What’s Up? (Oct. 17-23) PinPal? The digital payment processor PayPal has offered to buy Pinterest, a social curation site, in a deal that values the site at $45 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions. If completed, it would be the largest consumer internet deal in a decade and […]

The Russian government is increasingly pressuring American technology companies to take down content from their platforms with threats of fines, throttling and criminal prosecution for local staff ahead of this weekend’s parliamentary election.  The breadth of the censorship demands, backed by recently-passed laws targeting content deemed to be illegal, are […]