Fri. 10/08 – Tesla Goes Texas; Apple Goes Hollywood

Tech real estate report. Tesla leaves for Texas, while Apple rocks up in Hollywood. YouTube is gonna stop doing those year-end Rewind videos. A developer says Facebook banned him for life cause they didn’t like his app. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions where we ask the question: is Google’s famous hiring gauntlet broken?

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Links:

• Tesla to Move Headquarters From California to Texas, Elon Musk Says (WSJ)
• Apple Is Building a Massive New Campus Straddling L.A. and Culver City (Variety)
• YouTube To Stop Making Year-End ‘Rewind’ Videos (Exclusive) (TubeFilter)
• Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• How WhatsApp Swallowed Half The World (Gizmodo)
• Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• WeBack (Ramp Recap)
• Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s also failing. (Protocol)
• HEY SIRI, WHAT HAPPENED? (The Verge)
• Planet Squid Game (Vulture)