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There may be bad news if you purchased one of Amazon’s “Overall Picks” for video doorbells in recent months. New tests from Consumer Reports find that popular doorbell cameras sold under names including Eken and Tuck are rife with security flaws that make it dead simple for anyone to watch your camera footage.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoConsumer Reports looked at ten seemingly identical video doorbells sold under various names including Eken and Tuck that are widely available on websites including…

Published By: Samreen PallLast Updated: February 23, 2024, 11:19 ISTUber partners with India's ONDC for Bus and Metro Bookings.Uber partners with India's ONDC, exploring bus & metro bookings. A move to win users, compete locally & promote public transport. Sparse details revealed.Uber is exploring offerings such as intercity bus and metro rail ticket bookings in India as part of a partnership with a government backed e-commerce initiative, a source told Reuters on Thursday.CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was in India’s…

Photo: Rokas Tenys (Shutterstock)Amazon allegedly tricked users into buying more expensive products through the use of its “Buy Box,” according to a class action lawsuit filed last week. The Buy Box, which features a “Buy Now” and “Add to Cart” button next to eligible items, funnels users into terrible deals through the ease of one-click shopping according to the complaint, Ars Technica reports on Monday.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'“Amazon customers reasonably believe that the Buy Box—which presents the only way for a…

Domestic smart electronics companies like Lava and Qubo are getting high ratings and are competing neck and neck with their global peers in terms of brand acceptance, market analysis firm Techarc said on Sunday. The firm conducted a study based on ratings received by 25 brands across 35 different product categories on e-commerce platforms Amazon and Flipkart in December."In our analysis, we found that of the global counterparts of Lava including brands like Realme and Redmi, the average weighted rating of consumers on…

In the dynamic realm of cryptocurrencies, the current landscape is marked by the anticipation of Bitcoin (BTC) ETF news and the impressive momentum of Pushd (PUSHD) in its presale. Simultaneously, the spotlight is on Solana (SOL), navigating crucial resistance levels and adding excitement to the crypto scene. Solana (SOL): Striving for Breakthroughs Solana (SOL) stands at a crucial juncture, aiming to breach a vital resistance level in pursuing a bullish trajectory. Analyzing the SOL/USDT chart reveals…

Even the deepest pockets have their limits. Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet sit on a combined $184 billion in cash and short-term investments. Those two, along with big tech peers Microsoft, Apple and Facebook-parent Meta Platforms, hold the highest such balances among nonbanking companies on the S&P 500, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Amazon and Alphabet are also currently generating just under $95 billion combined in annual free cash flow. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc.…

After a year of right sizing, employers are looking in the mirror and concluding there is still fat to lose. Companies including Amazon, Xerox, Google and BlackRock this month have announced plans to trim their workforces. Some of the companies now cutting jobs conducted larger-scale layoffs over the past year or so. Since then, inflation has come down along with expectations for a recession, which most economists anticipated as recently as the middle of last year. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights…

EBay agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after employees engaged in a harassment campaign against two bloggers for their coverage of the company, including mailing them live cockroaches and a fetal pig. The e-commerce giant was charged with two counts of stalking through interstate travel, two counts of stalking through electronic communications services, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstruction of justice. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

When Walmart announced it would be holding a CES keynote for the first time, we were admittedly a little skeptical. Now it all makes sense, though: America’s largest retailer came to CES 2024 in Las Vegas to talk about AI. In a joint announcement on Tuesday, the company said that it’s teaming up with Microsoft to build what it bills as AI-powered shopping experiences. In his keynote, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon described how the integration of AI across its website and apps will be used to study shopper behavior and suggest…

Jan. 10, 2024 10:48 am ETAmazon is eliminating hundreds of jobs across its film and television studio and Twitch streaming platform. Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon’s Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, announced the studio and video-division layoffs in an email to staffers Wednesday. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Jan. 10, 2024 10:48 am ETAmazonis eliminating hundreds of jobs across its film and television studio and Twitch streaming…