Fri. 10/25 - Introducing Facebook News

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🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Introducing Facebook News. Did the major US Carriers do an end-run around Google out of spite? Amazon is back to making as little profit as it possibly can, HBO Max makes its aggressive pricing move, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Mealime LegalForce RAPC (650-390-6461 or raj@legalforcelaw.com) Links: Rupert Murdoch wanted Mark Zuckerberg to pay him for news stories — and now Facebook is going to do just that (Recode) [Update: Google responds] Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile join forces to bring RCS to Android in 2020 (9to5Google) AMAZON.COM ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER SALES UP 24% TO $70.0 BILLION (Amazon) Behind AT&T's plan to take on Netflix, Apple and Disney with HBO Max (Reuters) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time (Buzzfeed) Inside R/Relationships, the Unbearably Human Corner of Reddit (The Atlantic) He revolutionized how millions of people spend money in India. His next target: America (CNN Business) Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell (Wired) Pentagon, With an Eye on China, Pushes for Help From American Tech (NYTimes) Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy (MIT Technology Review) How Do You Like We Now (Bloomberg Opinion) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, October 25th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Introducing Facebook News. Did the major U.S. carriers do an end run around Google out of spite?
0:17.0	Amazon is back to making as little profit as it possibly can.
0:20.0	HBO Max makes its aggressive pricing move and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:25.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Facebook today began testing what it is calling Facebook News with a small
0:36.9	set of users in the US across four categories of news general, topical, diverse, and local news.
0:44.5	If you are a part of the test, you will see a dedicated news tab inside the Facebook
0:50.0	app.
0:51.0	Facebook is manually curating the news outlets that will have
0:54.2	distribution within the tab. And among the partners right now are the New York
0:58.3	Times, Conde Nast, Dow Jones, Reuters, the Associated Press, Business Insider,
1:02.4	Buzzfeed, and some local news
1:04.3	outlets in New York, L.A. Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Philadelphia, D.C. Miami,
1:09.8	Houston, Atlanta, and Boston. Peter Kafka is reporting that Facebook will pay some of these news partners up to 3 million dollars a year for the right to feature their content in the tab, quoting Kafka.
1:21.0	Users who click on the icon will see headlines for a handful of top stories selected
1:24.9	by Facebook editors and a personalized selection of headlines selected by Facebook's
1:29.0	algorithmic software.
1:30.8	Clicking on those headlines will send users to the publisher's own sites where
1:34.4	Facebook users can read the entire story for free and while sites with
1:37.8	subscription-based business models will have to let Facebook users see
1:41.2	individual articles without paying they'll be able to keep their paywalls mostly
1:45.1	intact. If you click on a Wall Street Journal article via Facebook's news section, for example,
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