Google Home owners can now use the smart speakers to shop for more than 2 million Walmart items. “As an added incentive to test out voice shopping, Walmart said it will give customers a $25 coupon off a future Walmart order if they buy a Google Home or new Google Home Mini from Walmart when they link their accounts to Google Express,” CNet notes.

With its new “Street View-ready” program, Google is inviting just about anyone to contribute to its Street View imaging database. If individuals or entities are interested, “The first camera officially designated ‘Street View auto ready’ is Insta360’s Pro camera,” TechCrunch reports. “Google will make it possible to control the Insta360 Pro from directly within the Street View app.”

Slack Technologies is teaming up with Oracle to share services, Reuters reports. “The partnership is a victory for Slack as the young startup ramps up its efforts to win the business of large enterprises,” it writes. “The partnership will allow workers to use Slack as the interface for Oracle’s sales, human resources and business software.”

The European Commission is hitting Amazon with a multimillion-dollar fine related to unpaid back taxes, The Financial Times reports. “Launched almost three years ago, the commission’s investigation alleged that the US online retailer benefited from a sweetheart tax deal that granted it almost a decade of illegal state support from Luxembourg, the hub for its European operations,” FT reports.

Recode takes a closer look at Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, and the executive cited as most responsible for curing the network’s Russian problem. “The 38-year-old security expert and his team are leading the company’s internal investigation into Russian meddling,” Recode writes. “Despite Facebook’s disclosures thus far, that investigation is still ongoing, which puts Stamos in charge of one of the most important jobs inside Facebook.”

Wired considers the rise of “made-for-Instagram” art exhibits in what it calls “our selfie-dominated culture.” According to Jia Jia Fei, director of Digital at the Jewish Museum of New York: “The world has seen an increase in these spectacle exhibitions that have really taken on a new dimension online.” Yet, “Where … do we draw the line between art and Instagram filler?” Wired asks.

Facebook plans to give Congress copies of thousands of Russian-bought political ads, CNN reports. Yet the social giant apparently does not plan to share the contents of the ads with the public. “The move comes nearly one month after Facebook representatives informed lawmakers about the ads, and a week-and-a-half after CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to hand over them over amid mounting pressure from Democratic senators,” CNN notes.

Not everyone is buying Mark Zuckerberg’s argument that Facebook can’t be politically biased because conservatives and liberals seem equally unhappy with the network. “This doesn’t hold water at all,” Zeynep Tufekei, associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, writes in The New York Times. “People across the political spectrum should be able to agree that not making it so easy, and so lucrative, for fake news to spread widely is better for all of us.”

Google is doing away with its “first click free” program, which listed articles higher in search results if publishers agreed to offer some stories for free. “It’s Google’s most significant step yet to curry favor with news organizations that provide information for its search engine but have lost ad revenue from the rise of the internet,” Bloomberg reports. “Facebook Inc., the primary driver of online news traffic, is taking similar steps."