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Live shopping in the US on Amazon, Instagram, and Google is imminent, following its explosive growth in China, which saw 560M live-stream viewers in March (Ashley Carman/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / The Verge: Live shopping in the US on Amazon, Instagram, and Google is imminent, following its explosive growth in China, which saw 560M live-stream viewers in March  —  Carla Stevenné’s first live stream terrified her.  As part of Amazon Live’s influencer beta group, she needed to find stuff to sell … Live

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This Dutch startup sells microdosing kits to boost productivity — so I did magic truffles for a month

The idea of microdosing hallucinogenic drugs to boost productivity has always fascinated me. I’m easily distracted and quite chaotic, so taking tiny amounts of recreational drugs to help me address that sounds like a good time to me. Microdosing for productivity is nothing new, of course. Silicon Valley nerds have been raving about taking tiny

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Huawei's growth slowed sharply due to US sanctions with Q3 revenue of $32.5B, up 3.7% YoY; revenue growth for 2020 so far is 9.9% compared to 24.4% in 2019 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei’s growth slowed sharply due to US sanctions with Q3 revenue of $32.5B, up 3.7% YoY; revenue growth for 2020 so far is 9.9% compared to 24.4% in 2019  —  – For the first nine months of the year, revenue totaled 671.3 billion yuan ($98.57 billion), up 9.9% from the 610.8

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Lyft says riders will have the option to pay for and split fares using Venmo, the feature will become available for US users over the coming weeks (Matt Burns/TechCrunch)

Matt Burns / TechCrunch: Lyft says riders will have the option to pay for and split fares using Venmo, the feature will become available for US users over the coming weeks  —  Lyft riders will soon have the option for paying and splitting fares using Venmo, the company said in a blog posting this morning.

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