Summary: <p><em><strong>Amazon has a record-breaking holiday season, surprising absolutely no one, another Instagram crackdown, a look at Austin as a tech hub, and why mobile alerts are a Frankenstein monster increasingly out of control.</strong></em></p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://fortune.com/2018/12/26/amazon-alexa-2018-holiday-sales/">Amazon Says Alexa Voice Shopping Tripled During 2018 Holiday Season</a> (Fortune)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/instagrams-christmas-crackdown-meme-accounts/579055/">Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown</a> (The Atlantic)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/27/teslas-supercharger-europe-expansion/">Tesla's Supercharger network will cover all of Europe in 2019</a> (Engadget)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/us/austin-apple-hub-silicon-hills.html">With Tech Expansion, Austin Is Still Weird. It’s Just More Wired Now, Too.</a> (NYTimes)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/newsrooms-view-mobile-alerts-as-standalone-platform.php/">Pushed Even Further: US Newsrooms View Mobile Alerts as a Standalone Platform</a> (CJR)</li> <li> <a href="https://variety.com/2018/film/news/box-office-2018-review-theaters-bounce-back-1203095729/">Movie Theaters Bounce Back: What’s Behind the 2018 Rebound</a> (Variety)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/27/18157399/black-mirror-netflix-special-bandersnatch-trailer-release-date">Watch the trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, releasing Friday 28th on Netflix</a> (The Verge)</li> </ul> <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/34f8474/podcast/sponsor/acugia/url/https%3A%2F%2Fflipboard.com%2F">https://flipboard.com/</a>
