Email & Collaboration Industry Fortnightly: November 6, 2019

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Nov 6 · 2 min read

GitLab considers ban on hiring in China and Russia due to espionage fears (zdnet.com)

Code hosting platform Gitlab operates with incredible levels of transparency. In a highly sensitive discussion that’s publicly accessible, executives and employees discuss this topic. The back-and-forth is educative and reads like a novel about corporate and geopolitics tensions.

Speaking of geopolitics, Adobe will be shutting down service for users in Venezuela in order to comply with a US executive order that prohibits trade with the country.

Since the reach of software and internet service is global, laws like GDPR or the laws of the country of incorporation (in this case the US) become more and more important.

The internet is making the world smaller, are our laws adapting to it? (Photo by NASA)

Google Keep prepares for universal Assistant integration, audio uploads on web (9to5google.com)

Google Keep is a fast and simple note-taking service which should become more and more useful with these new integrations. We do hope there won’t be compatibility issues between the consumer version and the G Suite one (as happened to Google Fi and Google Voice).

Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead (www.economist.com)

There’s been a lot of talk lately about regulating tech companies more and more. Some candidates for President in the US are even talking about breaking up the biggest tech companies over there. This article from The Economist advocates for facilitating competition instead.

Should politicians regulate Big Tech? (Photo by Michael)

Now Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals With Big Oil (www.bloomberg.com)

More than 1,000 Google employees have signed an open letter demanding that the company cut ties with climate-change deniers and commit to zero-emissions by 2030. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has previously said that zero-emissions by 2030 “doesn’t seem unreasonable”.

Oil is latest target for activist Googlers after military and border agency (Photo by Zbynek Burival)

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