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Kroger Begins Accepting Apple Pay After Years of Holding Out
Kroger this week began accepting Apple Pay and other contactless payment methods at select locations in Kentucky and Ohio, allowing customers to tap to pay with an iPhone or Apple Watch at checkout, according to customers on Reddit and Twitter.
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iPhone maker Wistron calls it quits, saying Apple didn't allow it to make a profit
iPhone maker Wistron – which was the first company to produce iPhones in India – has exited the business, saying that Apple’s tough negotiations on price meant the company was unable to make a profit. The news comes at a time when the Cupertino company is moving more and more of its iPhone production from China to India …
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Is Dr. Bronner’s the Last Corporation With a Soul?
The kooky soap company is rewriting the playbook for corporate success by doubling down on its vibey values.
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Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass”
In an internal memo sent Monday afternoon to Reddit staff, CEO Steve Huffman addressed the recent blowback directed at the company, telling employees to block out the “noise” and that the ongoing blackout of thousands of subreddits will eventually pass.
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Apple Announces Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom to Make Components in the USA
Apple today announced a multibillion-dollar deal with American technology company Broadcom to make several key components for its devices in the United States.
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Vice and BuzzFeed were meant to be the future of news. What happened?
After Rupert Murdoch invested tens of millions of pounds in his digital publishing company in 2013, Shane Smith, boss of Vice Media, laughed at how much old media companies wanted his sexy young business. Acknowledging that they were being left behind, they would offer billions: “And we keep saying ‘no, no, no’”.
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FTC sues Amazon over 'deceptive' Prime sign-up and cancellation process
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the nation’s dominant online retailer intentionally duped millions of consumers into signing up for its mainstay Prime program and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel. The agency claims Amazon violated the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act by using so-called dark patterns, or deceptive design tactics meant to steer users toward a specific choice, to push consumers to enroll in Prime without their consent.
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Avoid These 10 Common Writing Mistakes To Build Your Twitter Audience
Transform into a powerful communicator for an impressive personal brand and a profitable business. Here's how to build an engaged Twitter following, starting today.
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The SCO vs. Linux Saga: 20 Years of Open-Source Turmoil
This lawsuit was once seen as a huge threat to Linux. It's mostly over now--seriously, there's still one lawsuit to go--but here's my take on the case's long history.
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‘We are losing money’: companies in Apple’s repair program say they can’t compete with tech giant
Companies in Apple’s third-party repair program say delays in the process and high pricing for parts make it almost impossible to compete with the juggernaut. In 2021 Apple, under pressure from a Productivity Commission review on the “right to repair”, launched its independent repair provider program in Australia. It was trumpeted as a way for small companies to compete with Apple to repair their products – such as the iPhone – using Apple tools and spare parts.
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Apple still in need of Korea-made displays despite production push
US tech giant Apple will likely continue its reliance on Korean-made displays, although it has been making a “sweeping effort” to develop its own components for more direct control over its designs, a report showed Tuesday. According to a report released by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion, Apple is expanding its use of in-house components such as chips and displays in its flagship iPhones as part of a strategy to maintain its dominance in the market.
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Gambling ads should be banned within three years to tackle addiction crisis, parliamentary committee says
Committee chair Peta Murphy says Australians are among the biggest gambling losers anywhere in the world, and previous attempts to regulate gambling advertising have failed to address the problem.
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Cleopatra: Egypt jurists seek $2bn from Netflix
Netflix's docudrama Queen Cleopatra depicted the Ptolemaic queen as a black African woman, causing much controversy in Egypt. Now a team of jurists want to sue Netflix for $2 billion in compensation.
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Vietnam is going all-in on a climate-change resistant coffee bean
As climate change imperils the much-loved but vulnerable arabica coffee plant, Vietnam is going all in on more robust robusta.
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Amazon may prioritize items in search results depending on how close it is to you and how quickly it can be delivered
Amazon doubled its warehouse footprint over the last several years, allowing the company to prioritize faster regional shipping across the US.
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Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay
A Masters of Beef Advocacy program teaches ‘scientific sounding’ arguments on cattle’s sustainability in an all-out public relations war
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The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images
The images in this comic book are “not of human authorship”
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CRTC launches review of wholesale network rates, reduces some to boost telecom competition
The regulator says “its current approach is not meeting its objective of encouraging more competition in the Internet services market”.
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Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing
is asking cloud employees and partners to share their desks and alternate days with their desk mates starting next quarter, citing “real estate efficiency,” CNBC has learned. The new desk-sharing model will apply to Google Cloud’s five largest U.S. locations — Kirkland, Washington; New York City; San Francisco; Seattle; and Sunnyvale, California — and is happening so the company “can continue to invest in Cloud’s growth,” according to an internal FAQ recently shared with cloud employees and viewed by CNBC. Some buildings will be vacated as a result, the document noted.
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These Billionaires Sold The Most Stock So Far In 2023
Twenty-one of the world’s richest people, including Larry Ellison and Rob Walton, have unloaded shares worth more than $9 billion combined in the first half of this year.