    Many comments are apparently from spam bots and form letters but Chairman Ajit Pai proposal to undo net neutrality rules has received massive attention.
    In a Congressional hearing a Democratic lawmaker pressed Pai to detail what kind of comments would change his mind about rolling back net neutrality rules.
    As always we encourage people to be vigilant about the security of their account and exercise caution if they encounter any suspicious activity such as unrecognized incoming calls texts and emails.
    Phone numbers and emails are important personal identifiers and potential hackers can find out a lot of information about people by investigating them.
    With an email address and a telephone number it not difficult to cross reference information online to find out more about a target even a celebrity said privacy expert Jessy Irwin.
    Last night some customers who had preordered an Essential phone received an email asking for a copy of their license ostensibly to verify their address in an attempt to prevent fraud.
    We spoke with one of the customers who received the email Professor Ron Schnell who also happens to know quite a lot about digital forensics he served as the CTO on Rand presidential campaign.
    What appears to have happened is that Essential had a list of customers it needed to verify to prevent fraud so it sent them an email requesting more information.
    On a warm Phoenix night five years ago Aaron Cashatt walked down the hall of the second floor of a Marriott hotel trying to move casually despite the adrenaline and methamphetamine surging through his bloodstream.
    When the electric shock switched off his muscle control however found out real fast that I As Cashatt tells it the cops handcuffed arrested and booked him without even allowing him to change clothes leaving him to sit in his own excrement for the next four hours.
    She drove for half an hour toward the Mexican border through the cotton and date fields and onto a road that seemed to end suddenly in a sea of dust nothing in sight but sand scrub and the highway rolling past behind her as she faced a sprawling prison complex.

 

Mid Day Market Update for Wednesday | $AAPL, $BA, $TSLA, $FB, $BABA, $NVDA, $AMZN, $NFLX, $MU

Mid Day Market Update for Wednesday | $AAPL, $BA, $TSLA, $FB, $BABA, $NVDA, $AMZN, $NFLX, $MU

Tax Bad News, North Korea, Storms and Buyers showed up on thin volume yesterday lifting the equity markets, on hope leaving and closing today with flat to up day..  Today few stocks kept their momentum names like $AAPL, $BA, $TSLA, $FB, $BABA, $NVDA, $AMZN , those named we have traded them to the long side.. – Check Chat Room

On Waves Side its a Classic Wave 4 Head Games: remember some psychology behind these moves…all the bears got all over that first move to 2415 ES….and loaded the boat…to one side….also bulls go oh hey buy the dip again…works every time… we got that nasty rally…and shook tons of shorts out yet again…and easy bull money made to the Buy the Dip (BTD) crowd….now we continue to weaken back down to fib retrace levels…but it acts violent….that boat can get heavy again on the shorts side…and you have the buy the dippers thinking zero risk again…

then one more clean b-wave rag-doll move higher….and then you have a market with no confident shorts into that rally…given up all hope….and a whipsawed masses crowd…..and buy the dippers told again…wait for weakness again and lay into it!
ONLY to enter the period where the C-wave can fall freely….as shorts lost positions and bulls blindly buy every dip that deteriorates….

