One of a handful of tweets about the Treasure Truck. Via Twitter A few folks in Seattle on Monday started tweeting sightings of something called the Treasure Truck, a large boxy Amazon truck driving around the streets of their city. One picture on Twitter shows a rolling digital sign on the truck, saying “What’s on …
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Amazon says its new tool learns which customer reviews have helped shoppers the most and gives those write-ups more visibility. Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images Amazon is rolling out a big change to its customer reviews system in the US, introducing a new machine-learning platform it developed in-house to surface newer and more helpful reviews. “The system will learn what reviews are …
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The Withings Activité Pop, coming to AT&T. Sarah Tew / CNET AT&T is diving deeper into wearable devices, adding six more wearables to its in-store and online selection, including three models that will be coming to the carrier first. The carrier said Wednesday it will start selling the Case-Mate Rebecca Minkoff Notification Bracelet, Healbe GoBe, Mio Fuse, Misfit Flash, Withings …
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The Recon Jet, now an Intel product. Sarah Tew / CNET Intel’s is keeping up its push to become a bigger name in wearables, announcing Wednesday it acquired private Canadian smart-eyewear maker Recon Instruments. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Recon makes glasses for sports and fitness with a lot of the same functions as Google’s troubled Glass eyewear, which …
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The robocalling spat comes at a sensitive time for PayPal, as it plans to split from eBay later this year. Getty Images PayPal has yet another critic of its new user agreement: the Federal Communications Commission. The US regulator sent a letter Thursday to the digital payments company, questioning an amendment in the paperwork requiring users to consent to automated …
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Apple’s newest Manhattan store, which first opened in 1922 as a bank. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET Apple wants to offer a touch of luxury at its newest Manhattan location. The space at 940 Madison Ave., which will open to the public Saturday morning, was most recently a storefront for luxury handbag purveyor VBH and is still occupied by jewelry house David …
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Amazon disclosed Friday it received 813 subpoenas and 25 search warrants in the first half of the year. John Macdougall/Getty Images Amazon for the first time has released a report on the number of government data requests it receives, offering the public more information on how often it hands over its customers’ data to judges and law enforcement agencies. The …
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Amazon’s cloud-computing business has been clouded in criticism. John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images Amazon Web Services, the e-commerce giant’s cloud-computing business, will support the building and operation of a roughly $150 million solar farm planned in Virginia, with the project being named Amazon Solar Farm US East. An Amazon representative declined to specify Amazon’s financial commitment to the project, saying the company …
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eBay joins other retailers, including Target and Amazon, with its new Apple Watch app. eBay eBay is continuing its focus on mobile, unveiling Tuesday a new Apple Watch app and tweaks to its smartphone apps. With the e-commerce company’s Apple Watch app, people will be able to to see an overview of their notifications, as well as the items they …
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Jack Ma, at the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday, seeks to partner with US businesses. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET NEW YORK — Ever since Wall Street’s interest in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba reached a fever pitch last year, investors and analysts have focused on one major question: When will the company expand into the US and take on Amazon …
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