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Tech antitrust hearing: the important moments and what comes next

Tech antitrust hearing: the important moments and what comes next

FromThe Vergecast


Tech antitrust hearing: the important moments and what comes next

FromThe Vergecast

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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Jul 31, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Nilay, Makena, Adi, and Casey discuss the important moments from Congress' antitrust hearing with Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s Sundar Pichai.
Stories discussed this week:

Antivirus: A weekly digest of the latest COVID-19 research

Kodak is branching out into pharmaceuticals with US investment

Twitter forced Donald Trump Jr. to delete tweet spreading COVID-19 misinformation

Moms in Tech Facebook group splintering over allegations of racism

Google will keep employees working remotely until July 2021

NASA’s life-hunting Mars rover is officially on its way to the Red Planet

Tech antitrust hearing: all the news, updates, and documents from Congress’ big moment

Everything you need to know from the tech antitrust hearing

What Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple have in common

Antitrust panel says the messages show Zuckerberg trying to buy out his competition

Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

Google’s business model ‘is the problem,’ David Cicilline says

The iconic Flip Video almost became Google’s first camera, emails show

Amazon bought Ring for market position, not technology, emails suggest

Read Steve Jobs’ emails about why you can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps

Facebook usage and revenue continue to grow as the pandemic rages on

Google parent company Alphabet sees its first revenue decline in history

Apple reports strong Mac and iPad sales in record-breaking Q3 earnings


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Released:
Jul 31, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. And on Tuesdays, Nilay hosts in-depth, one-on-one interviews with major technology leaders. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.