Category Archives: Google
FANG Stocks Tumble To 1-Week Lows
FANG stocks are down almost 3% from yesterday’s opening highs, extending losses quickly today to one-week lows. Having managed to scramble and short-squeeze its way back to the ledge before the tech-wreck, FANG stocks are stumbling hard since yesterday morning’s opening panic… Netflix continues to lead the charge lower and while Facebook managed to […]
The Age Of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear
Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ? William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966) The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it considers […]
Apple Responds To Google-Avis, Announces Deal With Hertz To “Manage Autonomous Fleet”
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Jun 26, 2017 2:27 PM Several hours after Alphabet announced that Waymo, its self-driving unit, has reached an agreement for Avis Budget Group to manage its fleet of autonomous vehicles (which includes Avis changing the cars’ oil and letting them park in its lots), unleashing a furious short squeeze within the fleet/rental space, […]
Democratic-Party-Aligned Firm Behind Debunked “Russia Dossier” Stonewalls Senate Investigators
A Democratic Party-aligned opposition research firm is stonewalling Congressional investigators who are trying to ascertain exactly who financed the now-debunked “Russia dossier” – remember? The one that claimed germaphobe Trump enjoyed getting urinated on by Russian hookers? The New York Post’s Paul Sperry is out with another report about Fusion GPS, a “research and strategic intelligence […]
Visualizing The Jeff Bezos Empire In One Giant Chart
With a fortune largely tied to his 78.9 million shares of Amazon, the net worth of Jeff Bezos continues to be on the rise. Just days ago, Amazon shares reached all-time highs after the company’s ambitious acquisition of Whole Foods. This puts Bezos just $4 billion away from displacing Bill Gates as the world’s number […]
Google Promises To Bury “Questionable” Content On YouTube
The issue of filtering out content that advocates or glorifies terrorism on widely-used media sites like Alphabet’s YouTube has come under renewed scrutiny since authorities learned that 23-year-old Salman Abedi was radicalized after watching videos of an American preacher posted on the site. So unsurprisingly, barely two weeks after UK Prime Minister Theresa May accused […]
With New Patent, Amazon Will Collect As Much Customer Data As Google
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Jun 18, 2017 A day after Amazon announced it would jump head-long into the bricks-and-mortar grocery business by agreeing to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.4 billion, reports from earlier this week about a new patent issued to the company are starting to make more sense. The patent, which was first […]
Ron Paul Interviews Snowden On The “Rise Of The Deep State”
In a discussion with Edward Snowden on his weekly “Liberty Report," Ron Paul and the former NSA contractor trace the genesis of the so-called Deep State, and discuss how the US intelligence community uses covert programs like those exposed by Snowden in 2013 to trample individual freedoms. The most sinister quality of the Deep State, Snowden […]