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Facebook's newest record: 2 billion users

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The social network surpasses a major milestone as it looks to connect even more of the world.
Facebook announced today it’s reached a major milestone: it now has 2 billion monthly users.
The social network was on the cusp of the double-billion mark for several months, and today CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it official in – what else – a Facebook post.
« As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially 2 billion people! » he wrote . « We’re making progress connecting the world, and now let’s bring the world closer together. It’s an honor to be on this journey with you. » wrote
To put the figure in perspective, Earth’s entire population is 7.3 billion. Twitter has 313 million monthly users, while Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, has 700 million. WhatsApp, another Facebook property, counts over 1 billion users on its platform.
And a little factoid dug up by TechRadar Senior Mobile & Buying Guides Editor Matt Swider: If this were 1927,100% of the world’s population would have Facebook.
Facebook was launched in 2004 and since then it’s been on a meteoric rise that not only encompasses 2 billion users around the globe but also different products. These include the aforementioned social and chat platforms as well as the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and various internet connectivity projects. Oculus Rift
Zuckerberg last week announced Facebook has revised its mission statement, centering the company’s focus on building community. Whereas before its mission statement had to do with sharing and connecting, it now reads « give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. » Facebook has revised its mission statement
Building community and bringing the world closer together goes further than helping people communicate with one another. Rather, Zuckerberg’s vision is for Facebook to be a platform for people to unite around things they care about.
It’s a lofty goal, and Facebook is still a company that must make money, which it does largely through advertising dollars. It may be cynical, but by connecting people through various communities, Facebook can also serve advertisements to these groups more readily.
Getting to the next 2 billion users will be a different type of challenge for Facebook. Most of the internet-connected world knows about Facebook already, so the company will have to deliver internet to more remote places with less infrastructure and less robust technology. (This is where Facebook projects like internet beaming drone airplanes come in, by the way.) internet beaming drone airplanes
Still, it took Facebook five years to go from 1 billion to 2 billion, and the firm is actively developing new ways for users to connect not just on the platform, but the web at large. And with Zuckerberg already stating he wants 5 billion people on Facebook by 2030, the next two may be closer than we think. 5 billion people on Facebook by 2030 Here’s your primer to Amazon Prime Day 2017 Amazon Prime Day

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Today’s huge ransomware attack has only made about $7,500 so far

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Ransomware attacks are bigger than ever, but the payouts appear to be shrinking. While the ransomware suspected to be a variant of Petya makes headlines..
Ransomware attacks are bigger than ever, but the payouts appear to be shrinking. While the ransomware suspected to be a variant of Petya makes headlines around the world, whoever set it loose isn’ t really making a whole lot of money, especially if they paid for the software to begin with.
At the time of writing, the Bitcoin address that today’s global attack points to has only collected 29 payments, for a total of 3.15 BTC, or $7,497. Considering the breadth of entities affected, that suggests that most victims know better than to cooperate.
TechCrunch spoke with McAfee Chief Scientist Raj Samani following the attack. He suggested that awareness campaigns against paying these kind of cyber ransoms are having an impact.
“Twenty people have paid — my guess is most of those are security researchers, ” Samani said. He cautions that paying the ransom doesn’ t even mean you’ ll get a decryption key back to unlock your system. With WannaCry, he notes that only an “inconsequential” amount of keys were returned to victims.
Anomali Director of Security Strategy Travis Farral echoed this sentiment in a statement to TechCrunch. “Bitcoin payments currently already exceed $3,600, but it’s essential that victims understand that payment may not actually allow them to access their data, and may just fund hackers to commit further crimes.”
In spite of their scope, recent ransomware attacks don’ t approach the hundreds of millions that something like 2014’s CryptoWall was able to generate. WannaCry, by comparison, has made around $150,000 to date. Samani explained that the small payments you see with something like today’s ransomware matches the market for an attack like this. “Around about 200 to 400 dollars seems to be the going rate, ” Samani said. “They’ ve got to make it small enough because they want people to pay the ransom.”
“We saw this with WannaCry; there are so few people that are making the payments, ” Samani said. “I think the message of ‘don’ t pay’ seems to be getting through.”
For now, there are way more questions than answers. One possibility is that the attack looked like ransomware, but that wasn’ t its main intended effect. “Was it ransomware?” Samani asked. “Well, in name, but it was destructive in nature. In this particular case, you have what is being publicized as a ransomware campaign… actually encrypting the master boot record.”
Whether the ransom was this attack’s intentions or not, victims may no longer be able to pay up. As Gizmodo’s Dell Cameron reports, email host Posteo has shut down the account associated with the bitcoin ransom meaning that there is no longer a way for victims to pay or reach their attacker.
Still, additional small payments appear to be trickling in. You can track them in real time with a @petya_payments, a bot by Quartz’s Keith Collins. We’ ll continue following this story as it develops.