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    working with manufacturers like Samsung Huawei LG ASUS and others to make this possible with a consistent bar for quality and high performance.
    Motion tracking Using the camera to observe feature points in the room and IMU sensor data ARCore determines both the position and orientation pose of the phone as it moves.
    We built Blocks and Tilt Brush to make it easy for anyone to quickly create great content for use in AR apps.
    He grew up in Tarrytown trained as an engineer at Brown and spent many years at IAC serving as Chief Financial Officer and in various operational and strategic roles.
    He has four children and not surprisingly loves to travel one of his favorite trips being to the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia where his wife Sydney said yes to marrying him.
    Whether an Indian inspired samosa a good American burger or Vietnamese pho people in countries are using UberEATS to get a taste of the flavors at the push of a button.
    Amazon Apple Microsoft Google and nearly every other big tech company is pouring huge amounts of money into making digital assistants that are smarter and can do more seeing them as a new way for people to interact naturally with devices and online services.
    In a phone interview Nadella compared digital assistants like Cortana and Alexa to competing web browsers that provide access to the same pools of online information.
    Apple and Google may see competitive advantages in keeping their separate from rival assistants partly as a way to protect a selling point of their mobile software iOS and Android.
    With a crisper screen that takes up nearly the entire front Apple has tested the complete removal of the home a digital favor of new gesture controls for tasks like going to the main app grid and opening multitasking according to the people and the images.
    In the new iPhone Apple also plans a taller screen with rounded corners a cutout at the top of the display for the camera and sensors and new antenna locations the images show.
    The cutout is noticeable during app usage in the middle of the very top of the screen where the status bar the area that shows cellular reception the time and battery life would normally be placed according to the images.
    Microsoft has built its digital assistant more directly into its Office products and now Alexa will get that functionality via Cortana accessing work calendars and email for example.
    a surprise move by both companies and comes just as Microsoft is preparing to launch a Cortana speaker with Harman Kardon and push its digital assistant into cars thermostats and more devices.
    Amazon Microsoft Apple and Google have all built rival digital assistants that have been seen as walled gardens blocked off from each other and this partnership signals a move to make them work better together.
    Some tech lobbyists think tank officials and scholars argue that the efforts help explain why Google has mostly avoided damaging regulatory and enforcement decisions in the United States of the sort levied by the European Union in late June.
    The Open statement that drew ire praised the fine and called on United States regulators to more aggressively enforce antitrust rules against Google Amazon and dominant platform.
    willingness to spread cash around the think tanks and advocacy groups focused on internet and telecommunications policy has effectively muted if not silenced criticism of the company over the past several years said Marc Rotenberg the president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    Speaking publicly for the first time since getting picked to run Uber the outgoing Expedia CEO suggested he plans to tackle allegations of sexual discrimination and systemic cultural issues at the giant.
    is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege Khosrowshahi said in an interview at headquarters in Bellevue Washington.
    At the end of a contentious CEO search Khosrowshahi emerged as the dark horse beating out candidates such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Meg Whitman and General Electric Jeffrey Immelt.
    A report from Bloomberg provides fresh details on how Apple plans to replace the button with new gestures and navigational elements for the iPhone user interface.
    On the lock screen users pull this bar upwards to unlock the phone reminiscent of the iconic to action that Apple removed in iOS.
    Bloomberg says recent test devices position the time on the left whilst the right side shows signal bars WiFi indicator and battery life.
    board was still too fractured Meg Whitman chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise said of Jason Henry for The New York Times Earlier on Tuesday in an interview at offices in Bellevue Khosrowshahi said of the company would be happy to get.
    Whitman a veteran of the tech industry who had led multiple public companies quickly became a favorite candidate of Benchmark one of largest investors which also has a board seat.
    Jeffrey Immelt the former chief executive of General Electric dropped out of the race to lead Uber on Sebastien Getty Images Some of points to board members did echo.
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    Amazon is completed its billion acquisition of the Austin grocery chain on Monday dramatically expanding the tech footprint and is already making changes.
    Inside the Whole Foods at South Lake Union on Monday morning just steps away from headquarters in Seattle there was signage notifying customers of Whole new parent.
    The rapid changeover makes it clear that the Whole Foods and Amazon teams were coordinating in advance at least to a limited extent which is unusual when corporate acquisitions are still pending.
    ET Apple is scrambling to strike deals with Hollywood studios to offer definition films on its new Apple TV but discussions have been hampered by disagreements over pricing according to people with knowledge of the talks.
    The tech giant will unveil the new version of its streaming media device at an event and tout its compatibility with new televisions people with knowledge of its plans said.
    The format offers pixels per sharper than traditional.
    Uber said it needed permission to always gather data in order to track riders for five minutes after a trip was completed which the company believed could help in ensuring customers physical safety.
    If Uber decides that tracking a location for five minutes is valuable in the future it will seek to explain what the value is and allow customers to opt in to the setting he said.
    The change comes two weeks after Uber settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company failed to protect the personal information of drivers and passengers and was deceptive about its efforts to prevent snooping by its employees.
    Amazon closes its Whole Foods acquisition deal today making the supermarket chain an official subsidiary of the online giant.
    As of opening time for most Whole Foods stores on the east coast Amazon already marked its territory with display stands for Echo smart speakers.
    Whole Foods is signifying price cuts with an orange tag complete with the Amazon logo slapped across.
    As we get ready for a big week with our partners I would like to share with you some exciting details about our product including the first wave of content experiences you can immerse yourself in this holiday.
    This also means these experiences are portable whether you are traveling for work or visiting friends and family just pack your PC and headset and you can share the magic of mixed reality.
    Both configurations will support immersive video and gaming experiences such as traveling to a new country exploring space swimming with dolphins or shooting zombies.
    ET Apple is scrambling to strike deals with Hollywood studios to offer definition films on its new Apple TV but discussions have been hampered by disagreements over pricing according to people with knowledge of the talks.
