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| | | | | Tuesday, December 17, 2019 ⢠By Anthony Ha |
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Happy Tuesday Amazon says FedEx Ground shipping isn’t good enough for Prime, Girlboss gets a new boss and Google fires another employee-activist. Here’s your Daily Crunch for December 17, 2019. |
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| Amazon recently told third-party vendors that they are barred from using FedExâs ground delivery services for Prime shipments. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon told merchants that the ban will last âuntil the delivery performance of these ship methods improves.â The e-commerce platform will still allow FedEx Ground for non-Prime shipments and FedEx Express, a faster but pricier option, for Prime. Read more |
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| Attention Capital is a new outfit that buys, builds and scales media brands. Girlboss, meanwhile, is the female-focused multi-media business founded by Nastygal’s Sophia Amoruso, who will join the firm as a founder partner. Read more |
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| Kathryn Spiers, who worked on the platform security team, was generally tasked with writing code for browser notifications to automatically notify employees about guidelines and company policies. According to Spiers, Google fired her because she created a browser notification to educate her colleagues about their labor rights. Read more |
| | Image Credits: Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images |
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| ProdPerfect automates end-to-end testing for web developers. According to CEO Dan Widing, the product âfollowed some of the lessons of the product analytics industry to build a tool that lets us quantitatively understand how our customerâs live users traverse the customerâs web application.â Read more |
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| Based in Israel, 6over6 Vision previously raised $15 million to commercialize its in-home eye exams based on a combination of machine learning and sensors. The basic eye exams can be performed with nothing more than a smartphone or computer and camera. Read more |
| | Image Credits: Science Photo Library / Getty Images |
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| Instagram is expanding its limited fact-checking test in the U.S. and will now work with 45 third-party organizations to assess the truthfulness of photo and video content on its app. One group thatâs exempt from the fact checking, though, is politicians. Read more |
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| Carbonite’s co-founder offers an insider look at how the PC backup company built its brand. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more |
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