The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

If you make a music app, like Spotify, or a video app, like Netflix, you can force people to sign up on the web and Apple won’t take a cut. Meanwhile, Apple offers a mediocre Spotify alternative, Apple Music, which it advertises throughout the operating system. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has said he will testify as well.

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Engadget

MARCH 6, 2025

I feel it too: I pay for news sites, video streaming, music services, online magazines, my cats special food, charities and lots more and thats not including the stuff Im forgetting about. For example, if you signed up for Paramount Plus via your Fire TV Stick, youll go through your TV to cancel instead of through the Amazon mobile app.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into the market power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google ran to nearly six hours, accounting for a handful of delays and intermissions. Makena Kelly caught a key exchange at The Verge : Amazon has a policy barring the practice, but lawmakers like Rep. Well, we had an antitrust hearing.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Online shopping, streaming music and video and using various social media sites are among the most common daily tasks people do on Chromebooks. That screen is a 1080p panel thats sharp and bright, but its 16:9 aspect ratio made things feel a bit cramped when scrolling vertically. What do Chromebooks do well? inches and 2.6

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Reels allows users to create and post short, 15-second videos set to music or other audio, similar to TikTok. Throw a watch party on Amazon. Many of these large musical numbers never happened. Coming Tuesday : The Verge brings you further inside Clubhouse. Julia Alexander / The Verge ). Things to do. Host a charity stream.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Amazon lawyers told lawmakers Jeff Bezos is now willing to testify before a House antitrust investigation into the market power of major tech companies. Amazon had previously resisted making him available, prompting lawmakers to threaten to legally compel Bezos to testify. Cristiano Lima / Politico ). Annie Palmer / CNBC). Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Among the hacked accounts were President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, the Apple and Uber corporate accounts, and pop star Kanye West. Facebook is preparing to launch officially licensed music videos on its platform in the US next month. We are investigating and taking steps to fix it. But they came later.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

I particularly liked this proposed question, about Amazon: In a five-week period during the pandemic, your firm added the value of the world’s largest firm by revenue — Walmart. Over at Amazon, Bezos is preparing for his first-ever appearance before Congress. Amazon is carrying extremist merchandise related to the boogaloo movement.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The ambitious company is also pushing aggressively into a plethora of new arenas from gaming and search to music. Amazon is suing Brian Hall, the former vice president of marketing at AWS, for taking a job at Google Cloud. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If you think about the way Spotify gave us access to the back catalogue of music, VR is going to give us access to the back catalogue of objects that we can look at or that we can interact with — with other people, anywhere that we go. Oracle pushed Section 230 reform for years, in an effort to harm rivals like Amazon and Google.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The groups, which range in focus from video games to music to local communities, are moderated by other group members. The Ratio. ?? Trending down : Three Amazon workers are suing the company alleging that it failed to properly track and prevent the spread of COVID-19 in their warehouses. Nick Statt / The Verge ). ??

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon launched Luxury Stores on its mobile app, with Oscar de la Renta as its first brand partner. Someone put Bladerunner 2049 music to drone footage of San Francisco and at first I didn’t know whether to be amazed or horrified. And they deserve better answers than Sophie Zhang has gotten to date. Nicole Phelps / Vogue ).

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear before it, along with his peers at Amazon, Google, and Apple, on July 27th. Amazon will start displaying the business names and addresses of third-party sellers on its US marketplace. Today I learnt about #punk music. It will be in Congress. Eugene Kim / Business Insider ).

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The move escalates a global battle that will affect where tech giants like Facebook and Amazon pay taxes. Spotify , Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music have pledged their support for Blackout Tuesday with special playlists, moments of silence, and social media blackouts. The pessimist may not. Industry. ?

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

But last year, lawmakers and federal agencies began to stir, with the Federal Trade Commission requesting information from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. Trending up : Amazon Care, a pilot program that gives corporate employees access to virtual medical services, is expanding to warehouse works in the Seattle area.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

On Wednesday, Twitter had the worst security incident in company history , with a coordinated attack resulting in the takeover of more than a dozen high-profile accounts including President Obama, Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. Amazon added live streaming to its existing Amazon Influencer Program.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The TikTok deal could give Walmart a way to catch up to Amazon in e-commerce. Amazon is launching a new environmental program called Climate Pledge Friendly that will label products that meet one of 19 certifications for sustainability. Artists” like Pro Sound Effects Library, On Hold Music, and Yoga are a few of the offenders.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Canada’s antitrust watchdog launched an investigation into Amazon , to see whether its behavior has hurt consumers and smaller companies. The bureau is examining whether sellers can operate a successful business on the marketplace without using Amazon’s fulfillment or advertising services. Cristiano Lima / Politico ). Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

The company has evaded much of the scrutiny that companies like Amazon have gotten for working with law enforcement agencies. Fiona Scott Morton, a top antitrust expert known for her warnings that American tech giants are stifling competition, is also advising two of the biggest names in tech: Amazon and Apple. Governing. ?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It’s almost like, TikTok creates dance and music virility. Unless you just get these rocket science people, that are just beyond the best of what Google and Microsoft and Amazon and Facebook have, and Apple and Twitter have, you’re going to need to find. Do you think that’s going to hold?

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