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Health advocacy groups speak out against Senate health care bill Video

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ABC News’ Serena Marshall speaks to a policy advocate with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and an Affordable Care Act enrollee about Senate health care bill.
Welcome ABC news I’m street and Marshall am unsure on Capitol Hill where he advocacy groups are pushing back against this health care bill. I’m joined here with that one the leading advocacy groups American Cancer Society that you’re the cancer action network explains that’s what exactly thanks to. Where the public policy affiliated premier cancer society and we want to advance the interest of cancer patients we look for tears we advance. Access to health care preventive services etc. Okay so an it would hurt you manage all that policy so are you on capitol alive that heating or is this. Part of this film and the euphoria. And over here quite often and this bill as actually a very big and important piece for us that we are also here for. Research funding and other things like that if it can’t patience. So everything that you do have here is in the benefit of cancer patients that you lepers. That’s current so let’s that talk about this health care bill a lot of back and forth there as the house bill. You all came out against the all of these organizations on this list behind it came out against Elena coming out again this senate’s bill. Why do you see it important free to speak up against. Well it’s a really troublesome bill the problem is 22 million people can be losing their insurance. Those that can’t buy insurance won’t be able to afford it. They’re gonna get less it’s just a real problem it’s good marks a lot of people out of the insurance system. Now Republicans say this 22 million aren’t going to necessarily lose insurance that they’ll decide not to get it as representative of many cancer patients and the United States and what do you say about. Though I think that’s actually not really true I think people lose their insurance because it can’t afford it or they’re knocked off the rolls. When they reduce the number of people that are levity on Medicaid. What would you like to see it and did it made this promise of appeal on our place. They say the Obama care Affordable Care Act is failing Americans what do you see is the solution. Olympic Airways we can fix obamacare there it’s not a perfect bill and what needs to happen is the salmon it’s a go back to the drawing board. Republics that Democrats need to get together and do what’s right for the American people and provide health care of that serves everybody. For cancer patients or somebody who previously had cancer in remission or. Had a feeling that suffered from cancer what would you want them to know about health care. Well I’d want them to know that they have a preexisting condition that they’d better dessert. House that the pre existing condition right there are fifteen million cancer survivors who now have a preexisting condition that they have when they better keep their insurance at this bill. Passes because otherwise they mean outfield again and again. And would you happen. Then reach out her go through your organization that they wanted to make their voices heard how did they get involved. Absolutely they need to call their senators they need to call their house view their representatives even though that’s now pending senate. They need to let their effect elected officials know how bad this deliberately he has. What is I guess. Your big message though to those senators and those house numbers and the president trump who really want to do. But bases in the best interest of the people and get mr. downer place. Cancer patients need access to a health care that’s affordable and covers their treatment this bill doesn’t do that we need to vote this down and go back to the drawing board and. You for speaking with us and we also have a patient care. Matt Williams you. That’s late now and his give us a little background about your situation your small business owner. You’re into Affordable Care Act exchanges correct. I’m a small business owner from Denver Colorado currently insured through the exchange in Colorado. Do so on and it’s preserve my life that’s reality so I had blood clots in my long. My lungs and in my legs. That happened over and over and over and so I failed generic drugs. Cheap drugs that you might be able to pay for out of pocket the only thing that actually works for me that stops those clots from reforming my body. Is a non generic relatively expensive drugs and my hospitalization. And it’s been about a month see you all they try to figure rose going on at hospitalization costs and dollars. Before the Affordable Care Act what did you do things. So private insurance. Prior to the Affordable Care Act. And now you know the affordable erectus were covered Reynolds very little bit about my business I were comedian production similar to that the folks at the hero. A my business partners and in France so insurers on a single Payer. And a single Payer country he’s covered he’s covered for everything within his arm the one that needs I don’t qualify for a subsidy. But what would happen Loretta go back into the hospital and that’s something that’s statistically. Possible if not probable that happen in my lifetime and I go back into the hospital. The price of a half million dollars or. Even almost small business owner that is the cost of sufficient enough to strip me of my house my assets my savings. And potential in my life if we don’t get coverage. Obama’s bill. How did that your health insurance coverage change for when you are under private insurance diversity of part of what part did you see increase in premiums did you see this means go down. How would that health care coverage different. This changes over time and it changes depending on view insurer was and I think that one of the things that’s really cynical about the way that some of the stuff as an implement it is that a state to state. Dozens of federalism argument that each state implements this differently. I’m not really qualified to speak about how it’s implemented everywhere but for many in this is what this is what keeps my life hell it’s what keeps me in the workforce. And if this bill implemented. Under the current form the senate has just introduced last week. How would you see your policy change your health coverage. Fear for me personally as a person with a preexisting condition. It is of this bill. Puts caps on coverage and caps on coverage means that it will cover you up to a certain price point. An annual amount a lifetime basis. In the unlikely event that I go back to the hospital. And I reached those caps. I’m in this unique position where I’m technically insured. Put your not receive coverage so that’s I mean you couldn’t write a better catch 22 are technically and certainly don’t covered. What would you want your senators now and here house numbers are as honest now. I think the most important thing this is. Particularly speaking to senator guard because he’s our senator that sits on the fence about this issue and Colorado. Com it’s my condition is a condition that’s not rare condition and a lot of people. And there are millions of Americans that depend on the NCAA or coverage I have only one of them. I don’t believe them the stereotype. A person it’s not working hard does not participating in society that doesn’t. Deserve coverage analysis the Republicans of enemy in this country. I would certainly hope that you are. Oppose this bill and I go one step further the senator himself was. He was on the committee to write Medicaid portion of the bill. After the bill was released the senator said you know. I haven’t seen his bill before. So you. Which which senator do we having color of senator that is the one that drafted the bill was involved with the degree of a senator that’s gonna poses on legislation that’s it’s tricky proposition. As an American is this a partisan issue and you talked saving your life but it’s really comes out of partisan politics here on Capitol Hill. And that’s a misnomer but look health care as an issue that’s either Democrat or Republican. Just doesn’t. We all get sick and we ultimately died and that is something that’s a reality for every single person in the room for you arrived for people watching right now. Com. There’s. Just no partisanship though. And that proposition. And thank you for joining us and thank you for joining us we’re going to be bringing you all the latest at this health care debate continues to unable over the next week. Right here on ABC news answering a partial.
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China and North Korea Complicit in Modern Day Human Trafficking and Slave Labor

