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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. Now Meta and Twitter want your money, too. “If If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media.

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Why Spotify’s Horacio Gutierrez thinks Apple behaves like a monopolist

The Verge

Spotify’s chief legal officer on tech’s ‘ruthless bully’ This week I’m talking to Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs and chief legal officer of Spotify, to help me understand why Spotify and so many other app developers are so frustrated with Apple. Because if you can’t make that case, then aren’t we just moving money around?

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How Shopify’s network of sellers can take on Amazon

The Verge

The phrase he used was “being the empire vs. arming the rebels,” which, yeah, that’s pretty good. One thing to pay attention to: every time I talk to an executive from a platform company, we wind up talking about moderation issues, and Shopify did ban Donald Trump’s store after the January 6th Capitol riots. Thank you for having me.

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