Tuesday’s Interests: It’s Tax Day

Tuesday’s interests are all about Business & Technology.  Now that our taxes are done, we’re reading about fake videos, voided warranties, amazon annihilation, sidelined legends betting on bitcoin, and Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year.

QUOTE

• And while online distribution and automation may present certain challenges to traditional retailers, they also create significant opportunities. In fact,almost half of retail sales on Amazon’s platform are from third-party merchants who have chosen to sell their wares online instead of (or often, in addition to) through brick-and-mortar stores. (Eoffrey A. Manne and Jennifer Maclean, Wired)

READ

• The Era Of Fake Video Begins: The Digital Manipulation Of Video May Make The Current Era Of “Fake News” Seem Quaint (Franklin Foer, The Atlantic)
• ‘Warranty Void If Removed’? As It Turns Out, Feds Say Those Warnings Are Illegal (Colin Dwyer, NPR)
• Research: Learning a Little About Something Makes Us Overconfident (Carmen Sanchez and David Dunning, Harvard Business Review)
• Sorry, But Amazon Isn’t Actually Annihilating Retail Jobs (Eoffrey A. Manne and Jennifer Maclean, Wired)
• A Sidelined Wall Street Legend Bets On Bitcoin: Michael Novogratz Is Searching For Redemption In Cryptocurrencies (Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker)
• How Volkswagen Walked Away From a Near-Fatal Crash: The diesel cheating scandal nearly ended the company. Now it’s the No. 1 car seller on the planet, with staggering electric goals (Matthew Campbell, Christoph Rauwald and Chris Reiter, Bloomberg)
• Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next: “We will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years (Ezra Klein, Vox)

LISTEN

• Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next: “We will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years (Ezra Klein, Vox)

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