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Amazon was marketing a collection of Chinese Communist Party President Xi Jinping’s speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict — no reviews less than the highest five stars allowed — Reuters reports, citing “two people familiar with the incident.” Steve Stecklow and Jeffrey Dastin for Reuters:…
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If you don’t have an Echo device or aren’t a current Amazon Music Unlimited subscriber, you can score an Echo Dot for only 99¢ when you sign up for 1 month of Amazon Music Unlimited. Estimated reading time: 3 minutes This is a great deal if you’ve ever been curious about trying out Amazon’s Alexa…
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AWS users can deploy new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M1 Mac Instances to build and test apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s M1 Mac mini packs a staggering amount of performance into its ultracompact design. Sébastien Stormacq for Amazon AWS: The introduction of EC2 Mac instances brought the…
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Black Friday is technically over, but the deals have continued rolling through the weekend. As we approach Cyber Monday, we’ve updated our massive list of Black Friday deals to get rid of the dead links and add new discounts that shouldn’t go unnoticed. While Black Friday deals can be easy to sniff out, these weekend…
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Amazon is a behemoth of a corporation, and it already has its tentacles in a wide variety of verticals in the consumer market. Now, the company is sinking its teeth into the pharmacy market with Amazon Pharmacy. It wasn’t that long ago that companies such as CVS, Walgreens, and Duane Reed put thousands of mom-and-pop…
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The Italian Competition Authority is the Italian government’s agency for regulating business competition and overseeing possible conflicts of interest. As the Italian competition regulator, the Authority enforces both Italian and European consumer protection laws. Think of them as the Federal Trade Commission but for Italian laws. Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The Italian Competition Authority…
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Italy’s antitrust authority has fined Apple and Amazon a total of more than 200 million euros ($225 million) for alleged anti-competitive cooperation in the sale of Apple and Beats products. Beats Fit Pro are available in four colors: Stone Purple, Sage Gray, White, and Black Reuters: Contractual provisions of a 2018 agreement between the companies…
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Online shopping is big business, and without a doubt, Amazon is the king of the hill. But there’s one place many people stop to research a potential purchase before heading to Amazon, and that is YouTube. YouTube is keenly aware that shoppers come to the platform to research items before purchase, and they want to…
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Earlier today, Amazon announced the Smart Air Quality Monitor. This new device monitors indoor air quality by measuring the presence of indoor particles and alerts owners via the Alexa app or Alexa-enabled device. Estimated reading time: 3 minutes With people spending most of their time indoors, most of the air we breath can be up…
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Amazon Flex is a program run by the company that pays people to use their vehicles to deliver packages to customers. The Amazon Flex website claims that most drivers earn US$18-25 an hour, depending on location, tips, and how long it takes you to deliver packages. Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Tips are a massive…
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