Corporate megastores are spending millions lobbying DC politicians on one-sided policies that send small businesses tumbling.

They want to enact harmful credit card mandates that take resources away from your local credit union and community bank.

Leaving Main Street businesses with less access to credit, making it harder for your family to pay for everyday goods like gas and groceries.

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Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, January 13th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Iran is intensifying

efforts to jam Elon Musk's Starlink service in the country. Iranians have been relying on Starlink

to share videos of growing protests and the regimes crack down on anti-government protesters.

Last week, Iran shut down most internet connections and throttled phone services.

Starlink is banned in the country and users of it are now being hunted. According to a U.S.

non-profit opposed to internet censorship, Iranian authorities over the weekend began searching for

and confiscating Starlink dishes in Western Tehran. AI startup Percepta has denied Palantir's allegations that it's poaching workers and stealing

company secrets.

In a legal filing yesterday, Percepta instead accused Palantir of trying to deter employees

from leaving.

In October, Palantir sued Percepta, alleging its two co-founders, had stolen trade secrets

and violated their

non-solicitation agreements. It also accused a third employee of stealing confidential documents

from Palantir. In Monday's filing, Percepta disputed Palantir's claims that it violated non-competition

agreements, calling them overly broad. Finally, S.K. Heinex plans to build a $13 billion chip packaging and testing facility

in South Korea amid surging demand for AI chips. SK. Hynix is a major supplier of high bandwidth

memory products to NVIDIA. The new plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2027 and will add

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