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Josh Dzieza
Amazon sellers often buy goods from Walmart and Target to resell on the platform, but the products need to be repackaged before being sent in. This has given rise to an industry of Amazon “preppers,” often located in no-sales-tax states.
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Sean Hollister
Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service will launch for Founder’s Edition buyers on November 19th, but without a whole bunch of promised features, which may leave early adopters less impressed. The odds seem to be against Google, even though Google would seem to have the best chance of making cloud gaming work of any company yet.
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James Vincent
As smartphone sales plateau, Apple is increasingly looking to subscription services like Apple News+ and Apple TV+ for growth. It’s long been rumored that the company might bundle its various paid services together to boost subscriber figures, and a new report from Bloomberg now says this could happen as early as next year.
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Jon Porter
Nike is bringing an end to its Amazon deal, which saw it sell clothes and shoes directly to customers on the site. Amazon will no longer act as a wholesaler for the brand, leaving only third-party sellers on the platform.
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Dieter Bohn
The $1499 Motorola Razr brings back the folding phone for a new age. The Android device avoids many of the problems Samsung faced with the Galaxy Fold. There doesn’t seem to be any visible crease on the screen, Motorola says it’s plenty durable, and the phone folds literally flat. It’s all the things the Samsung Galaxy Fold isn’t.
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Casey Newton
Information is good, but it’s not substitute for accountability. What Facebook really needs is to launch its oversight board
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Chaim Gartenberg
Motorola has resurrected its classic RAZR line in the form of the Razr, a modern-day foldable phone inspired by the design of the iconic original. It looks great, although the clever design comes at the expense of some weaker-than-expected specs for a $1,500 phone. It’ll ship in January 2020.
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Jay Peters
The Internet Society and Public Interest Registry (PIR), which maintain the .org top-level domain, announced that they will be acquired by Ethos Capital, a private equity firm. This move makes PIR now officially part of a for-profit company — which could be at odds with the ideals of what the .org domain might represent to some.
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Jay Peters, Adi Robertson
The chief technology officer of Oculus, Facebook’s VR subsidiary, is stepping down this week, he posted on Facebook today. John Carmack, who is responsible for helping make Doom and for putting the Oculus Rift on the map in 2012, says he plans to focus his time instead on artificial intelligence.
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Ron Miller
Moveworks, a startup using AI to help resolve Help Desk tickets in an automated fashion, announced a $75 million Series B investment today. The round was led by Iconiq Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Sapphire Ventures. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and Comerica…
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Leslie Hitchcock
Livin’ la vida loca pretty much sums up the early-stage startup life. We understand just how crazy-busy life gets, but we’re here to remind all the last-minute mavens that you have just 48 hours to take advantage of early-bird prices to Disrupt Berlin 2019. Depending on the type of pass you buy, yo…
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Ingrid Lunden
One of the bigger trends in enterprise software has been the emergence of startups building tools to make the benefits of artificial intelligence technology more accessible to non-tech companies. Today, one that has built a platform to apply power of machine learning and natural language processing…
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Steve O'Hear
Yodel.io, an Austria-founded startup that’s developed a “digital receptionist” to help SMBs and other small teams handle in and outbound phone-calls, has picked up $1 million in “pre-seed” funding. It brings total funding to just over $1.8 million. Backing this round i…
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Romain Dillet
Earlier this year, GetYourGuide raised a gigantic $484 million funding round with SoftBank’s Vision Fund leading the round. Now that the German startup has reached a valuation well over the $1 billion mark, it’s time to look back at the company’s impressive trajectory. That’s why I’m excited to ann…
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Manish Singh
Disney plans to bring its on-demand video streaming service to India and some Southeast Asian markets as soon as the second half of next year, two sources familiar with the company’s plans told TechCrunch. In India, the company plans to bring Disney+’s catalog to Hotstar, a popular video streaming …
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Brian Heater
The rebirth of the Razr has been rumored for several months now. And honestly, such a product is a bit of a no-brainer. The Lenovo-owned company is embracing the burgeoning (if sputtering) world of foldables with the return of one of its most iconic models. While it’s true that Motorola’s kept the …
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Sarah Perez
Peanut, an app that began its life as a match-maker for finding new mom friends but has since evolved into a social network of more than a million women, announced today it has closed on $5 million in new funding and is expanding its focus to reach women who are trying to conceive. The round [&hell…
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