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Top 12 Alternatives to Smashwords for Self-Publishing Ebooks
In the last decade, ebooks have fast transformed from niche to mainstream. Readers across the world consume digital books in unprecedented numbers today. This surge has enabled authors to self-publish and directly access a global readership.
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YouTube Slices Jobs To Streamline Expanding Creator Economy
Google’s video behemoth YouTube shaved roughly 100 positions to refine operations supporting its ballooning community of content creators. The latest in a string of job cuts across Google divisions, the move aims to consolidate teams under centralized leadership as the platform bolsters creator tools and revenue streams.
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The Giant Cometh, Meta's Bold Plan to Join the Fediverse
Last month, Meta hosted a private meeting to discuss their integration plans between their new Threads app and the federated social network Mastodon. While Meta’s motives are still unclear, they revealed an ambitious roadmap for interoperability over the next two years.
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Instagram Founders' News Startup Artifact To Close Shop After Failing to Gain Traction
Artifact, the news aggregator app created by Instagram’s founders, is closing down after a little over a year in operation. The startup announced in a blog post that they have decided to “wind down operations” of the app, saying the market opportunity wasn’t big enough to warrant further investment.
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Google Assistant Undergoes Spring Cleaning, Removing 17 Lesser-Used Features
Google is tidying up its popular voice assistant service Google Assistant, removing over 15 niche features in an effort to enhance “quality and reliability.” The news comes amid layoffs across Google’s hardware, Assistant and Cloud divisions.
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eBay Fined $3 Million Over Executives' Campaign to Stalk, Harass Critics
eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million fine, the maximum criminal penalty, for a disturbing stalking campaign targeting a Massachusetts couple who published a newsletter critical of the company. What had covered this nearly 3 years ago in an article named inside eBay’s alleged plot that targeted a blogging duo. The harassment, orchestrated by top eBay executives, included sending the couple threatening messages, having employees surveil their home, and mailing them unsettling packages.
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Twitch Announces Additional Layoffs, Cutting 500 Jobs
Livestreaming giant Twitch is slashing its workforce yet again, cutting 35% of staff in its second major round of layoffs over the past year. The Amazon-owned company will lay off roughly 500 employees, according to a Bloomberg report, in an announcement expected as early as this week.
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The Cookie Crumbles, How Google's Phase Out of Third-Party Cookies Will Impact Digital Marketing
Google has taken the next step towards its goal of phasing out third-party cookies from its Chrome browser. On January 4th, 2024, the company enabled a new privacy feature called Tracking Protection for 1% of Chrome desktop and Android users globally. This feature restricts access to third-party cookies by default.
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Brace For Impact As TikTok Shop Raises Seller Fees to 8%
TikTok Shop has experienced rapid early growth by offering sellers enticing incentives like low commission fees and heavy product discounts. However, the company has realized these free rides can’t last forever if they want to build a sustainable business.
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New Telegram Update, including a Kaleidoscopic Facelift, Pixelized Deletions, and a Colossal Bot Boost
Telegram’s 10th update of 2023 polishes calls until they dazzle, unleashes vanishing messages with a pixelized flourish, and catapults bots into a new stratosphere of capabilities.