Amazon will stop forbidding third-party merchants who list on its e-commerce platform in the United States from selling the same products on other sites for lower prices, reports Axios. The company’s decision to end its price parity provision comes three months after Sen. Richard Blumenthal urged the Department of Justice to open an antitrust investigation […]
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This is where Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” will be set
Set thousands of years before the events of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. It has been revealed that the highly-anticipated series will take place in the “Second Age.” It was rumored the show would focus on a young Aragorn, Viggo Mortenson’s charact…
View More This is where Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” will be setBottomless has a solution for lazy coffee addicts
Bottomless, one of the 200-plus startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch, uses a smart scale to automatically restock your java supply.
View More Bottomless has a solution for lazy coffee addictsMeituan confirms Mobike’s retreat from most overseas markets
TechCrunch reported last Friday that Mobike has scrapped operations across the Asia Pacific region as a key step towards a long-term plan to scale back its international business. On Monday, its parent company Meituan confirmed that the pioneer in China’s bike rental sector will shut down most of its foreign markets. “Mobike international business is […]
View More Meituan confirms Mobike’s retreat from most overseas marketsAmazon will close all of its U.S. pop-up stores
Since 2015, Amazon has increased their physical presence by opening pop-up stores across the globe. Now, all 87 locations are set to close by April 2019. These pop-ups were located inside Whole Foods, Kohl’s and large malls. Read more…
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View More Amazon will close all of its U.S. pop-up storesAmazon expands program that pays developers for top voice apps to France, Italy & Spain
Amazon is expanding its program that directly pays Alexa developers in cash for building valuable, quality voice apps to new markets in Europe: France, Italy, and Spain. Originally launched in the U.S. in 2017 for those developers building game skills, the Alexa Developer Rewards program has since expanded to include a broader selection of Alexa […]
View More Amazon expands program that pays developers for top voice apps to France, Italy & SpainFunerals are tough. Ever Loved helps you pay for them
Alison Johnston didn’t plan to build a startup around death. An early employee at Q&A app Aardvark that was bought by Google, she’d founded tutoring app InstaEDU and sold it to Chegg. She made mass market consumer products. But then, “I had a family member who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I thought about […]
View More Funerals are tough. Ever Loved helps you pay for themVenture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech
Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical […]
View More Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big techElizabeth Warren is coming after AmazonBasics. Why Amazon shouldn’t fight it.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Amazon did the right thing?
On Friday, senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren unveiled her plans to break up Big Tech, including Amazon. Much of her to-do list includes disallowing tech giants that own a marketplace …
Kindle Paperwhite on sale: Save $30 on this top-notch Amazon e-reader
Are you still carrying around heavy books? We applaud you for being an avid reader, but it’s 2019 and it’s probably time to upgrade to an e-reader like the Kindle Paperwhite. An e-reader will allow you to read more books without getting back strain f…
View More Kindle Paperwhite on sale: Save $30 on this top-notch Amazon e-readerOver a quarter of U.S. adults now own a smart speaker, typically an Amazon Echo
U.S. smart speaker owners grew 40 percent over 2018 to now reach 66.4 million – or 26.2 percent of the U.S. adult population – according to a new report from Voicebot.ai and Voicify released this week, which detailed adoption patterns and device market share. The report also reconfirmed Amazon Echo’s lead, noting the Alexa-powered smart […]
View More Over a quarter of U.S. adults now own a smart speaker, typically an Amazon EchoElizabeth Warren wants to break up Google, Amazon and Facebook
The influential Massachusetts Senator and Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has been a longtime critic of the consolidation of economic power by Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Now she’s making their break-up a key component of her Presidential platform. Warren has just released her plan for breaking up big tech, in what seems like a watershed moment […]
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