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Apple employees are going public about workplace issues
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Spreadsheet horror stories
9 votes -
Censorship, surveillance, and profits: A hard bargain for Apple in China
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Substack is selling soap operas
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Twitter has acquired Scroll, a subscription for news sites, and intends to integrate it into their own upcoming subscription service
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Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
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A third of Basecamp’s workers resign after a ban on talking politics
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Discord has halted talks with Microsoft and other potential acquirers, is resuming interest in a future IPO
28 votes -
LG to close mobile phone business worldwide
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Amazon's Twitter army was handpicked for "great sense of humor" leaked document reveals
18 votes -
A story about losing $10M on a to-do list startup
@Andrew Wilkinson: This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.Ten. Million. Dollars.Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.That's enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.Here's what happened...
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Substack has raised a $65 million Series B funding round, at a $650 million valuation
10 votes -
Whistleblower alleges Ubiquiti massively downplayed a “catastrophic” incident to minimize the hit to its stock price
18 votes -
Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10 billion
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Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is to axe between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years as it cuts costs
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Reddit hires its first chief financial officer as it prepares for an IPO
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Brave has acquired Cliqz and their Tailcat search engine, plans to offer a privacy-oriented search engine
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Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good
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Reddit has raised $368 million in Series E funding, at a $6 billion valuation
15 votes -
Tim Cook expanded Apple in ways Steve Jobs used to resist
10 votes -
Parler CEO John Matze says he was terminated by the company's board, which is controlled by investor Rebekah Mercer
8 votes -
Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
7 votes -
Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server
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Twitter has acquired the Revue editorial newsletter service, made Pro features free and reduced the fee for paid newsletters to 5%, and will start integrating it into Twitter
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The future of building for digital: Experts talk about changing customer expectations
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Inside eBay’s cockroach cult: The ghastly story of a stalking scandal
11 votes -
How Linksys’ most famous router, the WRT54G, tripped into legendary status because of an undocumented feature that slipped through during a merger
25 votes -
Google employees form union
42 votes -
Neofeudalism and the digital manor
14 votes -
Platforms, bundling and kill zones
6 votes -
Inside the whale: An interview with an anonymous Amazon employee
9 votes -
Elon Musk says Apple CEO Tim Cook refused talks to buy Tesla at $60 billion valuation during 2017
9 votes -
The story of 1987's Acorn Archimedes, the first production ARM/RISC-based personal computer
9 votes -
US federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls
11 votes -
Discord raises another $100M in venture capital ($480M total now) at a valuation of $7 billion
11 votes -
Do you think that Shopify could soon rival Amazon?
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I...
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded
I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I watch all of the developments that Shopify makes both from a technical development standpoint and logistical standpoint, it becomes more and more clear to me that Shopify can begin to take on Amazon directly.
The introduction of Shop app, which aggregates all shipments into a single application including those outside of Amazon, also allows users to browse products from any particular Shopify store. The app also notifies you of any shipping updates, and when packages have been delivered.
From a technical standpoint, Shopify's main attractions come down to a few things: order management, credit card processing, customer management, and plugin integrations. This is the core of Shopify's platform for both larger and smaller businesses. Though due to Shopify's requirement of using their CMS to serve your content, enterprise users have to look elsewhere in order to build something called "headless builds", which essentially use alternate CMS mixed with Shopify's CMS to continue serving their content.
There are a few companies that make such software in order to build out a fully custom site while still using the Shopify platform as its core, though at the moment they are a little 'hacky' but still fully functional. Given the interest in Shopify's platform at such a high level, they are very likely working on their own headless framework which could allow for 1) mainstream stores to integrate their existing platforms into a unified Shopify marketplace, and 2) to allow stores to build out fully custom websites using the Shopify platform at its core and also enroll them into a unified Shopify marketplace.
Amazon has mostly become a front for cheap Chinese-made products, laden with review manipulation and questionable product quality. By instead bringing large brands on board with a unified Shopify marketplace, those stores can sell quality products backed by their brands which can gain trust from customers, and will give rise to smaller brands that may have been unnoticed by larger populations.
[ For example, I recently bought a pair of shoes from a very popular Shopify store: they represent quality, comfort, and eco-friendliness. I personally find myself more willing to spend money on quality products from companies I know I can trust. ]What's everyone's thoughts? Are there any general problems that could come from Shopify trying to jump-start a full-blown marketplace? Do you think that companies would be willing to integrate their ERP's and CMS's with whatever API's or headless framework Shopify decides to build out?
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Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash
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"They demolished my house for this?" In Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, families were forced out for a huge Foxconn factory, but three years later, it still hasn’t been built
22 votes -
Hyundai Motor acquires Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for approximately $920 million
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We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.
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Spotify claims it’s dominating the podcasting market because of a million-plus tiny podcasts
8 votes -
Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Slack for approximately $27.7 billion
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Tony Hsieh, former Zappos CEO and visionary, dies at 46
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Apple will reduce App Store commission to 15% for small businesses earning up to $1 million per year, starting January 1, 2021
16 votes -
Amazon wants to win over Sweden – the Swedes have other ideas
7 votes -
Company made to change name that could be used for XSS vulnerabilities
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AMD to acquire FPGA-creator Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion
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Streaming app Quibi is shutting down, after raising $1.75 billion and launching six months ago
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The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
6 votes