Within a few weeks, Twitter plans to let users add photos, videos and links to tweets without counting them against the 140-character limit. It isn't quite the 10,000-character limit that execs have previously considered, but it's a sign of the company's increasing willingness to tinker with its product in order to add more users.
[Peter Kafka | Recode]
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway firm bought about $890 million worth of Apple shares, and even though Buffett himself wasn't involved in the transaction, it sent Apple shares up almost four percent.
[Arik Hesseldahl | Recode]
MCX, a consortium of major retailers that aims to create an Apple Pay competitor, announced that it was laying off 30 people (almost half its staff) and delaying the launch of its beleaguered CurrentC payments app for the second time in less than a year.
[Noah Kulwin and Jason Del Rey | Recode]
Unions have spent years trying to organize the 90,000-plus workers in Amazon warehouses, but the company has successfully thwarted any real labor organizing effort. In countries such as Germany, however, trade unions have enjoyed a lot more success.
[Nick Wingfield | The New York Times]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has talked a lot about corporate diversity and Twitter's relationship with TV, so it makes sense that he just appointed BET CEO and chairman Debra Lee to Twitter's board of directors.
[Peter Kafka | Recode]
Amazon
By Jason Del Rey
Free delivery, but the fee for restaurants to participate is steep
Google
By Mark Bergen
Here is Google's strategy to score app install ads.
Transportation
By Johana Bhuiyan
Self-driving cars are coming. The question is when and how.
Google
By Mark Bergen
Select employees of some big local companies can hitch a ride with the app's pilot program.
Facebook
By Peter Kafka
It's "far more open and fair to conservatives than Twitter," says Erick Erickson.
Amazon
By Jason Del Rey
As if Amazon needed more power.
Republican Congressional candidate Mike Webb of Virginia screencapped some Yahoo search results and posted it to Facebook in order to deliver a sick burn to a political rival. He unwittingly included tabs from porn sites in the screenshot, and then proceeded to send backpedaling statements to Gawker that are on par with what I told my parents in high school when I had received a bad report card.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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