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Bots Behaving Badly: Third-Party Amazon Sellers Design Problem Products by Algorithm
Critics slammed Amazon.com for selling Christmas ornaments, bottle openers and other trinkets that featured scenes of the Auschwitz concentration camp ー all made by a third party seller called "Fcheng."

Amazon Sellers May Be Designing Products By Algorithm
Offensive trinkets sold on the Amazon Marketplace may be part of a bigger problem facing retailers: the rise of robots using algorithms to generate an endless variety of cheap products--all to entice even one buyer. Juozas Kaziukėnas, founder of e-commerce analysis company Marketplace Pulse, explains how these sellers work.

Ford and McDonald's Team Up to Build Coffee Bean-Based Car Parts
The automaker and breakfast purveyor announced a collaboration to create plastic vehicle parts out of coffee bean waste from the roasting process.

Expedia Executives Depart, and the CEO Carousel Keeps Spinning
Expedia's Chief Executive Mark Okerstrom and Chief Financial Officer Alan Pickerill will resign their posts effective immediately. The year has been notable for how many chief executives have resigned, quit, or been forced out.

Figure Technologies Has Raised $103M for Digital Mortgage, Student Loan Refi
The San Francisco-based company, led by SoFi's former CEO Mike Cagney, provides fixed-rate Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOCs) in an all-digital process that promises borrowers decisions in less than five minutes and funding in less than five days.

Neiman Marcus CEO: Personalized Digital Shopping Experience Will Drive Growth
Geoffroy Van Raemdonick, CEO of Neiman Marcus, told Cheddar that the luxury retailer is embracing a guided online shopping experience with the help of personal shoppers and machine learning.

SoFi Opens Crypto Trading to New Yorkers
The New York State Department of Financial Services has granted the notoriously tough-to-get BitLicense to the digital bank to trade cryptocurrencies.

Need 2 Know: Trade and Tariffs, Prince Andrew’s Accuser
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Tuesday, December 3, 2019

U.S. Regulator Working to 'Keep the Lights On' as Energy Sector Evolves
The energy sector is in "a really exciting time," Chairman Neil Chatterjee told Cheddar Monday. His agency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is charged with overseeing the power grid.



