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Amazon confirms it is investigating claims that its employees in US and China accepted bribes for internal data and other confidential info on Amazon merchants — Employees, through intermediaries, are offering internal data to help merchants increase their sales on the website
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CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, and Bloomberg
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Twitter now puts live broadcasts started by accounts users follow, including breaking news, personalities, and sports, at the top of their timelines in its app — Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they're doing in realtime.
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Social Media Today, Marketing Land, Adweek, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @twitter and @coffeegeek
| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Durable iPhones can result in lower replacement rates but they expand Apple's client base via resales which can then be monetized via accessories and services — I think Lisa Jackson's presentation at the September 2018 iPhone launch event was perhaps the most interesting and most profound.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Tweets: @triketora, @kpfrahm, @iansherr, @hallstephenj, @saji, @fionaosaurusrex, and @neiltwitz
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook is hiring a Director of Human Rights Policy to steer investigations into human rights abusers on its platforms — Facebook has faced criticism for its slow response to the Myanmar government's use of its social network to fuel atrocities, and it's determined to prevent that from happening again.
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Axios, TechCrunch, Isle Of Wight Radio, and OnManorama
Tweets: @sarasous, @techcrunch, @mathewi, @axios, and @caseynewton
| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
California law, mandating cannabis-delivery drivers to be classified as employees, shows the real-world effects of changes in gig-economy worker classification — Drivers for cannabis companies in California now have to be classified as employees, rather than independent contractors.
Tweets: @aaronklein, @moreymark, @theatlantic, @alanasemuels, and @alanasemuels
| Sigal Samuel / The Atlantic: |
How citizen journalists and scholars are using the internet to find Uighur internment and “reeducation” camps and expose the persecution of minorities in China — The country is using high-tech methods of repression, but even the simplest tech may be enough to expose it.| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
After running Tezos blockchain network in beta since June, Tezos Foundation will officially launch its protocol on Monday — The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. — On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period …
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Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, Anycoin.news, NewsBTC, NullTX, and SludgeFeed. Tweets: @tezosfoundation
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
New York's regulator sues the US government claiming it usurped state powers by awarding national bank charters to online lenders and payment companies — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's top banking regulator on Friday sued the federal government to void its decision to award national bank charters … | Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tech companies like Salesforce, now the biggest private employer in San Francisco, are reacting to the city's limits by expanding and hiring faster elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere
Tweets: @owenthomas
| CB Insights Research: |
Research: healthcare AI startups have raised $4.3B across 576 deals since 2013, topping all other industries in AI deal activity — AI needs doctors. Big pharma is taking an AI-first approach. Apple is revolutionizing clinical studies. We look at the top artificial intelligence trends reshaping healthcare.| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Apple responds to viral customer complaint about deleting movies from his iTunes library, says it does not delete movies that users have already downloaded — Perhaps you've heard a story that goes like this: — “Apple's ‘buy’ button is a sham, because Apple has the right to remove movies …
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9to5Mac, TorrentFreak, Cult of Mac, and ExtremeTech
| NASDAQ.com: |
SurveyMonkey sets IPO range to $9 to $11/share, plans to raise $135M at the midpoint of the range and additional $40M via private placement at $1.3B valuation — SurveyMonkey, which operates a freemium online survey service, announced terms for its IPO on Thursday.Sponsor Posts
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Zoho Mail Admin Console: A complete overview — You just got added as an admin for your company's Zoho Mail account. Someone from IT sends you a link, you log in, and there it is, a full console with everything …
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