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Thursday, December 8, 2022 On December 6, 2022, the parties in the long-running litigation between now-defunct data analytics company hiQ Labs, Inc. (“hiQ”) and LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) filed a Stipulation and Proposed Consent Judgment (the “Stipulation”) with the California district court, indicating that they have reached a confidential settlement agreement resolving all outstanding claims in the case. This case has been a litigation odyssey of sorts, to the Supreme Court and back: it started with the original district court injunction in 2017, Ninth Circuit affirmance in 2019, Supreme Court vacating of the order in 2021, Ninth Circuit issuing a new order in April 2022 affirming the original injunction, and back again where we started, the lower court in August 2022 issuing an order dissolving the preliminary injunction, and the most recent mixed ruling on November 4th, 2022. It certainly has been one of the most heavily-litigated scraping cases in recent memory and has been closely followed on our blog. Practically speaking, though, the dispute had essentially reached its logical end with the last court ruling in November – hiQ had prevailed on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) “unauthorized access” issue related to public website data but was facing a ruling that it had breached LinkedIn’s User Agreement due

Written by Keely Quinlan Dec 8, 2022 | STATESCOOPThe National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Thursday announced another batch of broadband planning grants from the Biden administration’s “Internet for All” program, totaling nearly $67 million for 11 states and Washington, D.C. The announcements were the latest awards to come out of the $45 billion fund, which was created as part of last year’s infrastructure spending law. With Thursday’s awards, the NTIA has distributed nearly $150 million to 27 states and D.C. under the program. The grants draw on two components of the “Internet for All” program: the $2.5 billion Digital Equity Act, and the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment fund, the bulk of which will be distributed next year. The states included in Thursday’s funding announcement were Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia, in addition to D.C. The awards ranged between $2.9 million for Missouri and $6.6 million, which went to Pennsylvania. “Pennsylvania’s lack of affordable, accessible broadband is one of the biggest challenges holding our economy back,” Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said in a news release. “This $6.6 million is the beginning of a generational change waiting for Pennsylvanians. With

The Pentagon on Wednesday said it is awarding a key cloud computing contract to four big tech firms: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.Why it matters: The move hedges the military's bet and gives them access to all of the major cloud service providers.Catch up quick: The Pentagon initially awarded a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft in 2019. However, Amazon sued, saying that the Trump Administration's anti-Amazon bias had impacted the awarding of the contract.The Pentagon eventually voided the contract and launched the new bid, the results of which were announced Wednesday.What's next: The Pentagon has scheduled a press conference for Thursday to discuss the deal.

LinkedIn has announced some updated ad targeting options, as it works to align with evolving privacy regulations, while still providing optimal reach options for brand partners. First off, LinkedIn’s expanding its Group Identity audience targeting option to all ad types. Originally launched with selected partners last year, Group Identity enables you to target your ads based on LinkedIn data points. As explained by LinkedIn: “With Group Identity, we’re leveraging our first- and zero-party data, such as title, seniority, industry, interests, etc., to help you reach buying committees, measure your campaign performance, and optimize towards the objectives that matter to your business.” So you’re essentially putting more trust in LinkedIn’s system to get your ads in front of the right people, based on first-party attributes, as opposed to honing in your audience targeting through more specific, manually selected qualifiers. And it could be effective - LinkedIn says that Group Identity based campaigns have seen a 37% higher average click-through rate on group-delivered campaigns across channels. Again, it puts more trust in LinkedIn’s automated targeting and reach focus, but it may be worth considering once it's available in your ad set-up options. LinkedIn’s also testing more ways to integrate your first-party data

Stock futures were little changed Tuesday night.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 36 points, or 0.1% while S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures were each up 0.1%.In regular trading the Dow fell more than 350 points, or 1.03%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite lost 1.4% and 2%, respectively.The moves came as investors lost hope that the Federal Reserve will be able to engineer a soft landing. Instead, concerns swirled around the state of the economy and whether an economic downturn is approaching."Investors couldn't decide which they were more worried about: an impending recession, as implied by November declines for the ISM, Chicago PMI and Philly Fed, as well as housing data, or the threat of a more hawkish-leaning FOMC, as a result of stronger than expected employment data and factory orders," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research. "Stocks sold off across the board, as investors decided to take the profits generated by the last two monthly price gains, the first since August 2021."Investors await more economic data this week for clues on what to expect from the Fed. On Wednesday, the Mortgage Bankers Association will release its weekly report of mortgage loan applications.There are

