Amazon taps ?on-demand? workers for one-hour deliveries
Under the new service, called Amazon Flex, people sign up for shifts through an app that prompts them to fetch packages from mini-warehouses and take them to customers? homes in as little as one hour. Amazon pays the drivers about $20 an hour to make the deliveries.
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Alibaba takes stake in Indian mobile payments start-up
Alibaba and its financial services arm, Ant Financial, have made a "strategic" investment in India's largest mobile payment and commerce platform, Paytm, as investors flock to get a piece of the burgeoning Indian start-up scene.
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Sonos software upgrade allows speakers to tune to your room
Users wave their mobile device around the areas of a room where the listener most often is, while the speaker emits a series of blips and tones covering a whole range of frequencies. The app senses where in the room that sound is obscured and compensates using a smart equalizer.
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Google unveils new devices to connect smartphone and TV
Google on Tuesday revealed two new Chromecast streaming devices ? one for televisions, another for speakers ? along with a new tablet computer and a pair of new devices from the company?s Nexus line of Android mobile phones.
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