    The tech giant will unveil the new version of its streaming media device at an event and tout its compatibility with new televisions people with knowledge of its plans said.
    The format offers pixels per sharper than traditional.
    That was Tim Cook Apple chief executive across the table from me over breakfast here in downtown Austin late last week at the end of a across the country during which he focused on topics usually reserved for politicians manufacturing jobs and education.
    He then flew to Des Moines where he announced plans to make a billion investment in a data center in nearby Waukee to help store and move giant amounts of information for its services like iCloud and FaceTime.
    As we finished up breakfast before we headed over to Austin Capital Factory an incubator for tech where he would announce the new curriculum I mentioned a question that some in Silicon Valley and elsewhere have asked Is his focus on jobs and speeches in front of American flags a hint at something bigger.
    If the judge does not allow the case to go to arbitration it expose the company to significant and unnecessary harm for no reason other than desire to use this forum to publicly slander Kalanick with its fabricated allegations lawyers write.
    proposed new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was presented as a candidate between the warring sides but will still have to navigate the unabated board tension along with the lawsuit which has yet to show signs of calming.
    Meg Whitman choice for CEO intended to end the on the board and limit role at the company.
    And now Cook is one of the many business leaders in the country who appear to be filling the void using his platform at Apple to wade into larger social issues that typically fell beyond the mandate of executives in past generations.
    He was vocal for example in criticizing Trump after Charlottesville in a memo to his staff disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.
    As we finished up breakfast before we headed over to Capital Factory an incubator for tech where he would announce the new curriculum I mentioned a question that some in Silicon Valley and elsewhere have asked Is his focus on jobs and speeches in front of American flags a hint at something bigger.
    And now Cook is one of the many business leaders in the country who appear to be filling the void using his platform at Apple to wade into larger social issues that typically fell beyond the mandate of executives in past generations.
    He was vocal for example in criticizing Trump after Charlottesville in a memo to his staff disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.
    As we finished up breakfast before we headed over to Capital Factory an incubator for tech where he would announce the new curriculum I mentioned a question that some in Silicon Valley and elsewhere have asked Is his focus on jobs and speeches in front of American flags a hint at something bigger.
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    In March Google introduced new software and staffers to monitor videos after a slew of marketers pledged to pull YouTube spending over concern their ads were running alongside extremist content.
    With its latest policy YouTube is targeting trickier borderline content such as videos that espouse Holocaust denial theories and clips from white supremacist David Duke.
    In the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville Virginia earlier this month several tech companies including Google Facebook and Airbnb have taken steps to cut associated people and groups off their platforms.
    The updated box to be revealed alongside new iPhone and Apple Watch models at an event in September will run a faster processor capable of streaming the content said the people who asked not to be identified because the plans yet public.
    Apple TV trails devices from Roku and Alphabet Google in the box market share with only percent as of the end of March according to a survey this month from Parks Associates.
    In June the company hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg former Sony Pictures Television presidents to head up its video programming efforts.
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    Lee in a navy blue suit and white shirt occasionally applied lip balm and kept a cool facial expression which change as the verdict was announced according to South Yonhap News Agency.
    Public perception in South Korea toward the biggest business empires has changed in recent years as scandals have mounted and as the economy has matured making them less appealing in an era of entrepreneurship and.
    hope this will be the first step in cutting the stubborn ties of corruption between politics and business which has been a roadblock to progress in our society said Yoon senior secretary at the Blue House the South Korean executive office and residence.
    The crackdown here follows the recent removal of apps in China that allowed residents to evade censors and gain access to the global internet and were deemed illegal by the Chinese government.
    The Obama administration eased restrictions on American tech companies that offered internet services in Iran as a way of encouraging a free flow of information especially among younger Iranians.
    Azari Jahromi wrote in Persian that percent of the cellphone market in Iran belongs to He added customer rights is a principle today that Apple abided by.
    As a down payment on that vision Whole Foods Market will offer lower prices starting Monday on a selection of grocery staples across its stores with more to come.
    The two companies will invent in additional areas over time including in merchandising and logistics to enable lower prices for Whole Foods Market customers.
    This is just the beginning Amazon and Whole Foods Market plan to offer more benefits and lower prices for customers over time as the two companies integrate logistics and and merchandising systems.
    By Updated.
    ET said it would begin slashing prices on grocery items from bananas to baby kale at its new Whole Foods Market unit right away serving notice that the giant plans to move quickly to shake up the supermarket industry with its billion acquisition.
    The announcement Thursday which sent stocks of traditional grocers into a fresh tailspin said price changes for both staples and more foods would go into effect as soon as Amazon closes the Whole Foods deal on Monday.
    Miguel McKelvey and Adam Neumann discuss WeWork at IGNITION Insider.
    WeWork leases out large blocks of space in commercial buildings and then subleases them to smaller companies frequently tech startups.
    The real estate firm was valued at billion in July making it the fifth startup in the world.
    Chief among the changes for the new iPhones refreshed versions including a premium model priced at around according to people briefed on the product who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
    iPhone is still arguably the best phone for regular people who just want their device to work without having to worry about lots of technical settings or malware said Jan Dawson an independent analyst for Jackdaw Research.
    To further prove his point Apple engaged in a major legal battle last year with the resisting the request to weaken iPhone encryption for a criminal investigation.
    agreed to a billion investment from SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund part of an aggressive global expansion plan for the startup.
    New WeWork which rents office space to workers and SoftBank have been formalizing an alliance this summer that includes a million project in China and a joint venture in Japan.
    For WeWork SoftBank is investing an additional billion in three subsidiaries in China Japan and the Pacific region which includes Southeast Asia and South Korea.