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While unveiling a new State Department report on Tuesday, U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson slammed China and North Korea as among the worst offenders
While unveiling a new State Department report on Tuesday, U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson slammed China and North Korea as among the worst offenders of human trafficking and forced labor today, and held China responsible for the tens of thousands of North Korean workers in China who essentially work as slaves there.
The congressionally mandated “Trafficking in Persons Report” (TIP) is compiled annually by the U. S. State Department and seeks to assess government efforts around the world to combat human trafficking. The 2017 edition contains assessments for 187 countries and territories, including the United States.
The report ranks countries in three tiers, of which Tier 3 is the lowest ranking and indicates countries that fail to satisfy even the minimum standards of the U. S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Previously China was placed on “Tier 2 watch list” for three consecutive years, and is downgraded to Tier 3 in this year’s report.
In his remarks, Tillerson said that China is downgraded to Tier 3 status in this year’s report in part because “it hasn’ t taken serious steps to end its own complicity in human trafficking.” Furthermore, Tillerson said that China needs to be held responsible for complicity in allowing forced labor by North Koreans to exist in China unchecked.
“An estimated 52,000 to 80,000 North Korean citizens are working overseas as forced laborers primarily in Russia and China, many of them working 20 hours a day. Their pay does not come to them directly. It goes to the government of [North] Korea, which confiscates most of that obviously, ” Tillerson said.
Human rights watchdog groups in South Korea and the United States have repeatedly highlighted how the North Korean regime profits from hundreds of millions of dollars each year from China and other countries by exporting enslaved workers overseas.
Tillerson also warned that failure to take action would lead to a chain of negative consequences for the interests of the United States around the world, as forced labor and human trafficking elsewhere would lead to rampant corruption and the undermining of the rule of law, which would then empower criminals and terrorists worldwide.
“Responsible nations simply cannot allow this to go on and we continue to call on any nation that is hosting workers from North Korea in a forced-labor arrangement to send those people home. Responsible nations also must take further action, ” he said.
The move to downgrade China was hailed by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) , a long-term critic of China’s communist regime. “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson deserves the gratitude of victims and human rights defenders, [for] calling out the Chinese government’s deplorable record and complicity in the cruelty of the sex and labor trafficking problem, ” Smith said.

