Sportradar, best known as a supplier of data related to sports betting, has a new service aimed at helping professional athletes avoid and report online harassment.
Why it matters: Efforts geared at identifying online abuse could help pave the way for broader change outside the world of sports. As Twitter's Jack Dorsey is fond of saying, it's all about "the health of the conversation." But improving that health often feels like a never-ending quest.
The Commerce Department restricted Huawei even more in the U.S. today, adding to its export blacklist 38 Huawei affiliates the Trump administration says the company used to evade its own earlier blacklisting.
Why it matters: The Trump administration is escalating its technological battle with China. Monday's announcement makes it even harder for Huawei to get chips it needs for its hardware from American companies.
Longstanding threats from both the U.S. and China to claw apart the two countries' interdependent tech economies are finally giving way to reality.
Why it matters: A divorce is going to be messy, with lots of near-term pain on both sides. And the end result may be a diminished, more fractured world compared to the one that existed just a couple of years ago.
Pinterest employees protested against gender and racial discrimination at the company in a virtual walkout Friday afternoon.
Why it matters: Pinterest, the feel-good lifestyle curation site, has been accused of treating women and particularly women of color badly, driving them out and not living up to the company's stated values. The virtual walkout is one boiling over point of long-running anger inside the company.
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