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Amazon Japan hit with a raid over antitrust concerns

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has conducted a raid on Amazon over antitrust concerns. “There is a suspicion that Amazon Japan is forcing sellers to cut prices in an irrational way,” an unnamed source told Reuters. Amazon Japan received an on-site inspection by the regulator today to explore whether the retailer gives better product placement in […]

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ExpressVPN Black Friday deal: Get up to 61 percent off a 30-month plan

In addition to all of the gadgets and gear you can find on sale during Black Friday, there are also a number of service and subscription deals you can get, too. VPNs are included in this, and there’s a good deal on one of our favorites right now. ExpressVPN’s Black Friday deal gives US-based customers […]

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Uber's latest gig economy play is offering out coders for hire

Bloomberg reports that Uber has started farming out independent contractors for data-labeling services as well as coders-for-hire. Uber describes its new Scaled Solutions division as a platform of “analysts, testers and independent data operators,” according to the company’s website. Scaled Solutions began life as an internal team, handling “large-scale annotation tasks” for Uber’s other services. […]

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FTC warns that companies don't disclose how long connected devices will be supported

The US Fair Trade Commission published a paper that found 89 percent of connected devices do not detail how long the item will receive software support. The study examined product websites looking for specifics about how long the company expected to support the device. Within the 11 percent of product sites that shared this information, […]

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Farcaster founder teases Frames v2 ahead of full launch in 2025

A new and improved version of Frames will allow users to run full-screen applications inside the social media platform Warpcast.  Source: https://cointelegraph.com/rss Farcaster founder teases Frames v2 ahead of full launch in 2025