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У Нью-Йорку через аварію потяга є постраждалі

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Щонайменше 34 людини зазнали травм у метро Гарлема (Манхеттен) після того, як потяг зійшов з рейок.
Щонайменше 34 людини зазнали травм у метро Гарлема (Манхеттен) після того, як потяг зійшов з рейок.
Про це заявив передає 1 12 Україна .
За даними екстрених служб, загрози життю потерпілих немає. 17 осіб відправлено до лікарні.
У транспортному управлінні Нью-Йорка відзначили, що потяг здійснив екстрену зупинку, внаслідок чого сталася аварія, було пошкоджено шляхи і частину тунелю.
Через аварію було зупинено ще кілька потягів, із них проведено евакуацію пасажирів.
Транспортне управління розпочало розслідування причин події.

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Boy's hospital bill goes viral amid health care debate

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" It seems fitting that, with the #TrumpCare debate raging, I got this bill in the mail today, " mom of sick child said on Twitter
A New Jersey mom says she posted her 3-year-old son’s heart surgery bill online to show how potential changes in the health care law could drastically increase out-of-pocket costs for those with life-threatening conditions.
Ali Chandra’s son, Ethan, was born with a congenital heart defect known as heterotaxy. He’s already had multiple surgeries which have been covered by health insurance. Chandra is concerned that the existing ban on lifetime benefits caps — meaning insurers can stop paying expenses once medical bills reach a specified limit — may be eliminated as part of the ongoing health care law overhaul. « A lifetime cap on benefits is the same as saying, ‘Sorry, you’re not worth keeping alive anymore. You’re just too expensive,  » she wrote in a Twitter post on Friday. Many on Twitter responded empathetically to her post.
Chandra, a married registered nurse who also has a young daughter, recently posted the bill for Ethan’s most recent open heart surgery. The family’s share was $500, but she said it would have cost them $231,115 if they didn’t have insurance.
Chandra wrote that her son has undergone four heart surgeries overall and will need more going forward. They also make regular visits to numerous doctors and must make emergency room trips for sepsis workups if his temperature rises above 100.4 degrees.
Ethan also takes five different prescription medications multiple times a day.
« None of this would be possible without insurance,  » she wrote in a Twitter post. « He blew past the million dollar mark long ago. »

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UT Dallas bomb hoax, Fair Park's face lift, Taco Charlton's new deal: Your Tuesday evening news roundup

