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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Came To India To Invest A Billion Dollars. Traditional Retailers Shouted At Him To Go Back Home.
tech Amazon’s aggressive discounts in India have angered traditional retailers who say that online shopping is killing their business. By Pranav Dixit Reporting From New Delhi Pranav Dixit BuzzFeed News Reporter Reporting From New Delhi Posted on January 15, 2020, at 8:28 a.m. ET Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News NEW…
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Instagram Is Testing Desktop DMs
For many people, Instagram direct messages are one of their main methods of communication. Chatting with friends, sliding into DMs, or even doing customer service or professional work. For years, the only way to do this has been over the phone app. Even though there’s an Instagram website where you…
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Amazon’s Race To Build A Fast Delivery Network: “The Human Cost Of This Is Too Much”
This article is copublished with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. As they prepared for last year’s holiday rush, managers at Amazon unveiled a plan…
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Apple Said It Is Helping In The Pensacola Shooting Investigation, But It Won’t Unlock The Shooter’s iPhones
Apple denied a request from US Attorney General Bill Barr Monday evening to unlock two iPhones belonging to the Saudi Air Force cadet who killed three sailors and wounded eight others in a shooting at a naval air station in Pensacola, Florida, last month. “We reject the characterization that Apple…
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The UK Election Showed Just How Unreliable Facebook’s Security System For Elections Really Is
Jacob King – Pa Images / Getty Images The Memorial Hall polling station in the village of Bishop’s Itchington, Warwickshire, as voters go to the polls in the general election. On Dec. 10, just two days before the United Kingdom went to the polls, some 74,000 political advertisements vanished from…
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Facebook Will Call Some Media “State Controlled.” Al Jazeera Said That’s “Dangerous.”
Government-funded news organizations worried they could be damaged by Facebook’s imminent plan to label content from state-controlled news organizations are furious at a process they say is opaque and irresponsible. When Facebook announced plans to apply such labels in October, it provided no information about the criteria it would use…
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