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It's episode 79 of the Future Tribe podcast and Germaine and Kelsey are discussing the introduction of Meta (formerly Facebook), Dollarmites from Commonwealth Bank is finished and how Australian authorities are cracking down on Google's default search monopoly.

This episode we discuss:

• Vistaprint rebrands to Vista and buys Crello (a Canva competitor) and DepositPhotos
  https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/vistaprint-acquires-crello-and-depositphotos-rebrands-as-vista-to-better-take-on-canva-and-others-in-online-creative-design-for-businesses/ 
• Facebook changes their name to Meta
  https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/28/facebook-changes-its-corporate-branding-to-meta/ 
  Watch the 11 minute video mentioned:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gElfIo6uw4g 
• Instagram is letting anyone share story links now
  https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/instagram-rolls-out-the-ability-for-all-users-to-share-links-in-stories-via-link-stickers/ 
• Dollarmites, the popular CommBank program, is finishing
  https://www.businessinsider.com.au/dollarmites-school-program-ends-commonwealth-bank 
• LinkedIn launches their freelance platform to compete with Fiverr and Upwork
  https://www.businessinsider.com.au/dollarmites-school-program-ends-commonwealth-bank 
• Google might not be the default Android search for much longer
  https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/28/android-search-choice-screen-is-needed-to-tackle-googles-market-power-says-australias-accc/ 
• AMP was brining less revenue to publishers
  https://wptavern.com/unredacted-antitrust-complaint-unsealed-google-internal-documents-show-amp-pages-brought-40-less-revenue-to-publishers 
• TikTok is testing a tipping function (try saying that 5 times fast!)
  https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22751715/tiktok-new-tips-feature-creators 
• Apple forgot they added a notch
  https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/27/22748371/apple-macbook-pro-notch-issues-inconsistencies-apps
  https://thenextweb.com/news/macbook-pro-notch-design-fail 
• Direct integration of Mailchimp and Shopify
  https://www.techradar.com/news/mailchimp-and-shopify-team-up-in-ecommerce-boost 

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