Google’s app store deal with Spotify won’t placate critics

Dell’s new dock wirelessly charges your phone while supporting two 4K monitors

Enlarge / Dell’s Dual Charge Dock. (credit: Dell) When it comes to the ultimate computer setup, we often want more features but less clutter. We need more pixels, more screens, more peripherals (looking at you, USB webcam that suddenly became imperative), and more ways to power all that tech. At the same time, we seek […]

Influencers beware: The U.K. is cracking down on undisclosed Instagram shilling

Facebook’s Instagram unit has bowed to the demands of British regulators and agreed to crack down on hidden advertising in influencers’ posts. It’s a longstanding issue—influencers are, well, influential, and that makes them useful for endorsing products and services, but it’s often far from clear when they’re being paid for these endorsements. In the U.S., […]

Amazon ends widely mocked scheme that turned workers into Twitter “ambassadors”

Enlarge / Amazon fulfillment center in Las Vegas, Nevada. (credit: Getty Images | 4kodiak) Amazon has killed a program under which it paid warehouse employees to say nice things about the company on social media. “Amazon quietly shut down and removed all traces of the influence campaign at the end of last year, people with […]