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Amazon adds live and on-demand US local news to its news app on Fire TVs, starting with 12 major markets and expanding into 90 more during 2021 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Amazon adds live and on-demand US local news to its news app on Fire TVs, starting with 12 major markets and expanding into 90 more during 2021 — At the end of a
Facebook’s Oversight Board can’t review cases that would result in legal sanctions, highlighting its powerlessness in actually hard cases like state censorship (Emily Bell/Columbia Journalism Review)
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review: Facebook’s Oversight Board can’t review cases that would result in legal sanctions, highlighting its powerlessness in actually hard cases like state censorship — This week saw the long-awaited public debut of
Daily interactions with right-leaning pages on Facebook fell only 6% in the 20 days post-election vs. 20 days before despite reports of an adjusted algorithm (Kayla Gogarty/Media Matters for America)
Kayla Gogarty / Media Matters for America: Daily interactions with right-leaning pages on Facebook fell only 6% in the 20 days post-election vs. 20 days before despite reports of an adjusted algorithm — After the election, the
Apple’s Screen Recognition, a computer vision system in iOS14 trained on images of apps in use, labels the UI elements on screen for users who are blind (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Apple’s Screen Recognition, a computer vision system in iOS14 trained on images of apps in use, labels the UI elements on screen for users who are blind — Apple has always gone out
DoorDash raises its IPO price range to $90 to $95 from $75 to $85 per share, aiming to raise up to $3.1B (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
said it’s seeking to raise … Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: DoorDash raises its IPO price range to $90 to $95 from $75 to $85 per share, aiming to raise up to $3.1B — – Company raises share
How Montreal-based Pornhub profits from child and revenge porn, rape, spy cam and other criminal, non-consensual sex videos (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times: How Montreal-based Pornhub profits from child and revenge porn, rape, spy cam and other criminal, non-consensual sex videos — Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation
Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Ryan Browne / CNBC: Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions — – Revolut’s new acquiring solution
As Facebook, Google, and Microsoft invest heavily in Indonesian tech companies, the nation’s internet economy has grown to $44B, over fivefold from 2015 (Nikkei Asia)
tech companies … Nikkei Asia: As Facebook, Google, and Microsoft invest heavily in Indonesian tech companies, the nation’s internet economy has grown to $44B, over fivefold from 2015 — Southeast Asia’s No.1 digital economy attracts payment deals
NLRB has issued a complaint against Amazon in November over firing of warehouse employee who discussed pay and other workplace issues with her coworkers (Caroline O’Donovan/BuzzFeed News)
Caroline O’Donovan / BuzzFeed News: NLRB has issued a complaint against Amazon in November over firing of warehouse employee who discussed pay and other workplace issues with her coworkers — This spring, six different Amazon employees claimed
Friends and colleagues of Tony Hsieh say he was privately coping with issues of mental health and addiction, made worse by COVID lockdowns, over the past year (Forbes)
Forbes: Friends and colleagues of Tony Hsieh say he was privately coping with issues of mental health and addiction, made worse by COVID lockdowns, over the past year — When the business icon died in a fire
US and Australia sign an agreement allowing the US Cyber Command and Australia’s IWD to jointly develop and share a virtual cyber training platform (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and Australia sign an agreement allowing the US Cyber Command and Australia’s IWD to jointly develop and share a virtual cyber training platform — The United States and Australia have signed a
Sources: WarnerMedia is weighing 2 new streaming services, with a subscription service based on CNN content in 2021 and a free entertainment service for 2022 (Jessica Toonkel/The Information)
Jessica Toonkel / The Information: Sources: WarnerMedia is weighing 2 new streaming services, with a subscription service based on CNN content in 2021 and a free entertainment service for 2022 — AT&T’s WarnerMedia, long a giant in
Activision sues Netflix for poaching its CFO, says Netflix induced him to breach his contract; Fox and Viacom also have said Netflix illegally poached staff (Hollywood Reporter)
Hollywood Reporter: Activision sues Netflix for poaching its CFO, says Netflix induced him to breach his contract; Fox and Viacom also have said Netflix illegally poached staff — The gaming giant alleges “Netflix’s tortious and unethical conduct
EU law inhibiting the monitoring of email, messaging, and other services that takes effect Dec. 20 would also restrict scanning for child sexual abuse imagery (New York Times)
20 would also restrict scanning for child sexual abuse imagery — Regulators argue that while abuse imagery on the internet is abhorrent, unchecked scanning for it by tech companies could violate privacy rights. New York Times: EU
Digital health startup Everlywell has raised $175M Series D at a $1.3B valuation to expand its virtual care options, after a $25M funding round in February (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Digital health startup Everlywell has raised $175M Series D at a $1.3B valuation to expand its virtual care options, after a $25M funding round in February — Digital health startup Everlywell has raised