Court filing: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, Within CEO Chris Milk, and others to testify in the FTC case against Meta’s acquisition of Within (Ismail Shakil/Reuters)

New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg testified in federal court about Meta’s acquisition of Within, as the FTC’s highly unusual challenge seeks an injunction to stop the deal  —  Meta’s chief executive made a rare court appearance as the Federal Trade Commission tries to block his company’s purchase of the virtual reality start-up Within.

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: in its case against Meta’s Within acquisition, FTC asks a judge to remove some allegations about anticompetitive effects in the VR fitness apps market  —  The US Federal Trade Commission is narrowing its case against Meta Platforms Inc.’s proposed acquisition of virtual reality app Within Unlimited, according to a court filing.

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
The FTC says Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy cannot avoid testifying in an ongoing investigation into Prime membership, after Amazon pushed back against the probe  —  Commissioners deny company’s request to quash subpoenas and pare back investigation  —  Amazon vs. Walmart: How the Giants Look to Each Other to Best Each Other

Ashley Gold / Axios:
Meta files to dismiss the FTC’s attempt to block its acquisition of Within, arguing the FTC’s claims rely on “pure speculation of a hypothetical future state”  —  Meta filed to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to block its acquisition of virtual reality fitness startup Within …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with LinkedIn’s Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen on the number of people hired via LinkedIn being a core metric, generative AI, regulation, and more  —  We dive into managing the relationships between designers, engineers, and PMs. … Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn …

Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post:
After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately  —  Alibaba Group Holding has named a new chief technology officer (CTO) and removed the president of its cloud computing services unit …