Do you know how much sales tax Amazon has helped Americans avoid since Jeff Bezos started it in his garage in 1994? $20.4 billion In truth, it’s certainly more than that. That eye-popping figure is a straightforward calculation from Dean Baker and Evan Butcher of CEPR, the Center for Economic Policy Research. They figured it […]
Oracle, the second-largest business software company in the world that’s best known for its cloud platform offerings, announced the launch of a brand-new “Internet Intelligence Map” last Wednesday. The map service “will help to democratize Internet analysis by exposing some of our internal capabilities to the general public in a single tool,” said Doug Madory, […]
It seems like you can’t look at tech news without seeing five new articles about Facebook. From scandals to new platform features, it’s nigh impossible to escape new developments about Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. So let’s dive into the latest goings-on from that site we all love to hate with a condensed look at a few […]
I’m going to come right out and say it: LEGO was my favorite part of this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote. Yes, the conference that Apple junkies everywhere live for kicked off Monday at the San Jose Convention Center with a keynote that was largely focused on the release of iOS 12. Over […]
Remember the early days of the internet, when it glimmered with the promise of free and easily accessible information? That was lovely, wasn’t it? Well, it looks more and more like those days are coming to an end, with the most recent indications coming from Bloomberg and Facebook. On May 2, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait […]
It’s refreshing to see a couple major players in the social media sphere attempt to make amends for their egregious mistakes, even if that atonement comes way, way later than it should have. The errors in question are Snapchat’s recent and massively unpopular redesign and YouTube’s algorithm allowing highly inappropriate videos into their app for […]