Six more women sue Tesla over workplace sexual harassment
In the wake of Jessica Barraza's lawsuit last month, six more current and former female employees have come forward to accuse Tesla of fostering a culture of rampant sexual harassment at its Fremont factory in California. In separate complaints filed on Tuesday with the Superior Court in Alame
Europe's final push on the Digital Markets Act must include default settings
Europe has a deeply uneven tech playing field. But as members of the European Parliament prepare to vote in plenary on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) on Wednesday, there's a chance to correct this course.
MEPs must sustain significant progress made within the legislation, such as with regard to
YouTube TV warns customers they may lose access to 18 Disney-owned channels by week’s end
Fresh on the heels of resolving its months-long carriage dispute with Roku, YouTube now finds itself on the other side of the negotiating table. The company today warned its YouTube TV streaming subscribers they may lose access to all Disney-owned channels by the end of the week if the two companie
Cube RM raises $8M round, led by Runa, to create global government tenders platform
There are millions of tenders and public sector contracts published every year by governments globally. The value of all this is estimated to be about $5 billion, and is expected to reach $9 billion by 2025. And of course, the pandemic has supercharged the need for digitized government procurement.
Gift Guide: 5 gifts for all of us needing less screen time
"">Welcome to technewss's 2021 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We've got lots of them. Check back from now until the end of December for more!
This is a year where we’ve all had to reconsider our relationship with tech. Social media has finally been put on trial for i
Apple and Google’s mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action
The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog has given the clearest signal yet that interventions under an upcoming reform of the country’s competition rules will target tech giants Apple and Google — including their duopolistic command of the mobile market, via iOS and Android; their respective
Daily Crunch: Web3 project tool Thirdweb closes $5M round with help from Mark Cuban, Gary Vaynerchuk
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, December 13! The theme of today is crypto, or web3 if you prefer that rebranding. Why? Because it turns out that an
Mozilla expects to generate more than $500M in revenue this year
The Mozilla Foundation today released its financial report for 2020. As usual, this gives us a good picture of the organization’s financial health from a year ago, but for the first time this year, Mozilla also provided us with more recent data.
It’s no secret that Mozilla recently went
Gillmor Gang: Beatlesverse
Well, it turns out the Beatles didn’t get broken up by Yoko after all. But Peter Jackson may have gotten closer. His Get Back movie seemed to be so far over the top that even Beatlemaniacs like myself had had enough. But no. On this edition of the Gang, we still can’t stop talking abou
It’s time for democracies to protect dissidents from spyware
The technewss Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics.
Governments that purchase spyware tend to share a common pretext: the need to fight terrorist and other public safety threats. But we know that when autocratic reg
Startups Weekly (Taylor's Version)
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Taylor Swift is rerecording all of her albums, but not
What I unlearned about startups this year
Taylor Swift has impeccable timing. First, she released “Red,” an album about heartbreak and hurt, while I was in the thick of high school. My now-retired Tumblr is still thankful. More recently, Swift took on a project to rerecord her earlier albums, reclaiming her music from her old record la
Daily Crunch: After ‘very regrettable events,’ Better.com CEO Vishal Garg will take time off
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for December 10, 2021! Yes, it is Friday at last, which means we're about one week away from news grinding to a halt so that
3 views: The new decentralized venture landscape is changing how we report startup data
Where is Silicon Valley, really?
In 2021, it’s no longer a Bay Area hub backed by Sand Hill Road investors — it’s everywhere. The decentralization of capital to emerging ecosystems has done more than empower local entrepreneurs to raise that follow-on round, it’s also changed ou