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Amazon must pay $2.25 million and permanently shut down a previously suspended sales program, following an investigation and lawsuit by the Attorney General of Washington alleging it was essentially price-fixing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jordan Gonen and Jacob Schein had both worked in the tech industry for a few years when they realized they lacked a clear understanding of their own finances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Small businesses might soon be able to accept payments using their iPhones without extra hardware. Apple could start rolling out the feature through a software update in the next few months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

By now, many of us are familiar with the warehouse robots which populate those vast spaces occupied by the likes of Amazon and others. In particular, Amazon was very much a pioneer of the technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We all know online reviews must be taken with a grain of salt, but generally you’d like to think that a product with a 4.5-star average is better than one with a 3.5-star average. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitter is still working on a feature that will give you a way to blast tweets that can only be seen by the friends you choose first revealed in July last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starship Technologies, one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots — those little caboose-like, boxy delivery vehicles that self-drive around cities — has been on a roll during Covid-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ola Electric said on Monday it has raised $200 million in a new financing round even as the Indian ride-hailing giant’s spin off struggles to deliver its maiden electric scooter to customers and questions about its work culture are being raised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You have to start somewhere. So when Jayce Hafner and Sami Tellatin bonded as Stanford MBA classmates over their shared belief that making U.S. farms more efficient would be good for farmers, good for the country, and a great business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ahead of the company’s upcoming earnings, Peloton CEO John Foley took a break from a “quiet period” to address a number of reports related to poor device sales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Despite producing global hits like “Squid Game” in 2021, Netflix’s fourth quarter returns show the streaming giant struggling to maintain a lead over its competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

By adding some electrodes and some electronics to your earbuds, Wisear can make your music experience a lot more hands-free than before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wandercraft was founded in 2012, with the vision of improving mobility of wheelchair users. The company’s solution comes by way of exoskeletons, which can offer wearers the ability to walk with robotic assistance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company’s no-code software can automate any kind of process: employee onboarding, contract approvals, help tickets or any other recurring work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Harness, a startup from AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal, has been building a platform of developer tools over the last five years. In 2020, the company made its first foray into open source when it bought continuous integration tool Drone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The pandemic hasn’t been easy for anyone, but the food service industry has been hit particularly hard. More than 90,000 restaurants and bars have closed, leaving workers unemployed in an already precarious industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British autonomous vehicle startup Wayve has raised a $200 million Series B funding round from investors to scale its technology and expand its partnerships with commercial fleets. Wayve is aiming to be a major player in the arena of Robo-deliveries and logistics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

nCore Games has raised $10 million in a new financing round as the top Indian gaming firm gears up to launch web3 offerings, its top executives said Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms can include anxiety, chronic boredom, impulsiveness, trouble concentrating, controlling anger, and even depression. But ADHD suffers can face lengthy waiting periods for assessment and prohibitively expensive treatments. Now a startup, which launched in 2020, hopes to address this by luring the knowledge of a team of clinicians and coaches [...

A congruence of factors in India — notably, climate change policies, fuel costs and skyrocketing demand for e-commerce — has set up ideal conditions for startups like all-electric commercial vehicle startup EVage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Simply put, Big Tech benefits from stealing IP. The legal costs and potential damages, if ever issued after years of litigation, are paltry by comparison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starting an e-commerce business is large marketplaces can be an easy process, but what the team at Swell began to notice was that the model could only take a business so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Merchants can add “return assurance” to an order, if it is returned in the next 30 days, Seel, instead of the merchant, will pay for the refund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ecommerce Brands aims to differentiate itself from the crowded aggregator space by being the technology force for DTC brands to scale while operators focus on running their businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company’s technology transforms huge volumes of IT data into actionable insight and automates incident management so IT operations teams can be proactive about their response processes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices