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A look at the growing online movement against multilevel-marketing companies, as TikTok becomes the first major platform to explicitly ban multilevel marketing (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: A look at the growing online movement against multilevel-marketing companies, as TikTok becomes the first major platform to explicitly ban multilevel marketing  —  This week, when TikTok announced an updated version of its community guidelines, one small addition was more surprising than the others. A look at the growing online

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Hello, Holograms

Holograms are tricky to describe because science-fiction gives the name to any three-dimensional image. The science-fact versions are not as flashy, but they are still darn cool. Legitimate holograms are images stored on a photographic medium, and they retain a picture of the subject from certain angles. In other words, when [Justin Atkin] makes a

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Online boutique marketplace Jane raises $40M Series A from Tritium Partners; Jane was founded in 2011 and is expected to generate $250M in sales this year (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)

Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: Online boutique marketplace Jane raises $40M Series A from Tritium Partners; Jane was founded in 2011 and is expected to generate $250M in sales this year  —  Online marketplace Jane has raised a $40 million Series A from Tritium Partners, the company announced Tuesday. Online boutique marketplace Jane raises M

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China's regulatory crackdown to limit the influence of Jack Ma, who has long cultivated the image of a rebel fighting the system, has been years in the making (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: China’s regulatory crackdown to limit the influence of Jack Ma, who has long cultivated the image of a rebel fighting the system, has been years in the making  —  When Jack Ma took to a Shanghai conference stage in October, China’s most famous entrepreneur was on the brink of pulling off … China's regulatory

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China's market regulator announces antitrust investigations into Alibaba, first of its kind for a Chinese internet company, for alleged monopolistic practices (Financial Times)

Financial Times: China’s market regulator announces antitrust investigations into Alibaba, first of its kind for a Chinese internet company, for alleged monopolistic practices  —  Probe into country’s biggest tech group is one of the first of its kind for the internet sector China's market regulator announces antitrust investigations into Alibaba, first of its kind for

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Source: Square has held talks to acquire music streaming service Tidal, which Jay-Z acquired for $56M in early 2015 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Source: Square has held talks to acquire music streaming service Tidal, which Jay-Z acquired for $56M in early 2015  —  – Streaming music platform has struggled to keep up with Spotify  — Dorsey has met with Jay-Z multiple times during the pandemic  —  Square Inc., the digital-payment … Source: Square has held talks to

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