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Reddit announces real-time features, including live upvote, downvote, comment, and viewer counts, a typing indicator, and notifications for top-level comments (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit announces real-time features, including live upvote, downvote, comment, and viewer counts, a typing indicator, and notifications for top-level comments — You'll see typing indicators, too — Reddit is introducing some big changes on Wednesday by adding new real-time features. https://bit.ly/3lqXlQi

Crypto trading volume in Indonesia this year reached ~$50B by October, up over 10x YoY, despite the government and the Ulema Council forbidding crypto payments (Rest of World)

Rest of World: Crypto trading volume in Indonesia this year reached ~$50B by October, up over 10x YoY, despite the government and the Ulema Council forbidding crypto payments — Crypto is booming on the archipelago. Its proponents aren't who you'd think — Ananda Badudu is 32 years old … https://bit.ly/3lqmbQw

Research: Amazon revenue from third-party sellers will reach $121B in 2021, up from $60B in 2019, as seller fees reach 34%, up from 30% in 2018 and 19% in 2014 (Stacy Mitchell/Institute for Local ...)

Stacy Mitchell / Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Research: Amazon revenue from third-party sellers will reach $121B in 2021, up from $60B in 2019, as seller fees reach 34%, up from 30% in 2018 and 19% in 2014 — Amazon's dominance of online retail means that small businesses have little choice but to rely on its site to reach consumers. https://bit.ly/3G8lp2G

Match Group will pay $441M to settle claims by Tinder founders and executives that Match avoided paying them up to $2B by undervaluing the app in mid-2017 (Matt Grossman/Wall Street Journal)

Matt Grossman / Wall Street Journal: Match Group will pay $441M to settle claims by Tinder founders and executives that Match avoided paying them up to $2B by undervaluing the app in mid-2017 — Company says it would pay $441 million to plaintiffs, including dating app's co-founders — Match Group Inc. has settled a lawsuit filed … https://bit.ly/3lpGZHM

Tel Aviv-based Frontegg, which helps SaaS companies track user data, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Frontegg, which helps SaaS companies track user data, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — Frontegg, a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides SaaS companies with the core user management tools they need to build their own services, today announced that it has raised … https://bit.ly/3pgRy0Y

David Marcus, the co-creator of Diem who spent the last few years building the Novi wallet, is leaving Meta at the end of 2021 to pursue other projects (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: David Marcus, the co-creator of Diem who spent the last few years building the Novi wallet, is leaving Meta at the end of 2021 to pursue other projects — Marcus, who joined the tech giant in 2014, has struggled to get the Diem currency off the ground — David Marcus, one of the top executives … https://bit.ly/31jhh0g

Amazon unveils AWS Private 5G, a service providing hardware, software, and SIMs to help deploy private mobile networks quickly without per-device charges (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Amazon unveils AWS Private 5G, a service providing hardware, software, and SIMs to help deploy private mobile networks quickly without per-device charges — At Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced the preview of “AWS Private 5G,” which is a new service … https://bit.ly/3EbXiiL