Annie Palmer / CNBC: A fifth defendant plans to plead guilty to the DOJ’s charges in 2020 regarding a conspiracy to bribe Amazon staff to give sellers unfair marketplace advantages  —  – A well-known consultant for Amazon sellers admitted to bribing staffers employed by the retail giant for information to help his clients. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Haun / Wall Street Journal: In the US, regulators are choking the crypto industry, but major policy decisions should be made by Congress and state legislatures, not by unelected officials  —  The effort would stifle American innovation and competition—and that seems to be the objective.  —  WSJ Opinion: Congress Hammers TikTok Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fiona Alston / Tech.eu: Germany-based OQmented, which is developing laser beam scanning technology for AR/MR glasses, raised a $20M Series A from Sharp Devices Europe and others  —  The German firm’s ultra-compact MEMS-based laser beam scanning projection display systems for AR glasses has come into focus as tech giant Sharp invests Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: The CFTC’s case vs. Binance is mainly about US clients, like high-frequency trading firms in NYC and Chicago, using an unregistered crypto derivatives exchange  —  Binance  —  A decent rule of thumb is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes, and if you’re lucky your exchange is doing only process crimes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Lyft cofounders Logan Green and John Zimmer will step down from day-to-day roles as CEO and president in April; former Amazon exec David Risher will become CEO  —  – Lyft’s cofounders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, will step back from their day-to-day roles as CEO and president, respectively. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: A look at the non-consensual deepfake porn economy, from finding services in top Google results to boosting them via ad campaigns on social networks and Pornhub  —  The nonconsensual deepfake economy has remained largely out of sight, but it’s easily accessible and some creators can accept major credit cards. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: A fifth defendant pleads guilty to charges brought by the DOJ in 2020 regarding a conspiracy to bribe Amazon staff to give sellers unfair marketplace advantages  —  – A well-known consultant for Amazon sellers admitted to bribing staffers employed by the retail giant for information to help his clients. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Many of the top VPN services and mobile apps, some with 100M+ downloads, have misled users about their practices or disguised their origins, like ties to China  —  SAN FRANCISCO — As Congress weighs an unprecedented ban of the wildly popular Chinese-owned TikTok over supposed security concerns … Lees verder op Tech Meme