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Amazon Targets Google and Walmart With Plan to Catalog Every Product Online

Amazon plans to offer shoppers data about virtually every item available anywhere, even if the company doesn’t stock the item, Reuters reported Friday (Nov. 13), citing an internal document and unnamed sources. With this initiative, which is called World Product Graph, Amazon aims to provide shoppers with information that they currently can only find elsewhere. […] The post Amazon Targets Google…

Amazon Targets Google and Walmart With Plan to Catalog Every Product Online

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Mississippi River cruise ship struck by tanker in New Orleans

More than 129 people were onboard a Mississippi River cruise ship Friday when the Atlantic Asphalt tanker collided with it, according to a press release from the Port of New Orleans. The big picture: Search-and-rescue operations were ongoing Friday afternoon, but no reports of injuries were immediately available.

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