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The announcement:

Today, we fined Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position. Qualcomm illegally shut out rivals from the market for LTE baseband chipsets for over five years, after signing an agreement with Apple.

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AT&T already canceled the deal with Huawei and now Verizon is suffering from similar pressure to do the same.

The AT&T deal died a few weeks after members of the U.S. Senate and House intelligence committees wrote to the Federal Communications Commission raising concerns about reports that Huawei had struck a deal with a major telecommunications carrier. The Dec. 20 letter, reviewed by The Information, cited an intelligence committee report on the Chinese firm’s alleged ties to the Communist Party and China’s intelligence and security services. “Additional work by the Intelligence Committees on this topic only reinforces concerns regarding Huawei and Chinese espionage,”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-at-t-huawei-tech/huaweis-att-u-s-smartphone-deal-collapses-idUSKBN1EX29E

A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance

We’ve been hearing feedback from our customers about the way we handle performance for iPhones with older batteries and how we have communicated that process. We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize. There’s been a lot of misunderstanding about this issue, so we would like to clarify and let you know about some changes we’re making.

First and foremost, we have never — and would never — do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades. Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that UBER is a transportation firm and not a digital company. The verdict will have major implications for how Uber is regulated throughout Europe. "The service provided by Uber connecting individuals with non-professional drivers is covered by services in the field of transport," the ECJ said. "Member states can therefore regulate the conditions for providing that service," it added.

Facebook wants your kids addicted early, and don’t want them to go to snapchat, that’s why Facebook ‘Messenger Kids’ lets under-13s chat with whom parents approve.

WeWork currently has 150,000 members across 171 locations in 18 countries. Meetup, on the other hand, boasts 32.3 million members in 182 countries.

Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman reportedly told employees about the acquisition on Monday, and mentioned a $30 million figure, but it's not clear "if that was an acquisition price, or a reference to expected investment into his company from the acquiring entity," according to Crunchbase.

WeWork confirmed the acquisition on Tuesday morning. The company said Meetup would continue to operate as a standalone company for now.

Google launched a Data management app for android phones called Datally helps you do three things:

Understand your data. See your usage on a hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis and get personalized recommendations for how you can save more.

Control your data. Turn on the Data Saver bubble to block background data usage and track real-time data usage while using each of your apps—it’s like a speedometer for your data. You can also block data with one tap if an app’s data usage gets out of control.

Save your data. Sometimes you just need a little more than what you’ve got on your data plan. Datally will tell you if you’re near public Wi-Fi and help you connect. Once you’re done, don’t forget to rate the network quality to help other users.

link to the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.freighter

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