How eBay, launched in 1995 as AuctionWeb, anticipated many of the key features that would define a “platform” and unlocked the profit potential of the internet
Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian : Tweets: @moiragweigel and @bentarnoff Tweets: Moira Weigel / @moiragweigel : Today, much critical discourse on the internet focuses on search and social media platforms. ...
Sources: Life360, a family safety app with 33M users, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the location data broker industry's top sources
family safety app Life360. Life360 sells location data from its 33 million users to about a dozen data brokers, including X-Mode, Safegraph, and Cuebiq. https://themarkup.org/... Wolfie Christl / @wol...
Q&A with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer on why AWS is easy to migrate to but difficult to leave, how the pandemic compounded AWS' advantages, and more
Amazon is on a mission to own the infrastructure of our lives. The second-largest private employer in the United States after Walmart … Tweets: @ivadixit , @moiragweigel , @abebab , @kunktation , @le...
An analysis of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's dissertation at a German university in 2002 and how it presaged the work he would go on to do at Palantir
and what it reveals about the new tech nationalism. CW: Contains long, bone-dry summaries of late Adorno. https://www.boundary2.org/... Moira Weigel / @moiragweigel : For years I'd heard that the CEO ...
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...
The biggest challenges for US tech firms in 2019: GDPR-like privacy protections, large security breaches becoming routine, and anti-government employee protests
Susan Fowler / New York Times : Tweets: @susanthesquark , @moiragweigel , @nytopinion , @mer__edith , @nytopinion , @wslack , @bradfordcross , and @alexstamos Tweets: Susan Fowler / @susanthesquark :...