Antitrust Battles: Facebook Under Scrutiny

I try to give you the outlines of the Facebook antitrust thing, and what it might mean for tech. Airbnb makes its market debut. Crunchyroll finds a safe home away from AT&T. I bet folks at HBO are jealous. Boston Dynamics finds a new guardian as well, that hopefully can find something useful for it to do. And it really is, finally, the end of the road for Flash.

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Links:

• The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp (The Verge)
• Lawsuits Filed by the FTC and the State Attorneys General Are Revisionist History (Facebook Newsroom)
• Airbnb shares set to double in IPO — likely to be worth nearly $93 billion (CNBC)
• Sony’s Funimation acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion (Polygon)
• Hyundai Motors Reportedly Bought Boston Dynamics For Almost $1 Billion (Gizmodo)
• Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 (ZDNet)

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