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Butler shows hundreds of employees the door after raising $50M for room service delivery

TechCrunch

To customers, it pledged to deliver orders — including “convenience” items on the side, like chargers and shaving cream — in under 30 minutes, charged directly to their hotel bill. ” The larger-scale layoffs started in May, shortly after Butler hired a new COO and chief revenue officer.

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Nine things we learned from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg facing his employees

The Verge

Reported cases in New York: 377,881. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 2,167,831. Reported cases in New Jersey: 161,545. Total test results (positive and negative) in New Jersey: 817,677. Data from The New York Times. Reported cases in Illinois: 121,666.

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How Amazon is growing its power during the pandemic

The Verge

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reported cases in New York: 343,705.

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

The Verge

Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. The company tweeted that it was pledging the funds “in support of efforts to address social injustice.” (Kim Reported cases in New York: 376,520. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 2,063,825. Data from The New York Times.

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The antitrust case against Google is becoming just another partisan fight

The Verge

But in a new paper, a former Obama antitrust official offers one of her own. Or even what ever happened to Trump’s 2019 pledge to investigate Google for “treason” (?!). Reported cases in New York: 356,278. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 1,439,557. Reported cases in New Jersey: 148,039.

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Trump withdraws order targeting law firm and gets $40 million in free legal work

Fast Company Tech

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is withdrawing an executive order that targeted law firm Paul Weiss, saying the firm “acknowledged the wrongdoing” of an attorney who investigated the president and has pledged $40 million in free legal work to support the administration. On Monday the U.S.

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