☁️ Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud

Plus: Twitter sues India's Government, Crypto's last man standing, and more…

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Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud. The pandemic period has been a boon for the trio of companies that dominate cloud computing. Now as the economy enters another tumultuous phase, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google appear poised to extend their strength. The three companies… (Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal)

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

Amazon, Microsoft and Google account for about two-thirds of cloud spending and are using their size to maintain their hold on the rapidly growing market on.wsj.com/3OMBDmB

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Twitter, Challenging Orders to Remove Content, Sues India's Government. Twitter, Challenging Orders to Remove Content, Sues India’s Government The company’s move echoes legal action last year by WhatsApp, which had been instructed to make its messages traceable to outside parties. That case is still pending. (Karan Deep Singh / The New York Times)

Karan Deep Singh @Karan_Singhs

Breaking: Twitter said on Tuesday that it has sued the Indian government, pushing back against recent orders to remove content and block accounts within the country. We will be updating!

nytimes.comTwitter, Challenging Orders to Remove Content, Sues India’s GovernmentTwitter’s lawsuit is part of a broadening battle between the biggest tech companies and governments around the world over who gets to control information and how.

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Crypto's last man standing. Two years ago scarcely anyone in mainstream finance had heard of Sam Bankman-Fried, or ftx, the cryptocurrency exchange he launched in 2019. Both gained greater prominence, first as the crypto craze reached fever pitch and then as crypto fell to… (The Economist)

The Economist @TheEconomist

Is Sam Bankman-Fried the John Pierpont Morgan of crypto?

econ.stCrypto’s last man standingIs Sam Bankman-Fried the John Pierpont Morgan of crypto?

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Senate Intelligence Committee Calls On FTC To Investigate TikTok For 'Deception'. The Senate Intelligence Committee has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking that it open an investigation into whether TikTok misled U.S. lawmakers about China-based employees of its parent company, ByteDance, accessing American user… (Emily Baker-White / Forbes)

Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite

Today, @MarkWarner and @marcorubio sent a letter on behalf of the Senate Intelligence Committee to @linakhanFTC asking that the Federal Trade Commission investigate TikTok for deceiving lawmakers about China-based employees' access to US user data.

forbes.comSenate Intelligence Committee Calls On FTC To Investigate TikTok For ‘Deception’The committee cited BuzzFeed News reporting that China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, had repeatedly accessed sensitive US user data.

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Amazon takes a Prime step back into restaurant delivery in the US with new Grubhub investment and partnership. Image Credits: Christine McCann / Getty Images Amazon tried but then ultimately stepped away from building its own cost-intensive Grubhub and DoorDash competitor in the U.S. back in 2019. Now three years on, it's taking a different approach to… (Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch)

Ingrid @ingridlunden

JET is still looking for a full buyer for Grubhub but in the meantime Amazon, forever looking for more Prime perks and a re-entry point to restaurant delivery, is taking a big bite out of it (worth around $1B pending performance). tip @Techmeme

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Amazon takes a Prime step back into restaurant delivery in the US with new Grubhub investment and partnership https://t.co/V1hfuLNGox by @ingridlunden

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