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    • Investigation: 12 of 22 contacted crypto news sites agreed, upon request, to publish paid content without marking it as sponsored; prices were $240 to $4,500 (Corin Faife/BREAKER)

    Corin Faife / BREAKER: Investigation: 12 of 22 contacted crypto news sites agreed, upon request, to publish paid content without marking it as sponsored; prices were $240 to $4,500  —  This article started out with an email, one that arrived in my inbox years ago.  I can’t remember when the first of them came exactly

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    • Amazon says its "other" sales, which are mostly comprised of its advertising services, earned nearly $2.5B in net sales in Q3, up 122% YoY from $1.12B (Alana Semuels/The Atlantic)

    Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: Amazon says its “other” sales, which are mostly comprised of its advertising services, earned nearly $2.5B in net sales in Q3, up 122% YoY from $1.12B  —  The e-commerce company has so much information about us that it’s become expert at shilling us things we didn’t even know we needed.

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    • The European Parliament adopts a resolution calling for an EU audit of Facebook's data protection and user security protocols (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

    Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The European Parliament adopts a resolution calling for an EU audit of Facebook’s data protection and user security protocols  —  The European Parliament has called for a full audit of Facebook following a string of data breach scandals — including the Cambridge Analytica affair. The European Parliament adopts a resolution calling

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    • Airbnb says it has hired Aristotle Balogh, Google's VP of engineering, application storage, and indexing and serving, to be its new CTO; current CTO to leave (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)

    Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Airbnb says it has hired Aristotle Balogh, Google’s VP of engineering, application storage, and indexing and serving, to be its new CTO; current CTO to leave  —  Megan Rose Dickey @meganrosedickey / 7 hours  —  Ahead of Airbnb’s expected initial public offering sometime within the next two years … Airbnb

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    • Interviews with 70+ current and former Netflix employees tell of a culture of candor and transparency that some find ruthless, demoralizing, and dysfunctional (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Interviews with 70+ current and former Netflix employees tell of a culture of candor and transparency that some find ruthless, demoralizing, and dysfunctional  —  Buzzwords and anxiety fill the hallways as Hollywood giant tries to maintain a winning culture amid breakneck growth; ‘sunshining’ the ‘N-word’ scandal Interviews with 70+ current and former

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    • Alphabet reports Q3 Google ad business revenue of $28.95B, "other" revenues, like cloud and hardware, of $4.64B, and traffic acquisition costs of $6.58B (Jillian D'Onfro/CNBC)

    Jillian D’Onfro / CNBC: Alphabet reports Q3 Google ad business revenue of $28.95B, “other” revenues, like cloud and hardware, of $4.64B, and traffic acquisition costs of $6.58B  —  Google-parent company Alphabet just reported its third quarter earnings.  The company beat earnings expectations but missed revenue expectations. Alphabet reports Q3 Google ad business revenue of .95B,

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    • Christie's sells a portrait by the French art collective Obvious generated using AI for $432,500, over 40x its estimated price, a first for the auction house (Gabe Cohn/New York Times)

    Gabe Cohn / New York Times: Christie’s sells a portrait by the French art collective Obvious generated using AI for $432,500, over 40x its estimated price, a first for the auction house  —  Last Friday, a portrait produced by artificial intelligence was hanging at Christie’s New York opposite an Andy Warhol print and beside a

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    • Amazon reports AWS Q3 revenue of $6.68B, up 46% YoY, and $2.1B in operating income; AWS was 12% of Amazon's total revenue and 56% of its total operating income (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

    Jordan Novet / CNBC: Amazon reports AWS Q3 revenue of $6.68B, up 46% YoY, and $2.1B in operating income; AWS was 12% of Amazon’s total revenue and 56% of its total operating income  —  Amazon’s cloud-computing business grew 46 in the third quarter, trailing analysts’ estimates. Amazon reports AWS Q3 revenue of .68B, up 46%

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    • Intel reports Q3 revenues of $19.2B, up 19% YoY, and net income of $6.4B, up 42% YoY, beating analyst estimates on strong PC and data center chip demand (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

    Jordan Novet / CNBC: Intel reports Q3 revenues of $19.2B, up 19% YoY, and net income of $6.4B, up 42% YoY, beating analyst estimates on strong PC and data center chip demand  —  Intel Intel stock rose 4 percent Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings. Intel reports Q3 revenues of .2B, up 19%

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    • Snap reports Q3 revenue of $298M, vs. $283M estimated, up 43% YoY, and DAUs of 186M, vs. 186.1M estimated, up 5% YoY but down 1% QoQ (Sara Salinas/CNBC)

    Sara Salinas / CNBC: Snap reports Q3 revenue of $298M, vs. $283M estimated, up 43% YoY, and DAUs of 186M, vs. 186.1M estimated, up 5% YoY but down 1% QoQ  —  – Wall Street was keeping a close eye on active user numbers for Snap’s namesake photo-sharing app, Snapchat, as global social media use plateaus.

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