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This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Amazon's spokesperson told Insider that its decision to ban Parler was not a result of employee activism. An Amazon employee group that called for the ban had claimed victory when it was announced. Amazon reiterated that the Parler ban was due to the social media app's lax content moderation policy. Amazon's decision to drop far-right social media app Parler from its Amazon Web Services cloud-hosting business last week in the wake of the Capitol Hill riots w...

Amazon says it will open five facilities in Quebec that will create more than 1,000 jobs and speed up customer deliveries.

How Silicon Valley banished Donald Trump in 48 hours This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. After years of resisting calls to take action against Donald Trump, the top internet platforms — including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube — moved swiftly this month to lock the US President out. The effort to de-platform Trump began as the outgoing president's supporters ransacked the US Capitol; Within a few days the internet companies' efforts mushroomed into a broader purge of extremist content and s...

  Today, Karen Jonas released a stunning rendition of “A Long December” (Counting Crows) with an accompanying music video.  The song and video premiered via American Songwriter, who writes: “reflecting on the past year of canceled tour dates and other plans coming to an end, Karen Jonas was stuck in a strange limbo of hope for a new beginning and what-ifs.” A note from Karen Jonas:  Like the last chapter of a too-long book, arduous and wordy, December 2020 rolls around. The calendar is finished but with so many canceled plans, I can’t quite call it complete. So I sit, caught bet...

One silver lining in the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year of 2020 was the wealth of excellent albums that helped sustain music lovers. Choosing 10 was a tough