Category: Technology & Digitalization

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What Lina Khan’s antitrust case could mean for Amazon

On an internet forum in August, merchants who sell products on Amazon’s marketplace began speculating about the prospect of a lawsuit being brought against the ecommerce giant. There were “thousands of examples of abuses of sellers by Amazon,” one merchant alleged. Perhaps, the person added, it would be worth sellers collating their stories in support…
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29 September 2023 0

US Supreme Court to hear cases over free speech and social media

Receive free Social Media updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Social Media news every morning. The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a pair of cases asking it to decide whether controversial social media laws in Texas and Florida violate free-speech rights by prohibiting platforms such as…
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29 September 2023 0

Electronic Arts kicks off rebranded football video game with strong demand

Receive free Gaming updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Gaming news every morning. Electronic Arts’ decision to cut ties with Fifa and rebrand one of the world’s most popular video games appeared on Friday to have paid off, with early demand for its flagship football franchise well up…
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29 September 2023 0

Tech entrepreneur Niklas Zennström: ‘Let’s break the Silicon Valley monopoly’

The Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström has much in common with your typical Silicon Valley tech billionaire. A life-changing fortune made at lightning speed before the age of 40? Tick. An overenthusiastic tendency to evangelise about how start-ups can put a dent in the universe? Tick. A love of bobbing up and down on an ostentatious…
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29 September 2023 0

Rate shocks and growth stocks

Good morning. Yesterday, long bond prices stopped falling, and everyone exhaled. Kate Duguid, our fearless colleague from the bond desk, will survey the fixed-income wreckage in Unhedged on Monday, while Ethan and I are away. In the meantime, email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com. Rate shocks and growth stocks I’ve argued at some length recently that there is…
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29 September 2023 0

UK pushes for greater access to AI’s inner workings to assess risks

Receive free Artificial intelligence updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Artificial intelligence news every morning. The UK is pushing companies, including OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind, for unprecedented access to the technology that drives their artificial intelligence models as Downing Street prepares to host a pioneering global AI summit.…
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29 September 2023 0

Linda Yaccarino set to present new plan to long-suffering X bankers

Receive free X Corp updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest X Corp news every morning. Linda Yaccarino is next week planning to meet the seven banks that helped bankroll Elon Musk’s takeover of X, formerly known as Twitter, to lay out her plans to revive the struggling social…
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28 September 2023 0

How high, and for how long?

The markets tried denying that the Federal Reserve really would keep rates “higher for longer”. But in the past week, equities and debt finally seemed to accept that high interest rates are here to stay. That means changes in the prices of assets, but it also has a lot of implications for everyone from tech…
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28 September 2023 0

The AI rush for the iPhone moment

Receive free Inside Business updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Inside Business news every morning. Listening to Mark Zuckerberg this week, it has been hard not to conclude that when it comes to artificial intelligence, much of the tech industry is throwing whatever new ideas it can think…
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28 September 2023 0

Thousands of Apple customers complain latest iPhone models are overheating

Receive free Apple Inc updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Apple Inc news every morning. Thousands of Apple customers have complained that the latest iPhone models are overheating, a week after they debuted with cutting-edge chips. Some buyers of the new iPhone 15 Pro and its larger Pro…
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