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Daily Crunch: Amazon beats back union push
Efforts to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama appear to have failed, Facebook takes down fake review groups and a monkey plays Pong with its brain. This is your Daily Crunch for April 9, 2021. Th
RWDSU head says rerun election ‘very likely’ following Amazon union vote loss
However the outcome of today’s vote count turned out, there was one thing we knew for certain: it wasn’t going to mark the end of the battle between Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department
Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results
Efforts to unionize Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse were defeated by a wide margin in the second day of vote counting. More than half of the 3,215 votes cast broke in favor of the retailer. The
NLPCloud.io helps devs add language processing smarts to their apps
While visual ‘no code‘ tools are helping businesses get more out of computing without the need for armies of in-house techies to configure software on behalf of other staff, access to the
Chinese hardware makers turn to crowdfunding as they look to go global
China’s tech giants have had a rough time in Western markets over the last few years. Huawei and DJI have been hit by trade restrictions, while TikTok and WeChat are threatened with their apps b
Counting strongly favors Amazon in warehouse union vote
It’s been a little over a week since union voting concluded for Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. Things have been fairly quiet in the eye of the storm for most of it. That changed toda
Labor relations board sides with Amazon employees over firings
Last year, Amazon fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa. The pair of employees had been among the company’s most outspoken critics on staff, openly taking Amazon to task for environmental and labor
The Station: Argo AI plots its fundraising course and Waymo changes leadership
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Equity Monday: Edtech consolidation, and Amazon continues to make you like it less
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest pri
Amazon addresses pee bottle denial tweet
Amazon kicked off the holiday weekend by backtracking slightly on a social media offensive that unfolded in the waning days of a historic unionization vote. The earlier comments reportedly arrived as
Backflip offers an easier way to turn used electronics into cold, hard cash
Mike Barile spent two years and racked up nearly $20,000 in credit card debt to bring his first startup, Backflip, to life. The former management consultant had spent years toiling in the startup grin
QuikNode is building a blockchain developer cloud platform to compete with AWS
As hot as the blockchain space appears to be these days, it’s still far from simple to get a decentralized application reliably up and running. The NFT boom and rising cryptocurrency prices have
Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS
Apple is adding two new voices to Siri’s English offerings, and eliminating the default “female voice” selection in the latest beta version of iOS. This means that every person setti
Deliveroo drags on the LSE at £3.31, down 15% on its £3.90 pricing; closes down 44% on debut at £2.87
Update: It seems that the market is volatile indeed. After pricing its shares at the lower end of the range, Deliveroo, trading as “ROO” on the London Stock Exchange, opened at 331 pence (
Amazon partners with Seraphim on AWS accelerator for space startups
Amazon will soon be a big part of the space economy in the form of its Kuiper satellite internet constellation, but here on Earth its ambitions are more commonplace: get an accelerator going. TheyR
Amazon acquires Indian retail startup Perpule
Amazon has acquired a startup in India that is helping offline stores go online, the e-commerce group’s latest attempt to make inroads in the world’s second most populous nation where brick and mo
Ballot counting for Amazon’s historic union vote starts today
Vote counting begins today in the historic effort to unionize Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. The warehouse — which opened exactly a year ago to meet ramping up demand as COVID-
ABB and AWS team up to create an EV fleet management platform
Swiss automation and technology company ABB has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a cloud-based EV fleet management platform that it hopes will hasten the electrificat
Daily Crunch: Amazon makes PR push ahead of union vote
Amazon pushes back against unionization, WeWork eyes the SPAC route and there’s new spyware on Android. This is your Daily Crunch for March 26, 2021. The big story: Amazon makes PR push ahead of
E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods
The interest in creating value through e-commerce brands is striking. So what’s the roll-up hype about?