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Apple Pulls WhatsApp From China Store at Beijing’s Behest

Apple Inc. removed social media services including <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018e-f4d9-d583-afbf-f6dd61c90001","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its Chinese app store, responding to orders from Beijing to close more loopholes in the country’s longstanding internet firewall.

Google Fires 28 Workers Protesting $1.2 Billion Israeli Contract

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Netflix Adds 9.33 Million Customers, Says Gains Will Slow

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DOJ Prosecutor Wants to Make Antitrust Relatable (Podcast)

Hetal Doshi is the top antitrust litigator at the Department of Justice and she says she tries to make the cases her team tries easy for the average person to understand. Doshi speaks on this episode of our podcast, On The Merits, about how this philosophy played into recent cases that blocked mergers in the airline and publishing industries, . Doshi also talks about the idea that antitrust laws are meant to protect not only consumers from higher prices, but also to protect workers from lower wages.

AI-Powered World Health Chatbot Is Flubbing Some Answers

The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/0751538D%20SW%20Equity","_id":"0000018e-f27a-d583-afbf-f2fe0ffe0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">World Health Organization is wading into the world of AI to provide basic health information through a human-like avatar. But while the bot responds sympathetically to users’ facial expressions, it doesn’t always know what it’s talking about.

Telehealth Is Booming During Covid. Is it Here to Stay?

Millions of Americans have taken advantage of telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic, so why has it taken so long for widespread adoption?

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