Chewy, the online pet supplies company that sold to PetSmart in 2017 for $3.35 billion, but then split off a few years later, is the latest company to undergo layoffs, TechCrunch has learned. According to multiple sources, the pet supplier has laid off over 200 employees — a figure Chewy confirmed — including those in […]
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Amazon’s Buy with Prime, a service that lets Prime members shop directly from third-party merchants and get Prime benefits like free shipping and returns, launched today new features, including the ability to track Buy with Prime orders through Amazon’s website and mobile app as well as access to 24/7 live chats with customer service. Amazon […]
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Amazon announced another cluster of layoffs this week along with plans to discontinue the Crown channel, a flashy Amazon-run Twitch channel that featured television-like programming. Amazon will also shutter its Game Growth group, which helped creators in the gaming world market themselves. In a letter to staff, Amazon Games VP Christoph Hartmann characterized the decision […]
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Airbnb has acquired a secretive new AI startup, Gameplanner.AI, the company announced this morning. CNBC reports that the purchase price was around $200 million, a figure which TechCrunch was unable to confirm at publication time. Gameplanner was co-founded by Adam Cheyer and Siamak Hodjat. Cheyer famously helped to co-launch the startup Siri, which Apple acquired […]
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Amazon has entered into a partnership with Snap to allow users to buy its products directly from ads on the social app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The news was first reported by The Information. The Amazon ads on Snapchat will display real-time pricing, delivery estimates, product details and Prime eligibility, the e-commerce giant told […]
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Welcome to the future, where your car is a computer and a “fat finger” can grind your tunes to a halt. On Monday, Rivian put out — then abruptly cancelled — an over-the-air software update that offered bugfixes and improvements to a feature called proximity locking. Instead, the update screwed up some Rivain R1T and […]
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