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Dial-Up Amazon Turns 25 This Month

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Just as Amazon opened its first online marketplace for sellers, the bursting dot-com bubble took the wind out of its sails and knocked back the stock price. Subscription service Amazon Prime launched in early 2005 with a $79 annual price tag. The service hit 150 million subscribers in early 2020, pushed along by the pandemic.

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Project September Aims To Drive Commerce With Instagram

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According to a recent article by Re/code , Project September is an app and website that will give users the ability to tag images from Instagram with product details that help to make products more discoverable and (as Maybank and her team hope) drive purchases from the platform.

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Could Google’s Wednesday Product Event Outshine Apple’s?

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This will enable the company to compete with Amazon’s more affordable Echo Dot. There’s no word yet on whether it will be targeted for developers (and with a price tag of more than $1,000), or be released to a more mainstream customer base, which means the company needs to drop the price to a more reasonable $300 range.

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Apple Says Demand For iPhone X Is High

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Prior to the launch, there were concerns about problems with the production of the new phone, specifically with the dot projectors in the TrueDepth camera system, which is part of Apple’s new facial recognition technology that enables users to unlock phones and pay digitally. While major promotions of the iPhone X from U.S.

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Google’s Pixel Event: The Good, The Bad And The Weird

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Nope, Google went big, rolling out its fancy new phone (with an accompanying fancy price-tag), its VR entry and its Echo competitor. To start, the device is priced at $129 — about $50 cheaper than the Amazon Echo (though more than the recently released Echo Dot). So what was seen — and what were the early reviews?

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The Amazon Effect Pushes Warehouses To The IoT Tipping Point

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The issue gets even more complex when it’s not just a handful of massive fulfillment centers dotted around the country that are looking at these tech innovations but rather an even larger number of small facilities strategically located to population centers likely to require their increasingly on-demand services.

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Revving The Engine For Digital Licenses

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It’s about fixing a broken system with technology,” he said, “and then working in concert with the DMV or DOT to that desired end.”. As we broaden out,” Boston said, “we start talking about being able to do bridge tolls,” enabled by RFID tags already in the plates, and being able to interface with parking meters.