New details have emerged about Amazon.com Inc.’s “Project Nessie” algorithm, which is a major focus of a lawsuit the Federal Trade Commission recently brought against the company. The Wall Street ...

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A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm. A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm. is a reporter who covers the politics and power influencing the tech ...

The FTC's lawsuit against Amazon alleging anti-competitive practices is largely full of things we already knew in a general sense: price hikes, pressure to use Amazon fulfillment and so on. But then ...

In a nutshell: A redacted portion of the FTC's monopoly lawsuit against Amazon accuses the tech giant of using a secret pricing algorithm that allowed the company to see how far it could raise its ...

The mysterious “Project Nessie,” hinted at in what little was not redacted in the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon, is indeed an algorithmic pricing scheme that raised prices where it could do so safely, ...

Amazon has become ubiquitous with shopping. If you want nearly anything, you can get it on Amazon, typically for cheaper price compared to other top retailers. Plus, Prime members often receive their ...

TikTok is now allowing Oracle to review changes to its algorithms in an effort to double-check they aren’t being influenced by the Chinese government. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has been ...

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J. Nathan Matias is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, and a 2022–23 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral ...