Amazon is investing $1.2 billion into free technical training that's available to over 750,000 associates across the country. A tenured professor at Columbia University basically outed his own university as being totally misleading and they have had to come out. The US News & World Report rankings are not only dumb, it's also a terrible way to market college education.
Kara and Scott discuss the impacts of a Texas social media law, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bill to protect children’s data. Also, Adobe acquired Figma. Plus, a mega stock crash at Meta, a bizarre harassment case for eBay, and Russian troll’s impact on the Women’s March. Friend of Pivot, Marta Tellado, stops by to talk about her new book, “Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair, and Transparent Marketplace.”
You can find Marta on Twitter at @MLTellado.
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