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WSJ found third-party merchants selling thousands of unsafe, mislabeled, and banned products on Amazon Amazon third-party merchants were found to have over 4,000 items deemed unsafe by federal agencies, labeled misleadingly, or banned by federal regulators.
These listings, many of which were changed or taken down after The Wall Street Journal alerted Amazon of them, included toys and medications where unsafe products can be especially dangerous.
Third-party sellers are the driving force behind Amazon's retail business, but if it's unable to effectively moderate their listings, it could damage Amazon's reputation.
A recent ruling in the US could mean that Amazon is liable for defective purchases made on its marketplace, which might lead to a number of suits against Amazon and it having to regulate its platform more heavily.
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| | | Apple will integrate its Health Records platform with many products from electronic health records (EHR) vendor Allscripts, including Sunrise, TouchWorks, and Professional EHR systems. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Illumina — maker of the DNA decoding system that serves as the backbone for most genetic testing companies — has lowered its full-year expectations, citing near term uncertainties in the direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing market. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Google and Dell have partnered to create enterprise-oriented laptops and 2-in-1 devices running the search giant's Chrome OS. Read More → | | | | |
| | | US Bank has announced that it is adding new features to its US Bank Mobile App including the option to use the app in Spanish and availability on Android devices. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Chinese technology giant Huawei has launched its data center AI chip, the Ascend 910, to step up its challenge to US-based chipmakers. Read More → | | | | |
| | | The latest Alexa integration will be with the next-generation Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch, which the wearables company announced Wednesday. Read More → | | | | |
| | | BharatPe works with small merchants that may not have accepted digital payments before and gives them a QR code that enables consumers to pay via the country's Unified Payments Interface (UPI), as well as a digital dashboard and access to short-term loans. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Designed as a companion app to Instagram, Threads is meant to facilitate communication between Instagram users and their "close friends," allowing them to share their location, photos, videos, and messages, all of which are uses popular among Snapchat users. Read More → | | | | |
| | | T-Mobile notified some of the wireless contractors it works with that it would be delaying purchase orders for new infrastructure and 5G upgrades until 2020, unless the contractors already had the project materials. Read More → | | | | |
| | | The UK's newly appointed prime minister Boris Johnson's request to prorogue — suspend — Parliament for up to five weeks was granted by the Queen on Wednesday. Read More → | | | | |
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