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Fri. 10/19 - Google Wants China, But Will China Want Google?

Oct 19, 2018 · 18 min
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Facebook makes a hire that makes British Twitter laugh, here’s how much Google’s going to charge for Android, Google wants China but does China want Google and the Weekend Longreads suggestions.

Links:

Facebook Hires Nick Clegg, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, as Head of Global Affairs and Communications, to Succeed Elliot Schrage (Financial Times)
Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Gizmodo)
Twitter Pulls Down Bot Network That Pushed Pro-Saudi Talking Points about Disappeared Journalist (NBC News)
Powerful Executives Have Stepped Away From the Saudis. Not SoftBank's. (New York Times)
Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal (The Verge)
Google Wants China. Will Chinese Users Want Google? (Wired)

The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism (New York Times)
How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (Vulture/New York Magazine)
Drone Journalism's Battle for Airspace (Columbia Journalism Review)
Mother Earth Mother Board (Wired)
The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust (The New Yorker)