Tue. 11/23 – How To Automate Your(self out of a?) Job

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Italy has fined Amazon and Apple for alleged collusion. Tile taps out by getting acquired. Niantic is an interesting metaverse raise. Walmart is testing Twitter live shopping. And the story of the guy who automated his job so completely, he didn’t work for five years, but still got paid. Sponsors: MasterWorks.io/ride Detectify.com/techmeme Links: Amazon and Apple handed $225 million in Italian antitrust fines (Reuters) Samsung to Choose Taylor, Texas, for $17 Billion Chip-Making Factory (WSJ) AirTag Competitor Tile Getting Acquired by Location Sharing App Life360 (MacRumors) Niantic raises $300M at at $9B valuation to build the 'real-world metaverse' (TechCrunch) Walmart will be the first retailer to test Twitter’s new livestream shopping platform (TechCrunch) “You’ve Won The Game”: Employee Hacks His Job, Gets Paid To Do Nothing For 5 Years (BoredPanda) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Main Right Home for Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021.
0:07.6	I'm Brian McCullough. Today Italy has fined Amazon and Apple for alleged collusion.
0:12.1	Tyle taps out by getting acquired.
0:14.5	Neantic is an interesting metaverse raise.
0:16.9	Walmart is testing Twitter live shopping.
0:19.5	And the story of the guy who automated his job so completely,
0:22.4	he didn't work for five years but still got paid.
0:26.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:30.0	Italy's antitrust regulator has fined Amazon and Apple a total of more than
0:36.8	$225 million for alleged anti-competitive cooperation to sell Apple and Beats
0:42.4	products quoting Reuters.
0:45.0	Contractual provisions of a 2018 agreement between the companies meant only selected resellers were allowed to sell Apple and Beats products on Amazon.
0:53.1	I.T. the watchdog said, adding that this was in violation of European Union rules
0:58.1	and affected competition on prices.
1:00.2	Both Apple and Amazon said they plan to appeal against the fines.
1:03.4	The authority imposed a fine of 68.7 million euros on Amazon and 134.5 million euros on Apple,
1:10.0	ordering the companies to end the restrictions to give retailers of genuine Apple and Beats
1:14.5	products access to Amazon.IT in a non-discriminatory manner.
1:19.0	To ensure our customers purchase genuine products, we work closely with our reseller partners and have dedicated teams of experts around the world
1:25.0	who work with law enforcement, customs and merchants to ensure
1:28.0	only genuine Apple products are being sold.
1:30.0	Apple said, denying any wrongdoing.
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