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TikTok has sent the sales of some books skyrocketing. Industry insiders explain how they are riding the wave of the BookTok phenomenon. businessinsider.com
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Cameo defends its decision to partner with the 'Tinder Swindler': 'Part of what makes Cameo special is the diversity and variety of personalities' businessinsider.com
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Kidnapped for crypto: Criminals see flashy crypto owners as easy targets, and it has led to a disturbing string of violent robberies businessinsider.com
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Uber will launch driverless food deliveries in California in 2022 businessinsider.com
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Uber discriminates against passengers with disabilities by charging them wait fees, a Department of Justice lawsuit alleges businessinsider.com
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Tech recruiters struggled for years to get people to leave Facebook. Now they say there's an exodus building, and the company is having more trouble recruiting, too. businessinsider.com
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A Reddit user found a 'black hole' on Google maps, and users couldn't figure out what it was businessinsider.com
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Digital end-of-life services are a booming business — not everybody says that's a good thing. businessinsider.com
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What you need to know about egg-freezing, the hot new perk at Google, Apple, and Facebook businessinsider.com
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Pharrell- and Grimes-backed music startup Roli files for administration and reboots as Luminary to refocus on beginner musicians businessinsider.com
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Bloomberg canceled Prof Scott Galloway's TV show after he joked about his sex life in a video, topless, in a hard hat businessinsider.com
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Spotify spent $230 million on Gimlet, but leaked data shows the podcast studio has lagged behind others at the audio giant. Insiders cite unclear strategy and internal tensions. businessinsider.com
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Elon Musk unveils 'Tesla bot,' a humanoid robot that would be made from Tesla's self-driving AI businessinsider.com
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Chinese TikTok star Xiao Qiumei dies after falling 160 feet from a crane while recording a livestream video businessinsider.com
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YouTube star Albert Dyrlund dies after falling 656 feet from a mountain while recording a video businessinsider.com
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Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted to transform Facebook from a social-media company into 'a metaverse company' businessinsider.com
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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both want to colonize space. Here are the 6 biggest problems with their plans, from thinning bones to toxic plants on Mars. businessinsider.com
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Uber negotiated a huge cut to a $59 million fine it received for refusing to share data about sexual assaults on its service businessinsider.com
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A judge dismissed the United States’ antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, saying the FTC failed to show that the company was a monopoly businessinsider.com
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Amazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they’ll run out of people to employ, according to a new report businessinsider.com
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One Amazon warehouse destroys 130,000 items per week, including MacBooks, COVID-19 masks, and TVs, some of them new and unused, a report says businessinsider.com
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Amazon is reportedly buying 1,000 autonomous truck-driving systems, which could pave the way for one day ditching drivers businessinsider.com
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OnlyFans is reportedly in talks to raise new funding at a valuation above $1 billion, as it plots a move away from adult content to become more mainstream businessinsider.com
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Clubhouse downloads are falling off a cliff: The app was downloaded only about 900,000 times in April, down from February’s peak of 9.6 million businessinsider.com
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A SpaceX fanatic created a website to find out when Starlink satellites were visible in his location. businessinsider.com
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Watch Elon Musk’s Boring Company test its Tesla tunnel system in Las Vegas with members of the public businessinsider.com
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Autopilot couldn’t have been engaged during fatal Tesla crash, NTSB says businessinsider.com
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40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg urging Facebook to abandon plans to build an Instagram app for kids under 13 businessinsider.com
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are at odds again over a $2.9 billion NASA contract. It’s the latest development in a 15-year feud between 2 of the world’s most powerful CEOs. businessinsider.com
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Inside $59 billion Atlassian’s sweeping new remote work policy, which lets employees work from almost anywhere without needing managerial approval businessinsider.com
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Travis Kalanick’s stealth $5 billion startup, CloudKitchens, is Uber all over again, ruled by a ‘temple of bros,’ insiders say businessinsider.com
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Uber and Lyft asked Congress to bail out their drivers. Now they can’t get enough drivers to come back to work. businessinsider.com
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The 2nd victim in the Tesla crash in Texas has been named. Elon Musk and police still don’t agree if the car was driving itself. businessinsider.com
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Consumer Reports proved that a Tesla will drive with nobody behind the wheel following fatal crash businessinsider.com
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Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users — about two-thirds of the platform’s userbase — and have posted it for sale online businessinsider.com
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Scraped personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has reportedly leaked online businessinsider.com
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Crypto-art investors could face a surprise on tax day since NFTs can lead to a hefty tax bill businessinsider.com
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Frustrated Amazon employees rip on the company for encouraging them to come back to the office businessinsider.com
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We read all 323 pages of 23andMe’s SPAC filing. Here are the 5 biggest obstacles it faces ahead of its public debut. businessinsider.com
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