- Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) flagged Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) for access to sexually graphic photographs by children on the popular Kindle app.
- Reuters’ questions to the companies about users’ ability via the Kindle app sparked the warnings.
- The companies said their concerns were around policy violations.
- Two families told Reuters their pre-teen sons downloaded the explicit material via Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited e-book subscription service and viewed the full-color photographs on the Kindle iPhone app. Pornography also is available through Amazon’s Kindle online store and viewable on versions of the Kindle app.
- The adult material is primarily self-published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing arm. Authors can self-publish their books instantly through Amazon and may designate the content as available for the Kindle Unlimited service.
- As of Monday, adult materials were still accessible on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited via the iOS and Android apps, Reuters writes.
- Kindle Unlimited, for $10 per month, gained traction due to demand for customers seeking to binge-read series like the “Hunger Games” trilogy and other prior bestsellers like “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Queen’s Gambit.”
- Price Action: AMZN shares traded higher by 0.26% at $103.02 on the last check Tuesday.
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Piper Sandler Maintains Overweight on Paycom Software, Raises Price Target to $417
Piper Sandler analyst Arvind Ramnani maintains Paycom Software (NYSE:PAYC) with a Overweight and raises the price target from $395 to $417.