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Good evening. Here are some stories you may have missed today. Do you want to get this roundup via email? Sign up for our newsletters here. Senate…
Good evening. Here are some stories you may have missed today.
Do you want to get this roundup via email? Sign up for our newsletters here. Senate GOP leaders delay vote on health care bill until after July 4
In a bruising setback, Senate Republican leaders are delaying a vote on their prized health care bill until after the July 4 recess, forced to retreat by a GOP rebellion that left them lacking enough votes to even begin debating the legislation, two sources said Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., delivered the message to GOP senators at a private lunch attended by Vice President Mike Pence and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. The decision was described by a Republican aide and another informed person who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the closed-door decision.
All GOP senators were planning to travel to the White House later Tuesday to meet with President Donald Trump, one source said.
Commentary: Health care bill would free millions from buying health insurance they don’t want, says contributor Doug Badger, a former health care adviser to George W. Bush.
National: A new global cyberattack has spread from Europe to the U. S., affecting ports and governments.
UT Dallas campus cleared after bomb threat hoax
The University of Texas at Dallas campus has been cleared after a bomb threat hoax caused a campus-wide evacuation Tuesday afternoon.
Lt. Ken MacKenzie with the University of Texas at Dallas Police Department said campus police received the bomb threat around 2 p.m. from an anonymous caller who demanded a large amount of money.
MacKenzie said they didn’t believe the threat was real since the caller hung up before giving details of the demands, but the university sent out an evacuation alert and notified the FBI as precautionary measures.
Courts: Four women have sued a Carrollton spa, claiming male employees harassed them and took pictures of them as they showered or undressed.
Does Fair Park need a $50M face lift? Dallas City Council could let voters decide
After arriving at City Hall just days ago, newly minted Dallas City Council member Kevin Felder was not happy with the « paltry sum » of $5 million set aside for Fair Park in the proposed November bond package.
“I said, ‘What is this?’” Fair Park’s new council member recounted Monday. Felder, aghast, told city staff, « This has got to change. »
He and Mayor Mike Rawlings backed more funding, and in November voters could decide whether to spend $50 million for a face lift and gut surgery in the aging 277-acre « crown jewel of the state,  » as Felder has called Fair Park. The funding proposal represents a significant investment in a park that is fading into the past and still has an uncertain and hotly debated future.
Real Estate: Former Dallas Cowboys star Emmitt Smith is departing from the real estate brokerage company he formed .
Retail: North Texas’ two big foreclosed regional shopping malls, Plano’s Collin Creek Mall and Lewisville’s Vista Ridge Mall, may soon have new owners .
Photo of the day
No ifs, ands or butts, goat yoga is the cutest fad sweeping the nation. Classes here in Dallas-Fort Worth, however, sell out so quickly that it can be a tough to seize an opportunity to flow next to these fur babies. Good news, though — the City of Grapevine has added to its schedule of classes in July at Nash Farm.
Around the site
Taco ‘bout a good deal: The Dallas Cowboys’ first-round draft pick, Taco Charlton, has inked deal with Taco Bueno, saying “Texas is THE PLACE for tacos.”
Immigration and housing: Dallas home builders are pushing for immigration reform to remedy a labor shortage that’s sending new home prices through the roof.
Commerce ISD trustee steps down: A day after Commerce’s police chief resigned due to fallout from the arrest of the 2016 Miss Black Texas US Ambassador, the man involved in the altercation with her resigned his school board post .
Losing connections: Business columnist Mitchell Schnurman says Frontier’s Verizon’s Fios deal stands as a textbook case of how not to do an acquisition .
Thinking ahead: A McKinney boy’s car seat invention will alert parents and authorities when it senses that a child is being exposed to dangerous heat in a car.
Finally
Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed Mike Wilson, editor of The Dallas Morning News, to say he’ d read something in the June 21 issue that couldn’ t possibly be true.
An eight-paragraph Washington Post article on page 10A reported on a national study about kids and guns. The last sentence said 4.2 percent of American kids have witnessed a shooting in the past year.
“Really?” Doud wrote. “Does it really sound believable that one kid out of every 24 has witnessed a shooting in the last year? I think not, unless it was on TV, in a movie, or in a video game. In that case it would probably be more like 100 percent.”
His instincts were right. The statistic was not.
Here is the unfortunate story of how a couple of teams of researchers and a whole bunch of news organizations, including this one, unintentionally but thoroughly misinformed the public.
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‘Okja’ Review: Bong Joon Ho’s Giant Pig Movie for Netflix Is Messy Good Fun

