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Big Tech is slowly, carefully creeping into banking

by Molly Wood and Maria Hollenhorst
Mar 13, 2018
After disrupting retail, bookstores and media, tech companies are tiptoeing into the highly-regulated world of banking.
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Amazon puts a Ring on it

by Reema Khrais
Feb 28, 2018
Amazon’s purchase of Ring, a maker of video doorbells, could help it solve its problems with package theft by making it easier for packages to be delivered inside people’s homes. But Ring’s greater value may come in the extra juice it gives Amazon in the battle to dominate the connected home. Click the audio player […]
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Why Intermountain Healthcare is making generic drugs

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 28, 2018
Rising drug prices are part of what's driving health care inflation. What do you do if you are a big health care company? Start your own drug company.
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Amazon will pilot package carrier service in Los Angeles

by Aaron Schrank
Feb 9, 2018
As Amazon expands its logistics operations, it’s inching closer to developing a service that competes with FedEx and UPS. Shares of both package carriers fell today after news of Amazon’s new Shipping with Amazon service was reported in the Wall Street Journal. The company is piloting that service in Los Angeles, delivering some goods sold […]
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When companies choose not to go public, does that hurt the public?

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
Feb 5, 2018
Fewer companies are going public than did 20 years ago. How does that change the fortunes of all Americans?
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Amazon, Buffett, JPMorgan Chase tackle US health care tapeworm

by Associated Press
Jan 30, 2018
The potential disruption from three renowned innovators in technology and finance sent a shock wave through the health care sector, erasing billions in market capitalization in seconds.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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The convenience store of the future is always watching

by Stephanie Hughes and Molly Wood
Jan 24, 2018
Sure, no lines sounds great, but is being constantly monitored worth the trade-off?
Shoppers scan the Amazon Go app on their mobile devices as the enter the store Monday in Seattle. Amazon opened the cashier-less store to the public after more than a year in beta.
Stephen Brashear/Getty Images
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What’s the strategy behind Amazon’s decision to hike monthly Prime membership rates?

by Reema Khrais
Jan 19, 2018
Amazon is raising its monthly Prime membership rate, from $10.99 to $12.99. But the annual membership cost is staying the same, at $99. So what’s the logic here? Is Amazon trying to push more people into becoming annual members? Might the price hike prompt some people to drop the service altogether? What are the pros […]
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Amazon narrows list to 20 for its second headquarters

by Associated Press
Jan 18, 2018
The retail giant has narrowed the list after sorting through 238 proposals.
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Diners aren't showing up as expected near Amazon HQ1, causing some restaurants to close

by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Jan 2, 2018
Amazon's HQ1 neighborhood empties out at night, so some restaurant owners aren't finding the dining market they expected.
Empty chairs in the recently closed bar, Cantine in Seattle's South Lake Union, look out at neighborhood workers with lunch takeout containers. The bar and several other restaurants closed this year because of lackluster dinner patronage.
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