Fast shipping is — finally — no longer all about Amazon. On Monday, eBay announced it will offer a new guaranteed-delivery program in the US starting this summer, pledging deliveries in three or fewer days for more than 20 million products. For the first time, eBay’s shoppers will be able to filter searches to see …
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A front cover of the New York Post in December offered an unflattering view of Amazon Go, a test convenience store that does away with cashiers. The cover included Robby the Robot modified with Amazon branding and standing beside the giant headline: “THE END OF JOBS.” Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president of global innovation, sees things a little differently. “We’ve …
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Now playing: Watch this: CNET asks New Yorkers: How do you Venmo? 3:29 When Sarah Mellema wanted to shoot a quick, encouraging message to her friend Sam, she didn’t open Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat or WhatsApp. She didn’t email, text or call. She used Venmo. “Miss you boo. Here’s a kiss and some money,” the 26-year-old Chicagoan wrote, attaching a …
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Amazon’s hugely popular Prime membership service launched Tuesday in Mexico. Mexican Prime subscribers can now get unlimited shipping on over 20 million products, as well as Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service. The price of the service is 899 pesos (about $46) a year, but for the next six months Amazon will be offering a promotional rate of 449 pesos for …
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Amazon offered up more answers Thursday about what caused a bunch of websites to fail two days ago. According to a postmortem by the company’s cloud services business, around 9:37 a.m. PT Tuesday an Amazon worker incorrectly punched in a command while trying to debug an issue. That command shut down a large set of servers at Amazon Web Services’ …
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Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., has become the newest hot tech stock to hit the market. The company’s shares started trading publicly Thursday, marking the biggest and splashiest initial public offering for a US-listed tech stock since Alibaba in 2014. Also on today’s podcast, we hit on the power of 5G and some of the early demonstrations of the wireless …
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One of Amazon Web Services’ most popular features was on the fritz Tuesday. The cloud-computing business’ S3 service, which provides on-demand storage for companies large and small, began experiencing service disruptions at its northern Virginia site around 10 a.m. PT. The issue was resolved by 2:08 p.m. PT, with Amazon saying its S3 service was “operating normally.” Websites relying on …
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Many top smartphones get unveiled at each year’s Mobile World Congress. But, for 2017, perhaps the buzziest phone at the show is a retro “dumb” feature phone that offers a healthy dose of nostalgia. With LG, Sony and Lenovo’s Motorola showing off the latest in phone tech, Nokia decided to reintroduce its 3310 and offer only a few upgrades to …
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PayPal took the chance Monday to pat itself on the back. The king of digital payments said it reached a big milestone, hitting 200 million active customer accounts. Granted, that isn’t really a surprise, since it reported 197 million accounts a month ago. Perhaps more importantly, 50 million of those customers have now opted in to use PayPal’s One Touch, …
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Devin Wenig buys his garbage bags, shampoo and even toothpaste on eBay. That’s not typical for your regular eBay customer, who may visit for a car, cardigan or collectible coin. But as eBay’s CEO, the 50-year-old Wenig likes to buy as much as he can from the site, now the world’s third-largest e-retailer after Amazon and Alibaba. See also Looking …
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