Using a specialized system, you too can earn $5,000 to $10,000 a month by selling products on Amazon, all while working less than an hour a day. Does that pitch sound too good to be true? Well, it did to Washington state’s attorney general. AG Bob Ferguson said Friday that his office filed a civil …

Now playing: Watch this: Google-Amazon spat means no more Youtube on Fire TV (The… 4:12 On today’s podcast, we talk about: Google cutting off Amazon’s access to YouTube amid a growing fight between the two tech giants. Qualcomm and Microsoft again trying to popularize phonelike PCs. CNET’s interview with US Sen. Maggie Hassan on better security for Internet of Things devices. …

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Net neutrality rules are expected to be repealed on Dec. 14. Ahead of that FCC vote, we discuss many of the thorny issues involved, including censorship, potentially higher costs to customers and the need for telecommunications infrastructure investment.  On the podcast, we talk about: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai making his case against existing net neutrality rules and claiming Twitter could be more …

Now playing: Watch this: Net neutrality rollback: is the open internet under siege?… 5:07 Here’s what we’re talking about in today’s podcast. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai makes his case against existing net neutrality rules and claims Twitter could be more harmful to an open internet than killing net neutrality. Comcast denies plans to offer internet “fast lanes.” The 3:59 gives you …

Amazon broke its single-day worldwide sales record this Cyber Monday, the company said Wednesday.  Granted, it would’ve been far more surprising if that hadn’t happened. The e-commerce giant has been growing fast and benefiting from consumers’ continued shift to online shopping. This means that, so far, every year brings new sales records for the company. You wouldn’t need to look …

A phone these days is a lot of things: a tiny TV, a game console, a home for your Animoji farm. Despite years of retailer effort, though, it hasn’t functioned all that well as a storefront to sell you actual goods. The big kickoff to the holiday shopping season shows that may finally be changing. US sales on phones this …

In early 2005, Charlie Tritschler, an Apple veteran, walked into an old law library in Palo Alto, California, where a small group of Amazon employees was working on a secret project and looking to bring him onboard. The space included floor-to-ceiling book stacks and the team worked at boxy carrel desks. But, incongruous to the setting, a table nearby held …

Neha Singh points her iPhone 8 Plus at an empty section of the dark-wood floor by the entrance to the Techstars startup accelerator in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The smartphone’s screen at first simply shows the space in front of us, but then a small digital 3D pop-up store appears. There are three golden mannequins dressed in tank tops and high-waisted …

Apple on Tuesday removed Skype and a few other apps from its app store in China, after the country’s government told Apple the apps violated local laws, Reuters reported Tuesday. “We have been notified by the Ministry of Public Security that a number of voice over internet protocol apps do not comply with local law, therefore these apps have been …