Plex, the streaming media app, said Tuesday it has acquired streaming news service Watchup. The price of the deal wasn’t disclosed, but Plex said it hopes to use the new acquisition to amp up the number of news videos it offers. Watchup‘s free app includes more than 150 local, national and international publisher partners include …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft joins suit to stop immigration ban, other tech… 1:06 Bezos at a meeting of tech executives and then President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan last month. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO and founder, said his company is going into action to counter President Trump’s controversial immigration order, which temporarily blocked refugees …

Walmart waited a decade to introduce a membership shipping service to compete against Amazon’s hugely successful Prime program. Less than two years later, it’s killing off the new service and changing tactics. The big-box retailer said Tuesday it got rid of ShippingPass, which offered unlimited two-day shipments on Walmart.com for $49 annually. In its place, Walmart cut the minimum for …

This year’s Sundance Film Festival was awash in new movies, shorts and experiences made for augmented and virtual reality. For today’s podcast, digital media reporter Joan E. Solsman discusses her visit to the festival to see these new forms of storytelling take shape, such as a new 40-minute VR film called “Miyubi” about a toy robot living with a family …

With earnings season well underway, Samsung came out with a big bump in its operating profit. That’s despite problems with its Galaxy Note 7 phone, which was recalled twice after several units exploded. The earnings boost is a reminder of Samsung’s reach, with the company making money in TVs and chips. Verizon also posted its quarterly results, with the telecommunications …

Just when you thought Amazon couldn’t possibly add more buy buttons to its website… The online retailer on Thursday unveiled on its website and app new “virtual Dash buttons,” essentially one-click buy buttons that it’s placed on its home page and in a new “Your Dash Buttons” section on its site. The feature is only available for Amazon Prime members. …

Are US customers interested in watching a post-apocalyptic thriller in Portuguese? Apparently, yes. Netflix said its series “3%,” which was made for Brazil, unexpectedly had legs outside that market, with millions of US viewers tuning in to watch the show, subtitles (or dubbed) and all. The series offered an early example of how Netflix’s international expansion can sometimes pay dividends …

Some of the biggest names in e-commerce are grappling with fake goods problems. Amazon in November filed its first-ever lawsuits against alleged counterfeit sellers, and Alibaba’s Taobao a month later got placed on a US list of notorious markets for fakes. This month, Alibaba, too, filed its first-ever suits against alleged fake sellers. Looking to avoid similar woes, eBay on …

Amazon is getting in the mix of US companies promoting their efforts to create more US jobs. The e-commerce giant said Thursday it plans to create 100,000 new full-time, full-benefit jobs in the country over the next 18 months, expanding its US workforce to 280,000 — up 56 percent from 2016. While that’s a huge number, many of these new …

Verizon and AT&T are clamping down on their legacy unlimited-data customers. AT&T said its jacking up its unlimited plan by $5 a month, and Verizon is booting folks who use more than 200 gigabytes a month on a similar plan. We discuss why the two biggest US carriers would make these changes, even as competitors Sprint and T-Mobile keep pushing …