The U.S. government has accused retailing giants, Amazon of enrolling millions of consumers into its paid subscription Amazon Prime service without their consent and making it hard for them to cancel. Amazon Prime offers fast, free shipping on millions of items, various discounts and access to movies, music and television series, as well as other benefits. Prime members in the US pay $139 per year and drive much of Amazon’s sales volume. Prime has more than 200 million members worldwide. …
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Jeff Bezos’ wealth has reached new heights following a 4.4 percent surge in Amazon’s stock value. 56-year-old Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is now worth $172 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. This means he is richer now than he was prior to settling the most expensive divorce in history last year. Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie took 25 percent of his shares, which meant at the time her stake was worth more than $35 billion, according …
APPLE on Wednesday apologised for its digital assistant Siri sharing some of what it heard with quality control workers as it unveiled new rules for handling data from conversations. Under the changes, APPLE will allow its employees to review conversations only from customers who opt into the “Siri grading” program to improve the voice recognition technology. We will also delete by default any recordings used for the program. “We realize we haven’t been fully living up to our high ideals, …