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Interviews with ~200 people show how Amazon's warehouse employment system, under strain before the pandemic, burned through workers and created huge confusion — Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires.
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Interviews with 30+ current and former Amazon employees detail allegations of racial bias and discrimination; many say its HR department was part of the problem — In interviews with Recode, dozens of Amazon employees detailed allegations of racial bias and discrimination on the job … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning his original source code for the web as an NFT, the first time he would be able to raise money directly from his invention — Sotheby's sale will be first time creator has been able to raise money directly from invention — Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
UK's CMA says it will launch an investigation into Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems over whether their market power is harming users — Today, the UK's competition watchdog (the Competition and Markets Authority) announced an official investigation into the mobile device ecosystem, citing Apple and Google's effective duopoly.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Andreessen Horowitz launches Future, a media property that will focus on informational and editorial content created by full-time staff and outside contributors — Today, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is officially launching its media property, called Future.
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 53 people shed light on Airbnb's secretive safety team, made up of ~100 agents, some with military backgrounds, who handle emergency situations — The first-floor apartment on West 37th Street, a few blocks south of Times Square, was popular with tourists …
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| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
Analysis: Amazon's properties, including Amazon.com, WholeFoods.com, and Zappos.com, are blocking Google's new FLoC tracking system from gathering data — Amazon is blocking Google's controversial cookieless tracking and targeting method. — Most of Amazon's properties including Amazon.com … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon brings its cashierless tech to a full-size grocery store for the first time in a new 25K square foot Amazon Fresh location in Seattle — Amazon's newest physical grocery store opening in the Seattle area this week is unique as it will feature the company's “Just Walk Out” cashierless technology.
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IRL, which is building a messaging-based social network, raises $170M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2, at a $1.17B valuation — Social calendar app IRL has been busy building a messaging-based social network, or what founder and CEO Abraham Shafi calls a “WeChat of the West.”| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
EU's top court says Facebook can't avoid potential EU-wide privacy orders from data protection authorities beyond its legal watchdog in Ireland — - EU top court rules on scope of so-called one-stop-shop system — Dispute stems from Belgian data order over Facebook cookies
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Iterable, which offers AI-powered cross-channel sales and marketing tools, raises $200M Series E, giving the company a $2B post-money valuation — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Iterable, a cross-channel platform for customer experiences … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic acquires Day One, a popular journaling app for Apple devices with 15M+ downloads on the Mac and iOS App Store; terms of the deal were not disclosed — Automattic is expanding its lineup of online writing platforms with its acquisition of Day One, a popular journaling app for Mac and Apple mobile devices.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Australia-based OCR Labs, which provides identity verification and regulatory compliance services, raises $15M Series A led by Oyak Group — With the gig economy came the need for ID verification, thus startups like OnFido (raised $188.8 million) appeared, alongside several others.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Duda, which helps large businesses to build websites, raises $50M Series D led by Claridge IL, bringing its total raised to $100M — Self-expression for many consumers today comes in the form of social media and apps. But if you're a larger business, even if you can't ignore platforms like Facebook … | Jonathan Ponciano / Forbes: |
MicroStrategy raises another ~$500M in bonds to buy more bitcoin, and bitcoin's price surged to $40K+ after Elon Musk hinted Tesla may again accept BTC payments — Less than a week after announcing the offering, business analytics firm MicroStrategy, which owns more bitcoin than any other corporation … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Thumbtack, a home improvement services marketplace, raises $275M at a $3.2B valuation led by the Qatar Investment Authority — On the heels of making an acquisition in December of home management startup Setter, Thumbtack — one of the pioneers in the home services gig economy — has raised a big round to double down on the model.| Todd Feathers / VICE: |
A look at lip-reading AI, with development supported by Google, Sony, and Huawei, as startups begin deploying it in hospitals, public transport systems, more — First came facial recognition. Now, an early form of lip-reading AI is being deployed in hospitals, power plants, public transportation, and more.
Tweets: @evanselinger, @vice, and @zenalbatross
| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
All 511 Apple Stores are open in some capacity today for the first time in over 17 months, according to data from Apple's website — June 15, 2021 marks the first day every single Apple Store in the world has been simultaneously open in over 75 weeks. Health and safety precautions …
Tweets: @michaelsteeber
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Shopify expands its one-click checkout, Shop Pay, to any merchant on Facebook or Google in the US, even if they don't use Shopify to power their online stores — E-commerce platform Shopify announced this morning its one-click checkout service known as Shop Pay will become available …
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