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Why I started "This Week I Learned"
Chasing financial headlines left little to revisit. I started keeping weekly notes on the things I learned while traveling.
Facebook Q3 earnings: profit beats estimates
Facebook's Q3 2021 profit beat proved its ad business could absorb a shock for a quarter, not that Apple's privacy changes were harmless.
PayPal is exploring Pinterest acquisition
The reported PayPal–Pinterest talks in 2021 raised a product question: could payments improve shopping without spoiling discovery?
Facebook fined $69.6 million in the UK for Giphy takeover
The UK's £50.5 million Giphy fine targeted Facebook's conduct during merger review, which is more telling than the size of the penalty.