Some people are calling for a boycott of Twitter on Friday, after the service partially suspended actress Rose McGowan for violating its terms and policies. Early on Thursday morning, McGowan posted on Instagram that access to her Twitter account had been “limited” for violating the platform’s rules, preventing her from tweeting, retweeting or responding to […]
Read moreTarget takes voice-activated shopping nationwide with Google, joins Wal-Mart in fight against Amazon
Target shoppers nationwide will now be able to make purchases on Google Express, after a successful test on the platform in California and New York, the company announced Thursday. The big-box retailer is among several that are deepening their relationships with Google‘s voice-activated shopping platform in a battle for market share against Amazon‘s Alexa-enabled devices. […]
Read moreIf you’ve ever purchased a movie from iTunes and wished that you could watch it on another platform, such as Vudu or Amazon Video, now it’s easier than ever to do so. A few years ago, Disney launched a service called “Movies Anywhere” that allowed you to purchase a movie from, say, iTunes, and then […]
Read moreAmazon is nearly doubling its fulfillment center workforce as it heads into the holiday season. The company announced Thursday it’s hiring 120,000 temporary employees to work in fulfillment centers across 33 states, adding to 125,000 existing full-time employees. “We look forward to welcoming back holiday employees who return year-after-year to Amazon and welcome new faces […]
Read moreFacebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said she supports the public release of Russian-linked political Facebook ads that have been shared with Congress. “Things happened on our platform that shouldn’t have happened,” Sandberg said to Axios on Thursday. Sandberg is expected to meet with members of Congress on Thursday in Washington, D.C., according to Recode. […]
Read more“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run,” said the late American futurist and engineering researcher Roy Amara, a maxim known as Amara’s law. It takes more than a long-term view to understand why Facebook continues to invest heavily in virtual reality. […]
Read moreAirbnb is introducing its first branded apartment complex in Florida, a state where strict regulations threaten its growth and restrict its supply of available rooms. The partnership with Miami-based Newgard Development Group marks the first step by Airbnb to design accommodations from the ground up for home-sharing, further challenging the traditional hotel industry. Under the […]
Read moreAmazon’s stunning growth in a new unexpected market will boost the company’s shares, according to a small Wall Street firm. Atlantic Equities reaffirmed its overweight rating for the e-commerce giant, predicting its ad sales will nearly quintuple during the next four years. “Amazon’s advertising business is growing in importance, representing an increasingly material source of […]
Read moreJamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said he is no longer going to discuss bitcoin after his comments last month that the digital currency was a “fraud” caused quite the stir on Wall Street and Silicon Valley. “I wouldn’t put this high on the category of important things in the world. But I’m […]
Read moreIreland’s High Court on Thursday ruled that a 850 million euro ($1 billion) data center planned by Apple in the west of Ireland may proceed, dismissing an environmental challenge made by three people. Apple announced plans to build the data center in 2015, but the project has been delayed by planning objections. A similar Apple […]
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