Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
A look at Alphabet-owned Verily’s opioid addition rehab clinic in Dayton, Ohio, which has largely taken a low-tech approach to treat ~5,200 patients — Christopher Boggs started smoking pot in his teens, moved on to cocaine, and finally settled on opioids, which allowed him to evade …
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Alphabet’s Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January — Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that’s previously experimented with diabetes-detecting contact lenses …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Mark Bergen on his book “Like, Comment, Subscribe”, chronicling YouTube’s evolution from a scrappy startup to a pivotal part of Google and social media — Mark Bergen takes us inside the black box … YouTube has always been fascinating to me because it’s such a black box …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches Amazon Clinic, a telehealth marketplace for third-party virtual consultants, available in 32 US states, months after shuttering Amazon Care — The ink is not yet dry on Amazon’s $4 billion acquisition of OneMedical, but in the meantime, the online services giant is making …
Mark Bergen / The Verge:
A book excerpt details how YouTube’s love affair with PewDiePie soured in 2017, before he stopped pushing boundaries and signed a livestreaming deal in 2020 — The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit focused on antisemitism, received an unusual invitation from YouTube in early 2017: come meet our biggest influencer.
Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Gas, an iOS app that lets teens “gas up each other”; Data.AI: Gas had 500K+ downloads since August launch, despite being limited to a few US states — Gas is topping Apple’s App Store charts despite being limited to a handful of states — TBH was hot.
Nelson Wang / CoinDesk:
Washington, DC sues Michael Saylor for tax fraud and his company MicroStrategy “for conspiring to help him evade taxes” “on hundreds of millions of dollars” — The attorney general’s office is also suing the business software company for allegedly helping him evade taxes on his earnings in the district.
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