Daily Crunch: Big tech responds to antitrust report

The House Judiciary Committee released its tech antitrust report late yesterday, concluding that the big tech platforms should face additional regulation.

Recommendations include creating new separations to prevent dominant platforms from operating in adjacent lines of business, new requirements for interoperability and data portability and increased restrictions on mergers and acquisitions.

But they have prompted forceful responses from four of the companies targeted by the report: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

Amazon, for example, dismissed the committees views as fringe notions and regulatory spitballing, while Apple said it vehemently disagrees with the reports conclusions.

Google Assistant gets an incognito-like guest mode With Guest mode on, Google Assistant wont offer personalized responses and your interactions wont be saved to your account.

Slack introduces new features to ease messaging between business partners One new feature: Slack Connect DMs, allowing users inside an organization to collaborate with anyone outside their company simply by sending an invite.

Instagrams Threads app now lets you message everyone, like its Direct app once did These changes are rolling out shortly after a major update to Instagrams messaging platform.

DoorDash introduces a new corporate product, DoorDash for Work DoorDash says it conducted a survey of 1,000 working Americans last month and found that 90% of them said they miss at least one food-related benefit from the office.

Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna shares her perspective on COVID-19 and CRISPR CRISPR co-discoverer Jennifer Doudna was named a Nobel laureate in Chemistry today, so it seemed like the perfect time to post video of our interview at Disrupt.

Tech-publisher coalition backs new push for browser-level privacy controls A coalition of privacy-forward tech companies, publishers and advocacy groups has taken the wraps off of an initiative to develop a new standard that gives internet users a simple way to put digital guardrails around their data.

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Author: Anthony Ha

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