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Amazon wants all Prime deliveries to be one-day shipping, Slack files for its IPO and Uber sets its price range, someone with a personal vendetta to fix Gmail and of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Links:

• Amazon smashes earnings expectations (CNBC)
• Slack files to go public, revealing $400 million in revenue and $139 million in losses (CNBC)
• Uber sets IPO terms, could be valued at $84 billion (Axios)
• Regulators Around the World Are Circling Facebook (NYTimes)
• The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own (Fast Company)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• How Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games (Polygon)
• Red Dead Redemption 2: six months later (Polygon)
• WE’VE BEEN WARNED ABOUT AI AND MUSIC FOR OVER 50 YEARS, BUT NO ONE’S PREPARED (TheVerge)
• How the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell (Fortune)
• These home security startups aren’t afraid of Amazon and Google (Fast Company)
• Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers (OneZero)
• I Sell Onions on the Internet (Deep South Ventures)

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