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The FCC is preparing to restore net neutrality in the US

TechSpot

The US implemented net neutrality rules at the national level during the Obama Administration in 2015. These rules classified internet broadband as "telecommunication services" under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act, which regulated ISPs as common carriers or utilities.

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WebMD will pay $75M to acquire employee experience company Limeade

GeekWire

Limeade reported a net loss of $3 million in its most recent quarter, down from a net loss of $6.4 WebMD is a subsidiary of digital media giant Internet Brands , which acquired the company in 2017 for nearly $3 billion. The company made its initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2019.

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How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

Vox

The internet is full of terrible corners, but none are as skin-crawling as what you see when you open a new account on TikTok. There are a lot of people who’ve had their hard work repackaged for profit, and I fear it’s ultimately going to be a net negative for the whole ecosystem of people who create and tell stories.”. Getty Images.

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Beyond pays $4.5M to acquire Zulily brand, plans to relaunch flash sale site later this year

GeekWire

QVC parent Qurate acquired Zulily in 2015 for $2.4 billion in 2023, down 19% year-over-year, and a net loss of $308 million. “I did not join this company to be a peddler of products on the Internet,” Lemonis said on an earnings call with analysts last month. Beyond reported full-year revenue of $1.6

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The Lottery Run on Blockchain

Galido

million families in over 125 countries, with net assets of 100 million. The Internet we use today is the Internet of information, and the blockchain is the Internet of value – the Internet is a communications protocol, while the other is a value exchange protocol. The charity has helped over 15.5

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OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex

The Verge

Codex is built on the top of GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generation model , which was trained on a sizable chunk of the internet, and as a result can generate and parse the written word in impressive ways. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem”. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem,” says Brockman. “At

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 Li originally joined the firm in 2015 as an associate and was previously a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

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