Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Several more Chinese tech companies round out the top slots: Baidu , which runs Chinas top search engine, started offering driverless taxi services last summer in select cities and is already outperforming Googles Waymo robotaxis where it operates. A handful of 2025 honorees focus on ecological innovations. Apollo Go provided approximately 1.1

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Nextdoor is discontinuing a feature that allows users to forward their posts directly to local police departments. Rumors about buses full of anti-fascist activists known as antifa coming to cities across the United States spread through local Facebook groups as well as on Nextdoor and community texting networks. Brian Fung / CNN).

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Earlier this month, local residents protested the police unit, and demanded Facebook cease funding the Menlo Park Police Department. As local governments ease shelter-in-place restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic, they’re relying on contact tracing apps to help stop the spread of the disease. Elizabeth Cohen / CNN).

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

The attacks came from Iran and China, respectively. The Biden campaign was targeted by a China-based group, known as APT 31, Mr. Huntley said. Now, local officials across the state have acknowledged that not a single participant in the protests was known to have defiled a home or storefront in the name of antifa. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Trending up : Facebook is investing $5 million in local news organizations that serve historically marginalized communities. They were driven by US-China tensions, commercial rivalries, and President Trump’s personal interventions. And they deserve better answers than Sophie Zhang has gotten to date. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Last month it hired the prominent executive Kevin Mayer away from Disney to be TikTok’s CEO, giving ByteDance a face of the American business establishment to go before Congress and ask questions about how the Communist Party of China might plan to use TikTok as part of an influence campaign. Dave Gershgorn / OneZero ).

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

You may be skeptical this might happen, but again, China has already demonstrated a willingness to censor speech on a platform banned in China; how much of a leap is it to think that a Party committed to ideological dominance will forever leave a route directly into the hearts and minds of millions of Americans untouched?

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Apple is facing its toughest environment in China in years amid the decline of US-China relations. Apple operates the App Store in China without government licenses and local partners, but it’s having to walk an increasingly difficult line between placating Chinese officials and not triggering a backlash back home.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

The Phoenix-based owner of a shoe-and-leather store wrote in a local newspaper he was “amazed and a little dumbfounded” by regulators’ campaign to “change how digital platforms operate.”. That led the director of Google’s threat analysis group to tweet , “This is the same company that was routing calls through through China right?” (It

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

TikTok and WeChat are being lumped together in the Trump’s administration’s attempt to crack down on national security threats from China. He believes China and ByteDance are playing the long game. It’s all a localization strategy, which allows you to not only achieve relevance but respect,” he said.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Because it’s going to be worse – we’re going to have to give China billions of dollars for the privilege of having TikTok operate on US soil.”. As recently as April, Zoom was caught rerouting external video calls through China , a behavior far more serious than anything we’ve seen from TikTok.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

China emphasized its power in the TikTok sale, saying it has the right to approve or block the sale of technology abroad. The firm is said to be assembling a group of investors, and is actively looking for local partners. I have no doubt it will make Facebook a better place to work. Megan Wyatt / The Acadiana Advocate ). Bloomberg).

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

The trade war with China shows no signs of ending — or even de-escalating — this year. Facebook announced a new policy to crack down on political content disguised as local news, but it’s not as strict as it appears. And yet — how likely does it seem to you that ByteDance will ultimately have that option? Ben Collins / NBC).

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Trending up : Google is giving 5,300 local newsrooms around the world funding to survive the pandemic. ByteDance is shifting TikTok ’s power out of China amid ongoing regulatory scrutiny. Kuaishou , the second-largest social video app in China, is launching an app in the US to challenge TikTok. Alex Heath / The Information).

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Just to be blunt about it, I think there is a model coming out of countries like China that tend to have very different values than Western countries that are more democratic,” he said. Local politicians believe there are more than 100 cases. Instead it all just bleeds together into partisan noise. Kim Lyons / The Verge ). Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different products,” he wrote. Trending down : The fees that Amazon imposes on sellers make it nearly impossible for them to sustain a profitable business, according to a report from the Institute of Local Self-Reliance. Governing. ?

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit encouraged militiamen to head to Kenosha, Washington, ostensibly to protect local businesses from protesters. local time, the administrator of the “ Kenosha Guard ” page asked if any members were willing to “take up arms and defend out [ sic ] City tonight from the evil thugs.” Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

China is moving quickly to launch a similar idea in the coming months,” he warned. “If Later that year, he said that it was important not to let China set the rules for the internet in the rest of the world, arguing that the country’s values aren’t democratic. If America doesn’t innovate, our financial leadership is not guaranteed.”

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