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Amazon doubles down on office workers

6 years 2 months ago
Amazon said Tuesday it plans to hire 3,500 additional workers in cities across the United States. This move commits the e-commerce giant to a significant expansion of office space at a time when others in the tech industry are embracing telecommuting indefinitely.

Did Fortnite just kill the App Store as we know it?

6 years 2 months ago
Fortnite maker Epic Games sent shockwaves through the tech industry this week when it sued Apple and Google, claiming both companies' app stores are monopolies. If Epic were to win the lawsuits, Apple and Google could be required to overhaul their businesses by making their app stores more favorable to developers.

Facebook, Twitter and Google failed to protect the 2016 election. Now they want to prove they've learned their lesson

6 years 2 months ago
For the past four years, tech giants including Facebook, Google and Twitter have invested massively in beefing up their election security efforts — creating new rules for political advertisers, hiring thousands of content moderators and building ties with law enforcement. The aim has been to avoid a repeat of the 2016 campaign, which was marred by foreign meddling and highlighted how woefully unprepared social media companies were for an attack on US democracy leveraging their platforms.

Music is big on Twitch. Now record labels want it to pay up

6 years 2 months ago
In 2018, Twitch streamer Ryann Weller played a 30-second snippet of 50 Cent's "In Da Club" on one of his livestreams. He showed viewers an animated e-card featuring his fans' faces dancing to the 2003 hit song. It became one of thousands of clips that fans have created of Weller's livestreams since he joined the Amazon-owned service in 2015.
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