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Spectrum TV has made major streaming service additions to its digital cable service and live TV app with HBO Max and YouTube, parent Charter has announced. You’ll be able to access both apps on channels 2004 for HBO Max and 2003 for YouTube, or on the platform’s guide via the search or apps menu. You’ll need, of course, a subscription to access HBO Max at $10 per month with ads or $15 ad-free. 

Along with Netflix, HBO Max and YouTube are the first streaming channels available directly through the Spectrum Guide. “As the video landscape continues to change, we are evolving our products and making it easier for our customers to watch what they want by providing access to streaming apps from convenient launch points within the Spectrum TV experience,” said Spectrum VP Elena Ritchie.

As Spectrum notes, Warner’s HBO Max offers 13,000 hours of premium content from brands HBO, DC, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Studio Ghibli. It also includes all 2021 Warner Bros. films (Dune, Godzilla vs. Kong and more) available the same day the films debut in theaters. That’s a boon to movie fans not ready to go to theaters with the pandemic still raging, but a consternation to some of the filmmakers involved.

“This is about public health,” the city’s mayor said, pointing to surging rates of COVID-19 linked to the delta variant.

A group of current and former Apple workers recently banded together and called for colleagues to share stories of discrimination, harassment and retaliation they’d experienced within the company. As of August 27th, the group called #AppleToo said it has collected 500 such stories — now, it has started publishing them on its official Medium page. Cher Scarlett, an Apple security engineer and the face of the movement, wrote on Medium that she will share five stories at a time “as the emotional toll in reading these is heavy.”

Two of the first five are about sexual harassment, one of which involved a male boss using his position of power over a female employee. Later, that employee was kicked out of an interview after the hiring team realized who she was. Another story was from a Black retail worker in the UK who tried to get their bosses to do something about racism and micro aggressions in the workplace to no avail. A female employee talked about how she was targeted by a person in her team and how management didn’t do anything about it. And the last one is about an employee who was assaulted in her store by a customer and didn’t get support from management. 

If Scarlett publishes all the submissions she got, these are just five of the many we’ll get to read. The #AppleToo movement said on Twitter, however, that 75 percent share a common theme: They involve some form of discrimination. Nearly half of them involve sexism, retaliation and HR reports that were ultimately dismissed. A fourth of them involved racism and ableism, and most of the harassment and assault stories were sexual in nature. 

In an interview with Protocol, Scarlett said she feels “like the company needs to be held accountable because they’re not holding themselves accountable. People want to feel heard. And they don’t feel heard by Apple.” She added that some employees who’ve been with the tech giant for decades felt like leadership used to listened to them, but that’s no longer the case. 

When the news about the #AppleToo movement first broke, Apple said in a statement: “We take all concerns seriously and we thoroughly investigate whenever a concern is raised and, out of respect for the privacy of any individuals involved, we do not discuss specific employee matters.”

PayPal is probably best known by many as a platform people use to send money to each other and make purchases on the internet. However, it seems that the company could be looking to expand and could be considering getting into trading stocks next. This is according to a report from CNBC who cites sources familiar with the plan.

According to the report, PayPal has allegedly hired Rich Hagen to head up its “Invest at PayPal” program. Hagen was the co-founder of online brokerage TradeKing, which was later bought up by Ally Invest. Unless PayPal’s hire of Hagen was for something else, his experience in the trading game will no doubt come in handy if PayPal wishes to become a stock trading platform.

To be fair the company’s interest shouldn’t come as a surprise. There seems to be an uptick in an interest to invest, plus PayPal did launch support for cryptocurrency last year, which is a form of investment these days, so for them to move into stocks doesn’t come as a complete surprise.

However, the report does note that if PayPal were to move forward, it probably won’t be this year. The report claims that if PayPal wanted to become a trading platform, they would need to complete a membership process through FINRA, a process that could take more than eight months, which means that it would probably be 2022 at the earliest.

PayPal Could Be Thinking Of Getting Into Stocks

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