In memo to employees, Bezos says face mask orders for workers are unfilled due to short global supply, and that his time is now “wholly focused” on COVID-19
There's a debate emerging … Justine Coleman / The Hill : Amazon doubling overtime pay for warehouse workers Georgina Torbet / Digital Trends : Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers, but hol...
Facebook suffers third major outage in 2019, with all of its services down for ~2 hours on Sunday, after a ~24-hour outage in March, and a smaller crash in Jan.
down (again) Matt Binder / Mashable : Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger all go down in worldwide outage Yoel Minkoff / Seeking Alpha : Another outage for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Ch...
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability
but some experts are questioning his motives Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run : Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Believe We Need a More Active Role for Governments and Regulators’ David McCabe / Axios : Zuckerberg start...
Sources: China is escalating clampdown on cryptocurrency trading, targeting platforms that offer exchange-like services, following last year's ban on exchanges
How to buy and sell Bitcoin Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : China reportedly plans to block access to foreign cryptocurrency exchanges Alayna Treene / Axios : Bitcoin plunges as countries crack dow...
James Damore, author of controversial diversity memo who was fired by Google, files class action suit claiming it discriminates against white male conservatives
Against White Men GOP.com : Harmeet Dhillon — Harmeet became the RNC Committeewoman from California in 2016. Julie Bort / Business Insider : Google managers kept blacklists of conservative employees...
Uber must treat drivers as employees and not as independent contractors, UK's Employment Appeal Tribunal rules in appeal case
next stop is the Supreme Court Jamie Rigg / Engadget : Appeal tribunal rules Uber drivers are definitely workers Reuters : Uber loses UK appeal bid to overturn workers' rights decision Rob Davies / Th...
Twitter to roll out 280-character tweets around the world, in all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
and infuriates with maddening circle icon Marius Nestor / Softpedia News : Finally, Twitter Doubles the Character Limit of Tweets to 280 Characters CBS San Francisco : Welcome To A World With 280-Char...
China has broadly blocked WhatsApp, including basic text messages on the service, following its mid-July crackdown on WhatsApp video chats, multimedia messages
Finding Idealism in the CEO Suite With Intel, Chobani, and Allstate Adnan Farooqui / Ubergizmo : WhatsApp Has Been Blocked In China Shannon Liao / The Verge : China blocks WhatsApp Carl Velasco / Tech...
Didi Chuxing raises $5.5B to expand beyond China; the round is the largest ever for a tech company and makes Didi the world's most valuable startup after Uber
Tech Roundup Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Apple-Backed Didi Chuxing Earns Record $5.5B in China Tech Funding, Looks to Driverless as Future Rishabh Jain / International Business Times : Didi Chuxin...
Filing shows Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is set to make about $186M from Verizon deal based on current stock value, from options, restricted units, and shares
Inside the fading tech giant's lavish multi-million dollar soiree. Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Marissa Mayer will depart Yahoo with enough money to leave her children's children an inheritance Luke Stan...