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| George P. Slefo / Ad Age: |
Spotify will suspend political ads in early 2020, citing the lack of tools to review them; source: political ads are not a significant source of its revenue — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and the RNC are among Spotify advertisers — Spotify is suspending the sale of political advertising …
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| Benedict Evans: |
Amazon has ~35% of US ecommerce and ~6% of addressable US retail, and is two thirds the size of Walmart, which would make an antitrust case against it difficult — - Amazon is a big company, but what does that mean? How big is ‘big’? What does ‘dominant’ or ‘scale’ or ‘huge’ mean when US retail is $6 trillion a year?
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| Reuters: |
Mastercard SpendingPulse: US online holiday sales from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24 grew 18.8% YoY, for a 14.6% share of the total retail sales during the period — (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers spent more online during this year's holiday shopping season, a report by Mastercard Inc (MA.N) … | David Porter / 8tracks blog: |
As 8tracks prepares to shut down on December 31, its co-founder shares a post-mortem of what went wrong with the once-promising music streaming startup — 8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We're sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind …
Tweets: @agaresia, @hasief, @mathewi, @8tracks, @jherskowitz, and @iamdickgregory
| William Suberg / Cointelegraph: |
BitMEX Research report: of 12 big initial exchange offerings in 2019, 11 are almost worthless compared to the price their tokens first traded for on exchanges — Initial exchange offerings (IEOs), which launched in 2019 have lost investors up to 98% of their money, damning new statistics show.| Amanda Keton / Wikimedia Foundation: |
Wikimedia says India's proposed intermediary liability rules will impact Wikipedia and limit access to information online, urges government to redraft rules — The Wikimedia Foundation is deeply concerned about new proposed changes to India's intermediary liability rules …
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| Financial Times: |
All 20 standards proposals related to surveillance tech received by UN's ITU since 2016 have come from Chinese companies like Huawei, ZTE, and Hikvision — Chinese companies have made every submission to the UN for international standards on surveillance technology in the past three years … | The Guardian: |
A look at the rise of tech activism in the 2010s led by blue-collar or contract workers, with a sharp rise in activism of full-time/white-collar workers in 2019 — Our database of collective actions challenges the mainstream media narrative. Here are our eight key insights — Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya and JS Tan
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| Jasper Jolly / The Guardian: |
UK's Competition and Markets Authority says Amazon failed to address its concerns about the investment in Deliveroo, refers the deal to a full investigation — Regulator says US firm's £442m stake in London-based food courier could hit customers, restaurants and grocers
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Profile of Rune Christensen, the leader of MakerDAO, a decentralized finance project providing trustless loans, now backed by ~$312M worth of ethereum — Rune Christensen has built MakerDAO into the most important project in decentralized finance, the fastest growing area in crypto.
Tweets: @bitcoinecon and @coindesk
| Elise Favis / Washington Post: |
Livestreams have become a popular venue for charity fundraising, replacing legacy telethons, with Twitch users raising $75M+ for charities between 2012 and 2017 — In the 1970s and '80s, mass media fundraising revolved around the telethon. Millions tuned in to watch Jerry Lewis and others emcee …
Tweets: @launcherwp and @elisefavis
| Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: |
Content creators including Jake Paul, iJustine, Dolan Dark, and Nerd City reflect on the last decade of internet culture — As the decade comes to a close, NBC News asked the content creators who've shaped internet culture to reflect on the 2010s. — Flashback to 2010 …
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