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Spotify's bet on Gimlet and Anchor gives it a foothold into podcasting to apply its listener monetization skills without worrying about sending money to labels — Credit Spotify CEO Daniel Ek with honesty; in a blog post announcing a major move into the podcast space, Ek wrote:
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Gimlet's Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber on weighing remaining independent and being acquired, the days before the deal, and reach, data, and discoverability — Blumberg and Lieber spoke with Recode's Peter Kafka on the latest episode of Recode Media. — On Friday, Recode broke the news … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Waymo CTO talks about the early days of Google's self-driving project, its 10th anniversary, Waymo's plans to expand commercially beyond ride-hailing, more — A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google's main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur …
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Fitbit launches Inspire, its first fitness tracker available exclusively through its corporate, wellness, health plan, and health systems partners — Fitbit has recently introduced a new activity and sleep tracker. But unlike it's previous devices, this one is only available if your health plan or employer is signed up with Fitbit.| Washington Post: |
Two sources say that after political and community opposition in New York City, Amazon executives have had internal discussions to explore alternatives for HQ2 — Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City following a wave of opposition from local politicians …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash says it stands behind its pay policy, which uses tips to help cover what it owes delivery drivers, similar to the policy Instacart reversed this week — Startups like to test boundaries. At their best, they push technological ones. At their worst, they breach legal or ethical limits.
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AMD Radeon VII review: at $699, the first 7nm gaming GPU is good value when used as a high-VRAM prosumer card but for pure gamers there are better options — For AMD's Radeon Technologies Group, 2018 was a bit of a breather year. After launching the Polaris architecture in 2016 … | Jeff Bezos: |
Jeff Bezos publishes letters from National Enquirer owner AMI that he says show threats to publish his nude photos unless he stops probing AMI's reporting — Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually, for me it wasn't just unusual—it was a first. I was made an offer I couldn't refuse.
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Google's policies about inclusion of small publishers in Google News, one of the biggest news platforms on the internet, are opaque and applied at random — There's been a lot of discussion about the future of publishing over the last few years, particularly as Facebook traffic began cratering … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Live, a streaming site, and Amazon Live Creator, a free iOS app, for hosts from Amazon and brands to showcase available products — Amazon is taking on QVC with the launch of Amazon Live, which features live-streamed video shows from Amazon talent as well as those from brands …
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| Tim O'Reilly / Quartz: |
Hoffman and Yeh's “Blitzscaling” offers practical advice for startups but presents a lot of revisionist history and ignores the perils of VC-fueled hypergrowth — The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. — Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market.
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
What it's like to get by without using or accessing a single product from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, blocking all five at once for one week — Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN.Sponsor Posts
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