Book Review: ‘The Rivals’ is Jane Pek’s fine new mystery novel of online dating, love and death
Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a…
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Amazon launches an online discount storefront to better compete with Shein and Temu
Amazon has launched a low-cost online storefront featuring electronics, apparel and other products priced at under $20, an effort to compete with discount retailers that have increasingly encroached on the…
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Many retailers offer ‘returnless refunds.’ Just don’t expect them to talk much about it
It’s one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too. Returnless refunds are…
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A TV as big as a bed? With the holidays approaching, stores stock more supersize sets
NEW YORK — For some television viewers, size apparently does matter. Forget the 65-inch TVs that were considered bigger than average a decade ago. In time for the holidays, manufacturers…
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Chinese online retailer Temu faces European Union investigation into rogue traders and illegal goods
LONDON — Chinese online retailer Temu is facing a European Union investigation over suspicions it’s failing to prevent the sale of illegal products, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm said on…
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Google expert at antitrust trial says government underestimates competition for online ad dollars
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Federal regulators who say Google holds an illegal monopoly over the technology that matches online advertisers to publishers are vastly underestimating the competition the tech giant faces,…
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