Amazon's third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company's revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : retail in 2023 inv...
News Corp has shut down its news aggregation service Knewz after just 18 months of operation, citing lack of profits
the Quibi of news aggregation https://twitter.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : oh kno https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Chris Mohney / @chrismohney : literally and actually had not even...
In a book excerpt, Susan Fowler discusses the nightmare she went through after her Uber essay: being followed, people digging through her past, anxiety, more
Susan Fowler is the author of Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber. Tweets: @goldiechan , @yoda , @gregmepstein , @moiragweigel , @kimzetter , @sarah_edo , @johnru...
Instagram briefly replaces vertical feed with horizontal scrolling for many users, says it was meant to be a small test that “went broader than we anticipated”
The Growth of Gestures in the Mobile UX NBC Bay Area : Instagram Users Share Outrage After Brief Update Rolls Out Dave / Notes from Silicon Valley : Instagram accidentally updates app Tweets: Adam Mos...
Silicon Valley should move past its glowing perception of the Zuckerberg-Sandberg paradigm, where the challenges created by a brash CEO are tackled by the COO
and they invariably will — often a disproportionate amount of the blame falls on them, too. The fixer, it turns out, always gets the blame.” - the ever-thoughtful perspective of @jessiwrites. http://t...
Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference are untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers
and that it might be toxic Michael Posner / Forbes : Confronting Facebook's Growing Pains Rob Price / Business Insider : Facebook employees react to the latest scandals: ‘Why does our company suck at ...
Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections
As part of our efforts to prevent interference … Tony Romm / Washington Post : Facebook ties newly suspended accounts to the Kremlin, a ‘timely reminder’ of election meddling threat CNN : Facebook tak...
VP of policy details Facebook's limits to free speech: physically or financially endangering people, intimidating via hateful words, tricking people for profit
just downranking and redirecting you to Snopes” is rapidly becoming Silicon Valley's go-to answer to charges of censorship or playing arbiter of truth. http://newsroom.fb.com/... http://twitter.com/.....
Facebook bans Infowars and 3 other pages run by Alex Jones for “repeated violations of Community Standards”; Spotify removes all episodes of The Alex Jones Show
It's About the Incoherence of ‘Hate Speech’ Ellen Tannam / Silicon Republic : Tech firms clamp down on Alex Jones and Infowars Kerry Flynn / Digiday : Platforms quickly pile on Infowars ban, but Alex ...
Lithium Technologies to shut down Klout website and the Klout score on May 25, is planning a new social impact scoring methodology based on Twitter
Remember Klout? — The influencer market service … Jason Koebler / Motherboard : Klout Dead — RIP to the “social reputation score” website. Sean Hollister / CNET : Klout is shutting down, so your s...