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Alphabet makes cuts, Twitter bans third-party clients, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings steps down

Howdy, folks! Happy Friday. While our fearless Week in Review leader Greg enjoys parental leave, I’m filling in, curating the latest on the tech news front. It was a roller coaster of a week onc

Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile

Just a few days after announcing a significant round of layoffs that will impact 18,000 employees, Amazon is trying to find money wherever it can as the company announced that it would end AmazonSmile

Amazon Wants To Do Good With Its Goods, Launches ‘AmazonSmile’ Charity Donation Program

At the beginning of the year, just after Amazon reported a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/29/amazon-misses-q4-sales-up-22-percent-to-21-3b-net-income-down-45-percent-to-97m/">big profit dip</