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Tech antitrust hearing: the important moments and what comes next

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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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