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Amazon Becomes Vital Sales Outlet For Independent Merchants

By Catherine Perloff · Aug 24, 2026 6:00am PDT
When Lauren Wang started Flex in Los Angeles a decade ago, she wanted to create a new type of menstrual care product that wasn’t already on the market—a disposable disc that lasts longer than traditional tampons or pads. Flex sold through its own website early on; it was one of a number of brands going the direct-to-consumer route at the... When Lauren Wang started Flex in Los Angeles a decade ago, she wanted to create a new type of...
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Why a $14 Billion Startup Is Now Hiring PhD’s to Train AI From Their Living Rooms

By Cory Weinberg · Jun 25, 2024 6:00am PDT · 2 comments
Matt Mattingly sold the bed-and-breakfast inn he owned in southern Maine several years ago and was trying to “figure out what I want to be when I grow up.” This year, after looking for a remote job that would put his communications Ph.D. to use, he responded to an online ad looking for people to train artificial intelligence models... Matt Mattingly sold the bed-and-breakfast inn he owned in southern Maine several years ago and...
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The Twitter Verification Purge That Wasn’t

By Kaya Yurieff · Apr 3, 2023 2:00pm PDT · 1 comment
Public figures ranging from celebrities to journalists braced for their blue check marks on Twitter to disappear over the weekend if they weren’t paying for Twitter Blue, its subscription service. For the most part, this didn’t happen. Instead, the social network simply decided to update the description of verified accounts. But some rivals are... Public figures ranging from celebrities to journalists braced for their blue check marks on ...
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An Asbestos Lawyer’s New Crusade: Suing Social Media Companies

By Paris Martineau · Jul 26, 2024 9:01am PDT · 2 comments
In January, after members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had spent hours grilling tech CEOs about their platforms’ effects on children, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley pounced on Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Hawley, a Republican firebrand and a vocal tech critic, accused Zuckerberg of ignoring internal company data that suggested... In January, after members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had spent hours grilling tech CEOs...
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TikTok Pushes Social Features as Growth Cools

By Kaya Yurieff and Sylvia Varnham O'Regan · Dec 7, 2022 6:00am PST
For the past year or so, Meta Platforms has been fiddling with its Instagram app to make it look more like TikTok, the short-video juggernaut that has been siphoning away its audience. Lately, though, TikTok has started borrowing a few social media tricks from the likes of Meta’s Instagram and upstart photo-sharing app BeReal. One of the... For the past year or so, Meta Platforms has been fiddling with its Instagram app to make it look...