Introducing Facebook News. Did the major US Carriers do an end-run around Google out of spite? Amazon is back to making as little profit as it possibly can, HBO Max makes its aggressive pricing move, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Links:

• Rupert Murdoch wanted Mark Zuckerberg to pay him for news stories — and now Facebook is going to do just that (Recode)
• [Update: Google responds] Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile join forces to bring RCS to Android in 2020 (9to5Google)
• AMAZON.COM ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER SALES UP 24% TO $70.0 BILLION (Amazon)
• Behind AT&T's plan to take on Netflix, Apple and Disney with HBO Max (Reuters)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time (Buzzfeed)
• Inside R/Relationships, the Unbearably Human Corner of Reddit (The Atlantic)
• He revolutionized how millions of people spend money in India. His next target: America (CNN Business)
• Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell (Wired)
• Pentagon, With an Eye on China, Pushes for Help From American Tech (NYTimes)
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy (MIT Technology Review)
• How Do You Like We Now (Bloomberg Opinion)

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