Description

Apple heads to the Supreme Court over antitrust concerns about its App Store; Facebook’s internal documents are seized by the British Parliament; what’s behind the resurgence of Atari; the human story of Black Friday inside Amazon’s fulfillment centers; and Lenny—a chatbot designed to frustrate telemarketers.

Links:

• U.S. top court leans toward allowing Apple App Store antitrust suit (Reuters)
• My Amicus Brief (AVC/Fred Wilson)
• Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers (The Guardian)
• Internal documents Facebook has fought to keep private obtained by UK Parliament (CNN)
• Atari CEO interview — How Rollercoaster Tycoon revival saved the company (VentureBeat)
• The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager (Vox)
• The Story of Lenny, the Internet's Favorite Telemarketing Troll (Motherboard)