Amazon’s controversial 1-Click patent opens with a summary that’s decidedly dry. It reads: “A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet.” Despite its stiff language, that US patent, which was granted in 1999, helped open the internet to droves of shoppers by allowing customers on Amazon.com to buy …
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Just before Apple’s iPhone event, which kicks off Tuesday, a few more leaks came out about the new device. Those rumors include information that the names of the new iPhones will be iPhone 8, 8 Plus and the special iPhone X. The best guesses on these names previously were iPhone 7S, 7S Plus and 8. Also on today’s show, we …
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Two years ago, an undrafted free agent named Jarryd Hayne unexpectedly made the cut and joined the San Francisco 49ers’ lineup as a running back. Plenty of players barely survive preseason and then slide into irrelevance, but that’s not what happened with Hayne. The former rugby star for the Parramatta Eels in Australia quickly found a fan base in both …
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Amazon has been working for years to clean its sites of fake reviews and fake products. It’s still got work to do. The online retailer on Wednesday filed five separate legal actions through the American Arbitration Association to cut down on a variety of alleged scams used to make money on Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing service, according to documents obtained by …
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Ending months of rumors, Apple is expected to finally reveal its newest iPhone to the world on Tuesday. For today’s show, we discussed the biggest change rumored for the device — the loss of the home button — and whether that’s even such a big deal. Plus, we chat about Amazon’s continued push to rid its sites of fake reviews …
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Amazon is now so big it wants a second headquarters. The world’s largest online retailer said Thursday it plans to build a corporate base in a major North American city that will be an equal to its existing Seattle headquarters. It expects to spend over $5 billion on the project, called Amazon HQ2, and hire as many as 50,000 people …
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Pharma Bro is holding the world’s most expensive Wu-Tang Clan album for ransom. Martin Shkreli, an infamous pharmaceuticals entrepreneur and convicted criminal dubbed Pharma Bro, purportedly put the one and only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” for auction on eBay on Tuesday. He listed the rap album, which he purchased for $2 million in 2015, …
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It’s always worth remembering that when you’re online, someone could be watching. That’s the situation a Romanian man ended up in when he was fired from his job in 2007 for chatting online with his brother and fiancee while at work. His company used surveillance software to track the conversations and used the information as proof he violated a company …
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Lenovo reached a settlement Tuesday with the US Federal Trade Commission, ending two-and-a-half-year dispute over the Chinese company preinstalling problematic advertising software in hundreds of thousands of its laptops. Thirty-two state attorneys general joined the FTC settlement, with the states getting a $3.5 million settlement from Lenovo. The FTC accused Lenovo, one of the world’s largest PC makers, of preinstalling ad software …
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Facebook is finally making plans to start making real money from WhatsApp. The social networking giant snatched up WhatsApp in 2014 for a whopping $22 billion, but the popular messaging service still isn’t making Facebook much cash despite WhatsApp’s 1 billion daily users. Now, Facebook is planning to charge businesses for WhatsApp services to help them connect with customers, The …
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