December 23, 20210CommentsProfile of Airbnb’s technical co-founder Nate Blecharczyk, often tasked with the company’s trickiest projects, like giving away $250M to 4M hosts in 2020 (Steven Bertoni/Forbes)
December 23, 20210CommentsAnalysis: since 2018, Amazon has opened 153 US facilities in “opportunity zones”, created by a 2017 law, to access tax breaks whose impact is hard to measure (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
December 23, 20210CommentsSources: Intel plans an R&D center in France, test and assembly factory in Italy, and major wafer production fab in Germany (Bloomberg)
December 23, 20210CommentsInternal docs show Amazon is struggling to retain Alexa device users; in some years between 2018-2021, 15%-25% of new users were no longer active after one week (Priya Anand/Bloomberg)
December 23, 20210CommentsHuawei debuts P50 Pocket, a clamshell-style folding device with a circular 1″ external display and 6.9″ internal display, coming to China starting at ~$1,400 (James Vincent/The Verge)
December 23, 20210CommentsHow Tobi Lütke led Shopify to becoming an e-commerce giant, helping ~2M merchants run stores as its market cap rose from $46B in early 2020 to $174B today (Brad Stone/Bloomberg)
December 23, 20210CommentsA look at attempts by TikTok’s biggest stars to expand onto other platforms, including Charli D’Amelio’s Hulu docuseries, often with mixed results (Jon Caramanica/New York Times)
