Sources: Tokyo-based aggregator website and app SmartNews, valued at $2B in 2021, laid off ~120 people, or 40% of US and China staff, with more coming in Japan
TechCrunch : Tweets: @seovillas and @michellemanafy Tweets: @seovillas : @TechCrunch ... It's unfortunate to hear that SmartNews has had to lay off a significant portion of their staff in the US and ...
Apple now lets “reader” apps link to websites for creating or managing user accounts, after the company gives access to an External Link Account Entitlement
that a LOT of their “services revenue” is a 30% commission from sleazy games exploiting gambling psychology to extract money from people, many of whom are children — is SO uncomfortable that they keep...
Interview with Australia's communications minister Paul Fletcher on the efficacy of the country's year-old news bargaining code with Google and Meta
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @pressgazette , @bitech , and @michellemanafy Tweets: @wired : Countries are looking at Australia's media code as a blueprint for forcing Big Tech to pay for ...
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
regardless of what type of device it is. Read the Copyright Office's new 1201 ruling here: https://www.copyright.gov/... @internetarchive : TODAY: @librarycongress alters the #DMCA again permitting th...
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent. Source: U.S. Copyright Office and U.S. Copyright O...
As Twitch turns 10, a look at how the service pioneered the patronage system that is prevalent across the internet's creator economy today
The livestreaming platform for gamers helped pioneer the patronage systems that prop up so much of the internet today. Tweets: @wired , @clemenssara , @michellemanafy , and @cecianasta See also Mediag...
Q&A with Twitter's senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more
Will Oremus / OneZero : Tweets: @ozm , @thedextriarchy , @mediasmarts , @michellemanafy , @risj_oxford , @willoremus , and @willoremus Tweets: OneZero / @ozm : Notice how Twitter is toeing the line t...
Q&A with Twitter's senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more
‘Twitter description guy’ isn't a guy. It's Twitter's curation team, and I talked to the woman who runs it. Tweets: @ozm , @thedextriarchy , @mediasmarts , @michellemanafy , @risj_oxford , @willoremu...
Netflix says its “Shuffle Play” feature, which lets Netflix's algorithm choose what you watch next, will roll out globally to all users in H1 2021
and it's coming this year Jon Porter / The Verge : Netflix confirms Shuffle Play feature will officially launch this year Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie : Netflix Is Bringing Its Shuffle Play Feature To ...
A look at the wave of hundreds of tech companies helping enterprises comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act
Privacy-focused technology companies are offering a variety of services, from personal data scrubbing to business-focused software meant to help companies comply with the law. Tweets: @privacyproject ...