The worldwide cloud market grew at a robust clip in the first quarter, and the big three vendors dominated, according to a new report released by Canalys. Cloud Spending Maintains Red-Hot Pace First-quarter cloud infrastructure spending climbed 34 percent year-over-year and about 12 percent from the previous quarter to $55.9 billion, Canalys said. The top three…
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Google Urges Court to Scrap $1.6 Billion EU Antitrust Fine
BRUSSELS—Alphabet unit Google on Monday urged Europe’s second-highest court to dismiss a 1.49-billion-euro ($1.6 billion) fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators three years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising. The case is one of three that has resulted in a total of 8.25 billion euros in European Union antitrust fines on the world’s…
Wikipedia Organization Ceases Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations
May 3, 2022
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The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and several other “Wiki”-branded online reference tools, announced on May 1 that it would no longer accept donations in the form of cryptocurrency, citing ethical and environmental concerns about the payments using blockchain currencies. The decision follows from a proposal by longtime Wikipedia editor Molly White,…
Amazon Workers Reject Unionization at Second Staten Island Warehouse Election
Workers at a Staten Island Amazon Warehouse rejected a motion for unionization on Monday, just one month after a neighboring Amazon warehouse in Staten Island became the first in the United States to form a workers’ union. In the recent union election at Amazon’s LDJ5 sort center in Staten Island, workers voted 680 to 318…
The Price of Free Speech: The Twitter Takeover
Elon Musk, a self-described “free-speech absolutist,” sealed an agreement last week to acquire Twitter for $44 billion. The deal, which will be one of the largest takeovers in recent years, has inspired some to quip that the world’s richest man is spending billions of dollars to buy free speech. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX…
Tucker Carlson Responds to 20,000-Word NY Times Story Calling Him ‘American Nationalist’
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he won’t read and isn’t planning on reading several New York Times articles about his career and show content. On Sunday, the NY Times published a lengthy series online and featured it prominently on the front page of its website, dubbing Carlson an “American Nationalist,” replete with heavily edited,…
11 NBC Articles Plagiarized, Unclear if Reporter Fired
A NBC News reporter plagiarized rival news outlets for 11 different articles, the company announced on May 2. NBC said a review uncovered 11 articles written over the last year by a reporter “that did not meet our standards for original material.” “The articles contained passages from other news organizations that were used without attribution,”…
NBC Published 11 Articles With Plagiarized Content
NBC News published nearly a dozen articles with plagiarized material, the company announced on May 2. NBC said a review uncovered 11 articles written over the last year by a reporter “that did not meet our standards for original material.” “The articles contained passages from other news organizations that were used without attribution,” the company…
Wall Street Journal Claims ‘Shadow Crew’ of Billionaires Urged Elon Musk to Buy Twitter
Elon Musk responded on May 1 to a report from The Wall Street Journal, based on anonymous sources, that stated the world’s richest man had been persuaded to buy Twitter by a “shadow crew.” Marc Andreessen, general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, shared a screenshot of the story on Twitter, prompting a…
Wall Street Journal Claims ‘Shadow Crew’ of Billionaires Urged Musk to Buy Twitter
Elon Musk responded on May 1 to a report from The Wall Street Journal, based on anonymous sources, that stated the world’s richest man had been persuaded to buy Twitter by a “shadow crew.” Marc Andreessen, general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, shared a screenshot of the story on Twitter, prompting a…
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