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Judge dismisses FTC antitrust complaint against Facebook. A federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint against Facebook. The dismissal deals a major setback for the agency's complaint that could have resulted in Facebook divesting Instagram and WhatsApp. (Salvador Rodriguez via CNBC)
Fired by bot at Amazon: 'It's you against the machine'. Stephen Normandin spent almost four years racing around Phoenix delivering packages as a contract driver for Amazon.com Inc. Then one day, he received an automated email. The algorithms tracking him had decided he wasn't doing his job properly. (Spencer Soper via Bloomberg)
Duolingo just filed to go public. Duolingo, a Pittsburgh-based language learning business last valued at $2.4 billion, has officially filed to go public. The 400-person company, which we explored in great detail in our EC-1, was co-founded by Luis von Ahn, the inventor of CAPTCHA… (Natasha Mascarenhas via TechCrunch)
Americans' Hunger for the World's Goods Drives Global Recovery. A gusher of money is spilling out from the U.S. economy and rippling around the world, driving the global recovery to an extent it hasn't in decades and giving confidence to businesses to invest in meeting the huge American demand. (Tom Fairless via Wall Street Journal)
How a cofounder war led every employee to quit Instagram's trendiest cookware company. As Black Lives Matter protesters flooded New York streets in June of last year, Great Jones cofounder Sierra Tishgart called a Zoom meeting with her cookware startup's eight-person team. (Anna Silman via Business Insider)
Newsrooms often don't tell job and internship applicants that they didn't get the gig. Is that wrong?.Jacob Sutherland was taught by the Career Center at the University of California, San Diego to always write unique cover letters for internship and job opportunities. In his eyes, it's just a best practice. (Jaden Edison via The Poynter Institute)
What Marxism and 'Critical Race Theory' Have in Common. “I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a Communist.” — General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking to the House Armed Services Committee last Thursday “He's not just a… (Anne Applebaum via The Atlantic)
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