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Spencer Platt | Getty Images #Amazon #Biometrics #Credit #Identification #AmazonGo #Datacollection Technology giant Amazon is working to allow customers to connect their credit card information to their hands so that they can scan for purchases with their palms at checkout areas in physical stores, people familiar with the project told The Wall Street Journal. While Amazon's plan is in the early stages, the company has reportedly begun working with Visa on testing out the terminals and has discussed the project with Mastercard, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Synchrony Financial. The company previously filed a patent for a "non-contact biometric identification system" that features a "hand scanner" to produce a picture of a person's palm. The news offers a look into Amazon's ideas on transforming the way people shop in brick-and-mortar stores, and how it could work with credit card companies to further integrate itself into people's fina...

# MakingTheCut #HeidiKlum #TimGunn #Amazon #NaomiCampbell #NicoleRichie Project Runway  is still going strong, but fans of the show’s original flavor could be forgiven for missing two of its missing mainstays.  Now, former  Project Runway  hosts  Heidi Klum  and  Tim Gunn  reunite in the first trailer for Amazon’s fashion competition show  Making the Cut , and it feels so good. As you might notice,  Making the Cut  has an extremely familiar set-up (twelve designers, different fashion challenges, a juicy exclusive line with Amazon dangled as a carrot.)  However, unlike  Project Runway,  viewers will be able to buy the show’s winning look each week on  Amazon  immediately after each episode premieres.  So, instead of watching Michael Kors tear into every look each week, you can watch judges Naomi Campbell and Nicole Richie tear into them, then have a drone deliver the best of the b...

#Amazon #JeffBezos #DavidGeffen #LosAngeles Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world's wealthiest person with homes around the world, is adding to his real estate portfolio.  Bezos has purchased the historic Warner Estate in Beverly Hills from medial mogul David Geffen for an eye-popping $165 million in what is believed to be a record deal for Los Angeles, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Geffen purchased the 9.4-acre estate in 1990 for a reported $47.5 million. The legendary estate is also known as the Jack Warner Estate, built by the former head of Warner Bros. Studio in 1937. A 1992 Architectural Digest article said only a handful of Beverly Hills houses rivaled the Warner estate. The article described it as a "13,600-square-foot Georgian-style mansion" with "expansive terraces and gardens, two guesthouses, nursery and three hothouses, tennis court, swimming pool, nine-hole golf course and motor court complete with its own service garage and gas pumps...

          #MariahCarey #Christmas #Xmas  #Amazon          All she wants for Christmas is you — and, well, a few other things. Pop diva extraordinaire and undisputed  Christmas queen  Mariah Carey has  teamed up with Amazon  to curate an exclusive  list  of her holiday "must-haves" for 2019. The gift guide arrived over the weekend to mark the 25th anniversary of her 1994 holiday album  Merry Christmas  and its  record-breaking  single "All I Want for Christmas is You," which has been the most-streamed holiday track for two years running. We stan a yuletide legend. Carey's list features more than two dozen home goods and "fan essentials" that were hand-selected by the elusive chanteuse herself, including a  Bluetooth-enabled vanity mirror , a  tea set , a  giant stuffed giraffe  just like the one her in her twins' nursery, and a collectible  Funko ...

#Amazon #FoodStamps #Employees #SNAPbenefits Amazon is one of the top employers of those who receive SNAP benefits, otherwise known as food stamps, in at least five states.  Nearly one in three Amazon employees in Arizona and 1 in 10 in Ohio were on food stamps or lived with someone who was in 2017, according to data obtained by nonprofit New Food Economy from state governments. In Pennsylvania, one in 10 Amazon employees were on food stamps. Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, a prominent critic of Amazon, has announced plans to introduce legislation that would tax companies when their employees are on government assistance. A number of Amazon employees in at least five states are on food stamps, or the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). That's according to data obtained by nonprofit New Food Economy from state governments in the US. New Food was able to get data from five states: Arizona, Kansas, Ohio, Washington, and Pennsylvan...

Pick up any good bargains on Cyber Monday? Amazon has just announced it as the single biggest shopping day (in terms of the number of items sold) in the company’s history, with millions of people hitting its site to make the most of the day’s discounts and offers. In the U.S., the best-selling item at Amazon.com on Monday was the all-new Echo Dot smart speaker, with “millions” sold, though Amazon declined to offer a specific figure. Other top sellers included Bose QC 25 noise-canceling headphones, the multi-use Instant Pot Duo, Michelle Obama’s Becoming autobiography, and the Jenga game. Across the five days from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, Amazon said customers ordered a staggering 180 million items via its U.S. site alone. Globally, customers ordered more than 18 million toys and more than 13 million fashion items on Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined, the company said. The Echo Dot speaker was a big hit around the world, too, becoming the biggest-selling product on...