The Technology 202: Silicon Valley didn't see Brett Kavanaugh coming on antitrust issues
Facebook told Wagner its decision to increase wages is not a direct response to negative press coverage. “We started this process middle of last year,” Janelle Gale, Facebook’s vice president of human resources, told Wagner. “Way before those articles came out.”
NIBBLES: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said yesterday that dismantling companies like Facebook is “something we should take a really hard look at," He added it would be"premature" to make a final judgement -- stopping short of embracing a proposal from his rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren to break up Big Tech.
Regardless of whether Facebook is broken up, Biden told the AP the Trump administration hasn't done enough to enforce antitrust laws across industries. BYTES: Amazon is rolling out machines that will automate boxing up customer orders, a job currently held by thousands of its warehouse workers, The technology scans goods coming down a conveyor belt and packs them shortly after in boxes custom-built for each item. Amazon has mulled installing the machines at dozens more warehouses, removing at least 24 positions at each one.
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