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Netflix on Monday finalized a 5-year contract for the streaming rights of Sony Pictures Television's sitcom "Seinfeld" beginning in 2021.

Why it matters: Landing the 180-episode series is a win for Netflix, which recently lost streaming rights to fan favorite sitcoms "Friends" and "The Office." Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the rights are for worldwide distribution, the Los Angeles Times first reported.

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Google is expected to debut its latest homegrown hardware, including the widely leaked Pixel 4, at a just-announced Oct. 15 event in New York.

Why it matters: Fall is the key season for consumer electronics debuts, coming just ahead of the holidays. Apple and Samsung have already launched their latest, debuting the iPhone 11 family and Galaxy Note 10, respectively.

Grant for the Web, a group funded by the Mozilla Foundation, Coil and Creative Commons, announced on Monday $100 million in funding to innovate new ways to monetize online content without using user behavior for advertising.

Why it matters: At present, the most sustainable way for a website to draw revenue from its content involves promoting advertisements based on detailed assessments of user behavior. Though that's a strategy many find to be a violation of privacy, there aren't other options available.

You wouldn't have known it from the summer heat this weekend in the Bay Area, but Silicon Valley's fall hardware season is upon us in full force — with giant companies scrambling to seize a bigger slice of the consumer electronics pie even as the pie itself isn't growing as fast as it used to.

Why it matters: The winter holidays remain the biggest shopping season and consumer electronics are always a hot category, including TVs, smartphones and other gadgets. However, the mix of how much consumer spending goes to each category can vary significantly from year to year.

Police said they arrested 76 people after demonstrators blocked traffic outside Microsoft's flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York City while protesting the tech giant's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, CNN reports.