Fortius Metals’ core team/Source: Fortius Metals Fortius Metals, Inc., Lafayette, Colorado, USA, a spinoff from Elementum 3D, has raised funding to accelerate its large-format additive manufacturing technology. Fortius closed a $2 million seed financing round with AM Ventures, the Langer Group’s venture capital arm to increase their manufacturing capacity and expand the company. Fortius Metals is a large-format Additive Manufacturing company that focuses on advanced materials to assist customers in developing solutions that were previously impossible to achieve with robotic AM. The patented technology of Fortius Metals is said to enable welding and AM wire fabrication using high-performance metal alloys to meet the stringent requirements of aerospace customers and robotic welding fabricators. Fortius welds are said to be twice as strong as incumbent commercial welding and additive manufacturing options, enhancing its ability to meet customer needs. Accelerating large-format Additive Manufacturing AM Venture, a venture capital firm for the additive manufacturing sector, focuses solely on Startups centred on industrial-grade AM offerings such as hardware, software, materials, and applications. AM Ventures’ portfolio consists of seventeen companies. “We are looking forward to supplying customers who are already requesting our proprietary 6061 aluminium welding wire that solves traditional ‘hot cracking’ problems. We are proud

Representational image | Commons Bengaluru: Looks like it’s easier to find a job in the IT capital of India without a LinkedIn profile, than renting a house. Exorbitant rents and links to your LinkedIn profile are among the various demands and conditions put forth by landlords and brokers nowadays. A sharp uptick has been witnessed in home rentals in recent months as companies recall their staff to work onsite after nearly two years of Covid-related disruptions that brought about the work from home (WFH) culture in Bengaluru and other large cities across the country. With the influx of white-collar workers, house owners are not just demanding higher rents, but also imposing conditions on the type of tenant they want, demanding their work profiles and insisting on the 10-month advance amount that was largely done away with early this year. For a house that comes with a Rs 50,000 per month price tag, the required advance amount would be Rs 5 lakh — a significant amount for mid- or low-level employees, according to home seekers. Also Read: High productivity, less gossip, but no work-life balance — WFH tales of Bengaluru techies Diverse demands Ruchita Chandrashekar has been on the look out for

Madi Kimball knew she wanted a career in film; she just didn’t know where to start. Lost and overwhelmed as her graduation approached, she applied to the Lumberjacks Thrive Externship Program in hopes of finding a mentor who could help guide her.  Facilitated by NAU’s Office of Alumni Engagement and thanks to NAU alumni Greg and Nancy Wilson, whose donation to the NAU Foundation brought this program to life, the Lumberjacks Thrive Program aims to help students apply their learning beyond the classroom and build meaningful relationships in their desired field. The semester-long mentorship pairs an NAU student with an NAU alum and business professional. Students virtually meet with their mentor once a month where they can ask questions, learn about the industry and get familiar with what a career in their field of study is like. Then, thanks to a series of grants and donations, the student gets to meet their mentor and spend multiple days shadowing them in their industry of work. Kimball was accepted into the program and paired with alumnus Bill Harper, a 1991 graduate of NAU’s theatre program who works in the TV and film industry—the last 11 years of which as an executive producer and writer for

Switch to Slide ShowSUMMARYTrends on SGX Nifty indicate an opening in the green for the Indian markets on Monday after a gain of 0.21 percent. Here are the 10 things you need to know before the opening bell on December 5:1 / 10Wall Street | Dow Jones Industrial Average index ended 0.10 percent higher on Friday. S&P 500 lost 1 percent while the tech-heavy Nasdaq witnessed 0.18 percent loss. (Image: Shutterstock)2 / 10Asian Equities | Japan's Nikkei gained 0.18 percent at 7:15 am on Monday while the Shanghai index was trading 0.68 percent higher. (Image: Shutterstock)3 / 10SGX Nifty | Trends on SGX Nifty suggest a positive start for the broader market in India with a gain of 0.21 percent. Nifty futures were trading at 18,864.5 on the Singaporean exchange at 7:30 am. (Image: Shutterstock)4 / 10Dalal Street | BSE Sensex fell 415.69 points or 0.66 percent to end at 62,868.50 while the broader NSE Nifty advanced 116.40 points or 0.62 percent to 18,696.10.5 / 10RBI | The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is all set to start its three-day meet on December 5 and will come out with its next bi-monthly policy review on December

Skip to content People protest against zero-covid in Beijing, November 27, 2022. Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images In the first two years of the global pandemic, China’s model of lockdowns, mass testing and algorithmically-driven quarantine provided an alternative path for controlling Covid that effectively restricted the virus’s spread. Yet last week’s protests across several Chinese cities have shown the limits of the model, as the economy weakens and anger at the government’s restrictive policies boils over.  A root problem in current policy making is that decisions are increasingly made with scant regard to reality on the ground. In particular, the government has ignored the importance of consumption to growth and especially employment, the limited capacity of local residential committees to impose Covid-related rules, and the great potential of global pharmaceutical companies to help China with their proven vaccines. Shifting policies — quickly — to take into account these realities may help the government weather this legitimacy crisis before it deepens beyond its control.Subscribe or login to read the rest. Subscribers get full access to: Exclusive longform investigative journalism, Q&As, news and analysis, and data on Chinese business elites and corporations. We publish China scoops you won't find anywhere