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Once you got past the technical problems at the first Cannes screening, the South Korean director’s film was audacious, frustrating and a real hoot A South Korean auteur who spikes his love for genre with a wicked black humor and a fanatical attention to detail, Bong…
A South Korean auteur who spikes his love for genre with a wicked black humor and a fanatical attention to detail, Bong Joon Ho is one of the Cannes Film Festival directors most likely to achieve mainstream success to go with his art-house accolades.
The dual threat led to a packed house at the early-morning Cannes screening of his new film, “Okja” — which, once it got past a rough stretch as the Netflix logo was booed and then technical problems halted the screening, gave the festival a much needed shot of energy, audacity and sheer weirdness.
It also supplied Cannes 2017 with something that had been badly missing in its first two days of programming: good fun.
Part kid flick, part slapstick adventure comedy, part animal-rights diatribe, it is as playful, uncontainable and messy as its main character, a giant pig who is by turns charming, unruly and touching.
Bong’s last film, “Snowpiercer, ” was a genre exercise spun sideways, an action movie with a social conscience set on an endlessly speeding train. It was wry and fatalistic and absolutely thrilling, “Speed” meets “The Lord of the Flies” meets “Brave New World.”
“Okja” has similarities, mostly in the alternative-future setting (though the titles insist this quietly dystopian world is the present) and the presence of a made-over Tilda Swinton delightfully pulling out all the stops as a very bad person (or two) .
If it doesn’ t always seem sure of what kind of movie it wants to be, “Okja” is at its heart a love story, albeit one between a little girl and a giant, genetically engineered piglike creature named Okja.
Okja has been created by the Mirando Corporation, a multinational behemoth with a history of evil dealings that its new CEO, Mirando family scion Lucy Mirando, is trying to obscure by putting on a happy face. (Comparisons to Ivanka Trump, Swinton told TheWrap, are unplanned but not unfair.)
For years, the big pig has been the best friend of young Mija, played by An Seo Hyun. But when Okja is shipped to the USA for unknown but likely nefarious purposes that go deeper than the PR stunt Lucy Mirando is promising, Mija heads out in pursuit. She’s aided by the comically well-meaning Animal Liberation Front, who stage raids only after telling their victims that they’ re nonviolent, and who fight using what they insist (in mid-combat) are nonlethal choke holds.
The members of ALF include a delightfully earnest Paul Dano — but their comic escapades, and even Swinton’s delicious scenery-chewing, are overshadowed by Jake Gyllenhaal’s insane performance as Dr. Johnny Wilcox, the host of an animal show with declining ratings. In short-shorts and bad hair, he plays Dr. Johnny as part Crocodile Hunter, part Richard Simmons (in his prime) — he’s way over the top, which is exactly where the famously exacting Bong wants him to be.
“Okja” is a kids’ story that ends in a slaughterhouse, a comedy that gets very serious. It’s messy and alive, frustrating and fun in a way that few other films at this festival will likely be.
And by the way: Once the technical problems were fixed, it looked great on a big screen. It may have taken Netflix to get this thing made, but theaters are where it belongs.
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McConnell on Trump Healthcare Meeting: 'We Made Good Progress'

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that senators made good progress with President Donald Trump at a meeting on the chamber’s healthcare bill – acknowledging the plan will receive no support from Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that senators « made good progress » with President Donald Trump at a meeting on the chamber’s healthcare bill – acknowledging the plan will receive no support from Democrats.
« The president got an opportunity to hear from the various members who have concerns about market reforms and Medicaid, the future of Medicaid, and Medicaid expansion,  » the Kentucky Republican told reporters with Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas outside the White House.
« The meeting was very helpful,  » he added. « The one thing I would say is that I think everybody around the table is interested in getting to ‘yes.’
« We’re interested in getting an outcome, because we know the status quo is simply unacceptable, unsustainable – and no action is just not an option. »
President Trump summoned the senators up to the White House after McConnell delayed a vote on the healthcare plan until after the Senate’s July 4 recess amid strong opposition from party members.
With ZERO Democrats to help, and a failed, expensive and dangerous ObamaCare as the Dems legacy, the Republican Senators are working hard!
I just finished a great meeting with the Republican Senators concerning HealthCare. They really want to get it right, unlike OCare!
McConnell said afterward « it’s a very complicated subject.
« I had hoped, as you know, that we could have gotten to the floor this week, but we’re not quite there.
« But I think we’ve got a really good chance of getting there, it will just take us a little bit longer. »
He said the GOP must pass legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare because Republicans will receive no help from Democrats.
« The status quo is simply unsustainable,  » he said.
« It will be dealt with in one of two ways: Either Republicans will agree and change the status quo, or the markets will continue to collapse and we’ll have to sit down with Sen. Schumer,  » he said, referring to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
« My suspicion is that any negotiation with the Democrats would include none of the reforms that we would like to make, both on the market side and the Medicaid side.
« So, for all of those reasons, we need to come up with a solution,  » McConnell said. « The American people elected us to do that – and we’re working hard to get there. »

