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February 27, 2019, 10:55 AM

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Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day:
An in-depth analysis of social media platforms through the lens of social capital theory and why we should think of them as “Status as a Service” businesses  —  Editor's Note 1: I have no editor.  —  Editor's Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one.
Federal Trade Commission:
FTC settles with supplement maker in first case involving allegedly fake paid Amazon reviews to gain a five-star rating, will suspend most of $12.8M judgment  —  Commission also alleges weight-loss supplement claims were deceptive  —  The Federal Trade Commission today announced …
Katyanna Quach / The Register:
IBM apologizes after some US online job application forms asked for the ethnicity of applicants and used racial slurs, says the questions have been removed  —  Tech giants under fire?  Hold my beer, says Big Blue as it spins up race slur recruitment websites
Gus Garcia-Roberts / USA Today:
Twitter has permanently suspended Jacob Wohl for creating and operating fake accounts, after he shared plans to make deceptive accounts before the 2020 election  —  Twitter announced that it is permanently suspending Jacob Wohl, a 21-year-old Internet hoaxer and supporter of President Donald Trump …
Manish Singh / VentureBeat:
Spotify launches in India with monthly premium tier starting at 119 rupees or ~$1.67, says free tier users in India can stream any song on demand on mobile  —  A year after Spotify publicly expressed its intention to launch in India, the music streaming company has finally delivered.
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers  —  And they're going to look at previous mergers  —  The Federal Trade Commission will be launching a task force to monitor competition …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Threads, which aims to create a user-friendly asynchronous chat platform for coworkers, comes out of stealth with $10.5M Series A from Sequoia  —  The rapid rise of Slack has ushered in a new wave of apps, all aiming to solve one challenge: creating a user-friendly platform where coworkers can have productive conversations.

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