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Amazon makes bid to settle UK antitrust probe into seller data, Buy Box and Prime

July 26, 2023
In a move seeking to settle an open antitrust investigation in the UK, Amazon has offered to limit its use of data on marketplace sellers so its retail business cannot gain an unfair advantage over other sellers and provide a guarantee of equal treatment for all products displayed in the ‘Buy Box’ that appears on […]

Trustmi lands $17M to scale its payments fraud prevention tech

July 26, 2023
Shai Gabay and Eli Ben-Nun, two entrepreneurs based in Israel, met in 2018 while working at Cynet, a cybersecurity startup developing extended detection and response tools. While there, they came to realize that there was a growing need to secure payment transfers, which were becoming increasingly susceptible to fraud and cybercrime. According to one recent […]

How to Trade the 7/26 Fed Announcement?

July 26, 2023
Few events are a greater catalyst for stock price movement than Fed meetings. And the one coming up Wednesday 7/26 closely watched by investors to see if Fed officials are…

Meta firms fined in Australia over ‘Onavo Protect’ consumer protection breach

July 26, 2023
Remember Onavo? The Israeli mobile market intelligence company that Meta (aka Facebook) bought back in 2013 and used to power a free VPN/data management app which claimed to users it would help protect their privacy but did the opposite by sharing usage data with Facebook for the latter’s own business intelligence purposes? The wheeze helped […]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S9 arrives with new chip and water resistance

July 26, 2023
Samsung’s Unpacked hardware parade continues with the Galaxy Tab S9. The tablet was destined to be something of an also-ran during an event that features a pair of new foldables and smartwatches. Much like the company’s non-folding flagship smartphones, the Galaxy Tab line is mature now, and most upgrades are destined to be somewhat iterative. […]

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 finally fixes the foldable’s biggest problem

July 26, 2023
The Pixel Fold may be my personal favorite foldable of the moment, but the Galaxy Z Flip is the device that made me believe — and you can never take that away from it. The first Galaxy Fold was novel, of course, but the product has always been a bit unwieldy and prohibitively expensive. The […]

Samsung Galaxy Watch Classic: The bezel is back (again)

July 26, 2023
The spinning bezel is the best thing about Samsung Watches. And yet, every few generations, the company drops the hardware feature, customers push back and then it magically returns. If I was a more cynical person, I would suggest that this is all a bit to drive engagement, but the more likely answer is that […]