June 8, 2020
Mon. 06/08 – Airbnb Is Suddenly Seeing More Travel Bookings Than It Did This Time Last Year
Might we see a V-shaped recovery after all? Airbnb says there IS a lot of pent-up demand out there. Brave got caught doing basically the shadiest thing a web browser can do. Proof that YouTube owns the kids. And soon you might be able to buy anything you want from Apple, interest-free, on the Apple Card.
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Links:
- Airbnb Joins Vacation-Rental Sites Seeing Surge in Demand (Bloomberg)
- Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users’ trust (Decrypt)
- Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in US, UK and Spain (TechCrunch)
- Apple Preparing Monthly iPad, Mac Payment Plans for Apple Card (Bloomberg)
- Scientists funded by Zuckerberg sent him a letter calling Facebook’s practices ‘antithetical’ to his philanthropic mission (Washington Post)
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