Microsoft is shutting down their Mixer livestreaming service on July 22 and encouraging users to switch to Facebook Gaming ~games Article 600 words 36 votes
Ready at Dawn (developer of VR games Lone Echo, Echo Arena, Echo Combat) has been aquired by Facebook's Oculus Studios ~games Article 617 words 3 votes
Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter ~tech social media Article 4080 words 7 votes
Apple doubles down on its right to profit from other businesses ~tech apple.app store Article 1816 words 11 votes
Norway should add a number of restrictions to the kinds of weapons its $1 trillion wealth fund is allowed to invest in, a government-appointed commission said ~finance business Article 6 votes
Riot Games investigating exec who blamed George Floyd’s murder on his "lifestyle" ~games Article 604 words 12 votes
Amazon may face EU antitrust charges over merchant data in coming weeks ~finance business Article 243 words 5 votes
Ford recalls 2.15 million US vehicles for potentially faulty door latches ~transport Article 176 words 4 votes
Grubhub to merge with European food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com ~finance business Article 342 words 5 votes
Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement on its board of directors ~tech social media Article 838 words 18 votes
Fujifilm will spend $928 million to double capacity at a drug manufacturing facility in Denmark, which it has pledged to use in producing COVID-19 treatments ~health Article 244 words 6 votes
Changing the world with drones – Helena Samsioe is widely known as the 'Drone Queen' since founding GLOBHE in 2015 ~tech Video 4:53 3 votes
Several subreddits have posted a open letter "Open Letter to Steve Huffman and the Board of Directors of Reddit, Inc– If you believe in standing up to hate and supporting black lives, you need to act" ~tech social media Link 38 votes
Alexis Ohanian (site co-founder) resigns from Reddit's board, urging them to fill his seat with a black candidate and pledging future gains on his stock to serve the black community ~tech social media Link 63 votes
Nearly half of commercial retail rents were not paid in April and May ~finance business Article 1787 words 9 votes
Amazon drops $2 coronavirus pay rise for warehouse workers as CEO Jeff Bezos' fortune nears $150 billion ~finance business Article 1580 words 18 votes
Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest US President Donald Trump posts ~tech facebook social media Article 894 words 16 votes
US taxpayers' virus relief went to firms that avoided US taxes ~finance business.small Article 1769 words 12 votes
News Corp has announced a massive shakeup of its publishing businesses, moving almost all its community and regional newspaper titles to a digital-only format ~news australia journalism Article 801 words 8 votes
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed ~tech Article 984 words 7 votes
Inside the flour company supplying America’s sudden baking obsession ~food baking Article 49 words, published May 20 2020 4 votes
US DOJ urges High Court to shield companies from slave labor suits citing 230 year old tort statute ~news usa law Article 417 words 4 votes
13% of museums worldwide may close permanently due to COVID-19, studies say ~arts Article 523 words, published May 20 2020 10 votes
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5 million to build the case for a universal basic income ~finance business Article 1047 words 13 votes
Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer ~science chemistry medicine Article 374 words 10 votes
America’s only public bank, the Bank of North Dakota, is number one in saving small businesses ~finance banking economics business.small Article 334 words 10 votes
After the crisis, big business could get even bigger: the pandemic and its response thus far are perfectly designed to concentrate corporate power--but we don’t have to accept that ~finance economics business.big Article 2700 words 6 votes
Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable? ~tech facebook social media Article 581 words 5 votes
Uber lays off another 3000 employees, shuts forty-five offices in coronavirus crunch ~transport Article 502 words 7 votes
Amazon eliminates pay raises for workers as COVID-19 toll mounts ~finance economics business Article 1069 words 5 votes