Mark Zuckerberg on Friday responded to Facebook employees who were upset over the company's decision to not moderate or take down a controversial post in which President Donald Trump said "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
Germany delivery service Delivery Hero and Netherlands-based Just Eat Takeaway.com are interested in merging with Grubhub, adding competition to Uber which has struggled to finalize a deal.
Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian on Friday announced his resignation from the company's board, saying he was stepping down and urging the company to replace him with a black person.
National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell released a recorded video to admit the league was "wrong" for not listening to players who protested against social injustice and police brutality.
Critics have said that Google bundles its ad tools so that rivals can't afford to match its offerings and that its operation of search results, YouTube, Gmail and other services hinder ad competition. Google has argued it has a slew of ad-tech competitors.
SoftBank's $100 million Opportunity Fund for minority-owned businesses is one of the first large funds created in response to nationwide protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd. But it's about 0.1% the size of SoftBank's Vision Fund, which has made few investments in companies run by black founders or women.
Media organizations and technology platforms should more clearly define their purposes to exist as they try to balance open dialogue with offensive and misleading speech.
The government on Tuesday introduced a $6.6 billion incentive scheme for international and local companies to ramp up their electronics manufacturing production in India.
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