Walmart partners with Rakuten to open its first e-commerce store in Japan

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Walmart partners with Rakuten to open its first e-commerce store in JapanWalmart is continuing its strategy of revamping its businesses in Asia after the U.S. retail giant opened its first e-commerce store in Japan, where it is working with local retail giant Rakuten. The companies first announced a collaboration in January when they agreed to team […]

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Report: A manager at Uber’s self-driving unit warned executives about safety issues just days before fatal crash

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Report: A manager at Uber’s self-driving unit warned executives about safety issues just days before fatal crashLess than a week before a Uber self-driving SUV prototype struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last March, a manager sent executives an email cautioning that its autonomous vehicle unit needed to “work on establishing a culture […]

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HypeHop is a product to fix sponsored videos

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HypeHop is a product to fix sponsored videosI’ve been thinking hard about the concept of sponsored content — you can find some of it on TechCrunch if you look hard enough, and it appears almost everywhere else. It’s an important consideration, because as an online journalist I’ve heard everything from “How much did Apple pay […]

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Google’s search data shows YouTube’s influence over this season’s hottest toys

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Google’s search data shows YouTube’s influence over this season’s hottest toysIf there was any doubt about YouTube’s power to influence children, look no further than this year’s list of the hottest holiday toys, based on Google shopping search data. According to the search giant, at least four of the top 10 most searched toys were […]

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SoftBank invests in parking startup ParkJockey pushing valuation to $1 billion

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SoftBank invests in parking startup ParkJockey pushing valuation to $1 billionSoftBank continues to invest in the future of transportation — this time in ParkJockey, a startup that has built a technology platform aimed at monetizing parking lots. And ParkJockey, which was founded in 2013, is already using that capital to scale up. Along with the […]

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