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Amazon acquires podcast network Wondery

TechCrunch

Amazon just announced that it’s acquiring Wondery, the network behind podcasts including “Dirty John” and “Dr. At the same time, the announcement claims that “nothing will change for listeners” and that the network’s podcasts will continue to be available from “a variety of providers.”

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Meta reportedly set to launch Threads in the EU next month

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Since its launch in July, Meta’s text-based social network Threads has gained many features, but a major missing part in the puzzle has been the app’s availability in the EU. The company, however, could launch the platform in the EU next month, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Research: How Women Can Build High-Status Networks

Harvard Business Review

Despite the potential career benefits of building high-status networks, research has long shown that women face greater obstacles in establishing these networks compared to men.

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NFX’s James Currier: Where unicorn ideas come from and why founders ‘have to keep pivoting’

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Network effects: Your product becomes more valuable as more people use it. Pop culture and tech journalism lionize founders who shoot for the moon, “so most people think of having ideas,” said Currier, noting that unicorns like Lyft, Meta and Alphabet simply “copied” existing companies.

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Medium acquires social book reading app Glose

TechCrunch

The vast majority of the world’s ideas are stored in books and journals, yet are hardly searchable nor shareable. With Glose, we want to improve that experience within Medium’s large network of engaged readers and writers. “Books are a means of exploring an idea, a way to go deeper.

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Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app

TechCrunch

Over time, this system led some publishers to pursue clicks and outrage with over-the-top, sensational headlines, but it also spawned a network of publications that would slant and bias the news in ways that better connected them with an either right- or left-leaning audience. Image Credits: Gawq. Image Credits: Gawq.

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In Controversial Study, Facebook Investigates Networks of Emotions

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Facebook recently conducted a somewhat similar study, Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks , to investigate whether changes in social news feeds can influence individuals’ moods and behaviors. In a world where billions are connected by online social networks, these findings are significant indeed.

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