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Yes, Twelve Dollars Is a Good Price for Two Batteries–Under the…

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If I didn’t want the batteries at $12, I could have very easily ordered from Amazon and waited a few days or driven all the way to another store. And in any event, I’m an able-bodied man, hardly defenseless and hardly positioned to really suffer by going battteryless for a couple of days. He couldn’t force me to buy them, either.

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Uber Faces Lawsuit By British Drivers

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They are asking the court to order Uber to comply with the data protection law or be fined 10,000 euros ($11,443) for each day it continues to violate the law. . The lawsuit comes one day before ADCU faces Uber in the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court as Uber appeals the 2016 landmark worker rights ruling. A hearing is set for Aug.

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How Clarifai Envisions Commerce — Literally

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Matthew Zeiler, founder and CEO of Clarifai, told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in a recent interview that he wants Clarifai to remain an independent AI company. There has to be an independent company,” Zeiler said. Because now our competitors are Google, Microsoft, IBM — tech giants — but none of them are independent of their customers.

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When Homeshares Become Shoppable Experiences

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The house contains items that come with small wooden tags that printed with the hashtag #SHOPTOSTAY. If the traveler likes an item, they can scan a quick-response (QR) code on the tag and take the product when they leave. If it’s a larger item such as a sofa, Richardson will ship it out the next day.

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The Amazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Prime Day And Its Aftermath 

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But every once in a while, one side comes out notably ahead – and this week was one of those weeks, with Amazon’s Prime Day performance more or less blowing Walmart out of the water. Now, in fairness, if there was ever a day when Amazon would run the retail table, it would likely be on the shopping holiday they invented. billion.

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Why eBay’s Trials And Tribulations May Have Melted ICE’s Bid – For Now

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The initial focus on Wall Street and beyond may have been, and may still be, the price tag: At a reputed $30 billion, the bid price was roughly 10 percent over eBay’s closing price coming into The Wall Street Journal report that shed some light on the offer. Dueling Headlines. No, thanks.

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Meeting The New Challenge Of Rolling Out PSD2 And SCA

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Some of the methods will be different than what we are used to seeing, and we will not even know what those methods are until 60 to 90 days after they’ve started to appear.”. These are not independent parameters. It takes that long to get feedback from consumers on credit card fraud. They are all tied together.”.