Mia Sato / The Verge:
Amazon quietly shuts Fabric.com, an online retailer of fabrics, trims, notions, and other supplies since the late 1990s before being acquired by Amazon in 2008 — Crafters, home sewists, and small businesses will soon lose a major online fabric source.
Reuters:
Sources: Sea, whose market cap has gone from $200B+ to ~$28B since Oct. 2021, shuts some Latin American operations and cuts hundreds of gaming jobs in Shanghai — Singapore-based Sea Ltd’s (SE.N) e-commerce arm Shopee will exit Argentina and shut local operations in Chile …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter alternative Hive temporarily shuts down after researchers found vulnerabilities that would have let hackers access DMs and edit others’ Hive posts — The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
YouTube launches a video player for education, removing ads, external links, and recommendations, available for Google Classroom and other education apps — Plus creator tools for courses and quizzes — YouTube is introducing a handful of new features for creators and institutions using the platform for educational content.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Roblox will add age guidelines to its games, announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and other surfaces — And it’s bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
A study by Mozilla using YouTube recommendation data from 20,000+ users and 500M+ videos finds the “dislike” and “not interested” buttons have little impact — Even when users tell YouTube they aren’t interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found.
Louise Matsakis / Semafor:
TikTok has quietly launched its livestreaming e-commerce feature TikTok Shop in the US this week; source: TikTok has invited select US businesses to participate — TikTok quietly entered the United States e-commerce market this week, where it will compete with Amazon and other retail giants during the coming holiday shopping season.
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