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...Not long after he met Donald Trump in the mid-1990s, the publishing executive David Pecker came up with an idea that seemed perfectly designed to appeal to the future US president’s ego and penchant for...
...Finally, since it’s summer, thanks to The New Yorker for publishing a new David Sedaris essay. Beach reading rarely gets better than this. Rana Foroohar is on leave and will return in September....
...“There is a Project Dragonfly,” Keith Enright, Google’s chief privacy officer, told a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, in response to questions from Senator Ted Cruz....
...As chief executive of American Media Inc, the 65-year-old Bronx native dominated the US tabloid world, blasting headlines that took aim at the likes of John Edwards, Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton — and catching...
...The unsuccessful ploy damaged the company’s reputation and undid previous attempts to take a lead on responsible drug pricing by publishing a “social contract” that pledged to limit annual increases....
...Google, the owner of YouTube, has kept a lower profile, quietly meeting the intelligence committee in private and rolling out a change to the algorithm that ranks news videos, but not publishing any grand...
...bipartisan group of lawmakers is proposing a bill to amend part of the Communications Decency Act — which now shields internet companies from liability for user conduct — in order to hold websites liable for publishing...
...bill that was debated at a Senate hearing on Tuesday would modify an exemption internet companies currently enjoy from criminal liability for illegal actions by their users, instead making them liable for publishing...
...– How HBO’s Silicon Valley built “Not Hotdog”… – Guardian longread: Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?...
...When Google or Facebook are accused of publishing illegal incitements to violence they claim, straight-faced, that they are not media companies at all....
...A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Baker received her BA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley and her JD from Berkeley Law....
...“Casinos are being used as a conduit” to finance lawbreaking, said Martini Cruz, NBI cyber crime head....
...Silicon Valley companies started publishing its diversity figures, on women and ethnic minorities, in 2014, hoping that transparency would lead to an improvement in the numbers....
...The pattern has been repeated in music, book publishing, and television and film, with labels, imprints and studios having to contend with powerful entrants such as Amazon and Netflix....
...That would require not only dominance, which Amazon has established only in electronic book publishing, but evidence of stifling competition and harming consumers....
...Earlier this year, more than 30 tech companies including Airbnb signed a pledge to promote inclusion in the workplace, by publishing an annual diversity report with specific diversity targets....
Online media group buckles under $140m Hulk Hogan lawsuit financed by Peter Thiel
Scale of $140m Hulk Hogan ruling highlights digital media vulnerability
...More than 30 companies have signed a “Tech inclusion pledge”, which includes publishing annual data on the composition of their workforce, divided by function and seniority, and publishing goals to recruit...
...In April, its iTunes Movies and iBooks services became unavailable in China amid new government restrictions on publishing online material....
...As a child growing up in Santa Cruz, California, ballet was her extracurricular pursuit....
...out of national newspapers taking place as has happened in the regional press.Roy Greenslade in The Guardian goes further, saying “it is simply a matter of time before it becomes unprofitable to continue publishing...
...Related links: 21 Inc and the plan to kill the free internet – FT Alphaville When a man cannot choose, is he still a consumer?...
...The directives, which entered force last week, give China’s government draconian powers to stop foreign companies from publishing online material unless they have approval from the broadcast regulator....
...The severest punishments may not make it into law — even now, anyone publishing a map of India “not in conformity” with the official ones can be jailed for six months — but parts of the governing Bharatiya...
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