capitalism
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Uber Might Not Take Over The World, But It Is Still Normalising Job Insecurity
The effective exclusion of Uber from London, one of the digital platform’s most lucrative markets, adds to a small but significant list of places putting up roadblocks to “uberisation”.
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Amazon’s Fight With South American Countries Over Control Of ‘.amazon’ Domain Name Comes To A Head
Back in 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it would vastly expand the number of top-level domains, allowing hundreds of new ones to flourish. You can now buy domains for .mango, .luxury and .republican if you’re so inclined. However, there’s one top-level domain that’s still engaged in a bitter…
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Amazon Is Reportedly Sick Of Hawking You Cheap ‘Crap’ That Doesn’t Make It Any Money
Amazon, a company valued at $1 trillion earlier this year, is reportedly sick of selling you cheap shit that isn’t making it more money.
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Women Open Up To The New York Times About Silicon Valley’s Sexual Harassment Problem
The New York Times just dropped a lengthy and detailed report on Silicon Valley’s oft-rumoured, rarely spoken about sexual harassment problem. More than two dozen women working in the technology industry spoke to the Times, following a report about a week ago in The Information about how venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck routinely preyed upon female…