Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Added by PressForward
As Amazon steps up its effort to show Wall Street it can generate profits, the e-commerce giant is aggressively blocking money-losing products from advertising on its site. In recent months, Amazon has been telling more vendors, or brand owners who sell their goods wholesale, that if Amazon can’t sell those products to consumers at a…
There was a time when eBay was practically synonymous with buying and selling things online. Now it’s surprisingly easy to forget that it exists, until you need to buy something you can’t find anywhere else or clear some space in the attic. Or until someone like Elon Musk, made fabulously wealthy when PayPal was acquired…
Then I gave up and wrote it my damn self. Illustration: Jeremy Sorese for Bloomberg Businessweek ByMay 17, 2018, 4:00 AM EDT What a time for artificial intelligence! Google announced a new AI-powered set of products and services at its I/O conference for developers, including one called Duplex that makes phone calls for you…
close dealbook-branding close story-meta Photo Customers at the Whole Foods Market in Manhattan. Credit John Taggart for The New York Times said on Friday that it had agreed to buy the upscale supermarket chain Whole Foods for $13.4 billion, in the online retailer’s latest push into the grocery business. The deal comes as the high-end…