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Even a $2.7 billion fine can't hurt Google

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The European Commission has fined Google $2.7 billion, but that won’t hurt the search giant.
Europe is once again mad at Google, but this time European regulators’ angst comes with a serious price tag: a €2.42 billion, or about $2.73 billion, fine to punish the Alphabet, Inc. (GOOG, GOOGL) , subsidiary for pushing its product-search tool in its own search results.
“Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison shopping service in its search results, and demoting those of competitors” European Commission member Margrethe Vestager said in a statement Tuesday morning announcing the EC’s ruling .
Google general counsel Kent Walker wrote in a blog post that the EU didn’ t understand how product search now transcends traditional web queries, citing Amazon (AMZN) in particular as “a formidable competitor.” He said Google would continue to make its case in Europe.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, however, the company predicted that it will pay the fine by the middle of the year. It shouldn’ t feel much pain, with $18.1 billion in cash and cash equivalents on its books at the end of March. And with no prospect of a comparable penalty from the U. S., stateside searches probably won’ t look any different anytime soon.
The EC’s complaint centers on a relatively small part of Google’s search: the illustrated ads you’ ll see atop some product-centric search results. Type “Washington Nationals cap, ” for instance, and Google will display a strip of listings for stores selling hats with the logo of D. C.’s baseball team.
Other search sites may also help you comparison shop, but they appear far lower in Google’s results. I saw none in several pages of results in my search for a Nats cap.
The EC heard a version of this complaint eight years ago, when a British shopping-search engine called Foundem asked for an investigation into Google’s promotion of its own Product Search.
Google Product Search was unavailable for comment on the EC’s new ruling: In 2012, Google scrapped that attempt at building a comprehensive indexing of items for sale in favor of simply selling ads atop some results. The EU complaint treats the two as basically the same thing.
This is not the first time the wheels of justice have turned slowly in Europe. See also: Europe requiring Microsoft (MSFT) to add a “browser ballot” interface to Windows in 2009, years after Mozilla Firefox had fractured Internet Explorer’s near monopoly.
Meanwhile, Europeans have kept on using Google at even higher rates than U. S. users.
According to StatCounter, Google’s share of all searches stands at 91.9% in Europe, versus 87.7% in the U. S. In mobile search, where Google’s lead is still larger, Europeans direct 97.7% of their queries to Google while Americans “only” use it for 96.3% of theirs.
Unlike Microsoft’s past attempts to stop computer manufacturers from installing other browsers and impede setting IE alternatives as a default browser, it’s harder to see coercion behind that overwhelming market share.
On my own Android phone, it takes six touches of the screen to change its default search site: Open Chrome, tap the menu button, scroll down, select Settings, tap “Search engine, ” pick one of four non-Google options, two owned by Yahoo Finance’s parent firm Verizon (VZ) .
It’s even easier to go directly to another site or app.
“Around half of searches for products now start on specific e-commerce sites or apps, especially Amazon in the countries where it operates, ” emailed Jackdaw Research principal Jan Dawson.
If European users sometimes don’ t want to waste time tapping around to look up the price of something, is it wrong for Google to sell ads against that curiosity?
“Next up: EU to decide a search engine offering news, image & local search is somehow a violation of being a ‘fair’ search engine, ” Danny Sullivan, founder of the trade-news site Search Engine Land tweeted .
Many industry observers do worry about how much Google dominates the online ad business, with Facebook (FB) close behind. But the EC’s action doesn’ t speak to that.
Dawson doubts that the EC ruling would revive the market for non-Google product-search tools.
“Although those comparison shopping sites still exist, they’ re far less relevant today, and even a change to Google’s search engine isn’ t going to turn that around.”

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