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• Amazon Acquires Podcast Network Wondery In Reported $300 Million Deal
• Insights: After 2020’s Crucial Role In Our Lives, Social Media Will Face A Far More Critical 2021

  Social media were a critical lifeline in a brutal 2020. But a flurry of end-of-year lawsuits and other looming changes suggest 2021 will be much more difficult for the tech giants' usual operations.

  
• Amazon Kids+ Pacts With Ryan Kaji For Its First Original, With Toy Tie-In

  Everybody wants a piece of Ryan Kaji -- including, it turns out, Amazon Kids+, a child-focused subscription service comprising books, movies, TV shows, apps, and games for $3 per month.

  
• Amazon Sues Two TikTok, Instagram Influencers For Alleged Scheme To Sell Knockoff Designer Goods

  Amazon has filed suit against two influencers -- as well as roughly a dozen affiliated ecommerce sellers -- for promoting and facilitating the sale of counterfeit designer goods. CNBC reports that Amazon alleges the influencers worked with sellers to skirt its anti-counterfeit tools in order to to vend fake designers purses, belts, and wallets by promoting them on now-deleted Instagram and TikTok accounts.

  
• Amazon To Begin Hosting Podcasts, Sets Exclusive Series With DJ Khaled, Dan Patrick, More
• Amazon Rebrands Twitch Prime, No Longer Requires Twitch Account To Access Benefits
• Lizzo Signs First-Look TV Deal With Amazon Studios
• Insights: What Will It Take For Livestreamed Shopping To Take Off In U.S.?
• Amazon Will Now Let You Create Your Own Streaming Service, Using Twitch Technology
• Insights: HBO Max May Change A Lot, And Complicate A Lot More
• Amazon Makes Grab For Gaming With Development Of Stadia Competitor, PC Titles ‘Crucible’ And ‘New World’
• Former Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins Exits Sony To Drive Amazon’s Digital Video Development