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Amazon Will Pay Taxes In Seattle If It’s The Last Thing Kshama Sawant Does
An ugly fight in 2018 saw Amazon and other business interests strong-arm the Seattle City Council into repealing a small tax meant to alleviate the city’s homelessness crisis. Today, in a bold challenge to Jeff Bezos and other oligarchs of the Pacific Northwest who call Seattle their corporate home, Seattle council-member and avowed socialist Kshama…
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Seamless+ Exists Now, Because Every Goddamn Thing Needs To Be A Subscription Service
Ten dollars a month will buy you some decent things, even in this economy. Or you can flush it down the shiny new toilet that is Seamless+.
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Kickstarter Has Successfully Unionised
In a historic vote, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has become the first major tech company to successfully form a union, with a narrow vote of 46 workers in favour and 37 against.
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U.S. Federal Trade Commission Digging Into Big Tech’s Past For Possible Anticompetitive Mergers And Acquisitions
Adding to the already-considerable interest in antitrust enforcement against major U.S. tech companies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a Special Order on Wednesday demanding information from Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook about their mergers and acquisitions over a ten year period.