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Telecommunications Defy Forecasts by Spending Billions Less in Canada Spectrum Auction (Bloomberg)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Fri, 12/01/2023 - 15:16Nvidia CEO Says US Will Take Years to Achieve Chip Independence (Bloomberg)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/30/2023 - 06:37Meta Loses Bid to Push FTC Into Court on Privacy Deal (Bloomberg)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/27/2023 - 15:32The Rush for Fiber Is Strangling Telecommunications Companies From Louisiana to Lisbon
Telecommunications and cable companies are emerging as some of the biggest losers of the high interest rate era. Buoyed by a sudden increase in demand, many firms took on vast amounts of credit to boost spending on increasing download speeds through expensive fiber rollouts. Now, changing consumer behaviors are causing turmoil and pushing companies in the US and Europe to invest in new infrastructure.
Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, is stepping down (Bloomberg)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 11/15/2023 - 15:34China Claims World’s Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit-Per-Second Network (Bloomberg)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/15/2023 - 06:27Apple Gets 36 Percent of Google Revenue in Search Deal (Bloomberg)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/13/2023 - 15:12Opinion | AI’s Rise Flags Need for Federal Privacy and Security Protection (Bloomberg)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 10:24Google’s 2019 ‘Code Yellow’ Blurred Line Between Search, Ads
The former head of search at Google told colleagues in February 2019 that his team was “getting too involved with ads for the good of the product and company,” according to emails shown at the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust trial against the company. Google maintains a firewall between its ads and search teams so that its engineers can innovate on Google’s search engine, unsullied by the influence of the team whose goal is to maximize advertising revenue.