Alexa Flash Briefings

Morning Alexa Flash Briefings of January 31st

This is your daily tech and business briefing from cheddar news joe Rogan speaking out over the Spotify vaccine misinformation saga, posting a nearly 10 minute long video to instagram Rogan defended his podcast and apologized to Spotify over the controversy as both continue to face backlash. Spotify also responding to the controversy by announcing over the weekend that it will now be adding a content advisory to any of its podcast that discussed. COVID-19. The FTC says about 95,000 people reported being victims of social media schemes last year alone. About $770 million $258 million 2020 and this might not even be the full amount lost as the data shows that people ages 18-39 were twice as likely to report being victims than older Americans. And some of the biggest companies reporting this week, including alphabet, meta amazon and snap. As for alphabet google's parent company, investors will be really keeping an eye on revenue from its cloud services, which has been a major area of development for it recently. Alphabet expected to report earnings on Tuesday after the bell. Yeah, and that's your cheddar news and tech update. I'm Ariel Hixson from Washington, D. C.