🛍 Amazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage through surging inflation

Plus: Shopify launches Collabs for creators to earn revenue on the platform, A Frustrating Hassle Holding Electric Cars Back: Broken Chargers, and more…

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Amazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage through surging inflation. Amazon is raising fulfillment fees during the holiday shopping period as the company contends with rising costs. From Oct. 15 through Jan. 22, third-party sellers who use Fulfillment by Amazon will have to pay 35 cents per item sold in the U.S. or… (Annie Palmer / CNBC)

Steve Kovach @stevekovach

Amazon raising its fulfillment fees on third-party sellers for the holidays for the first time. Inflation.

cnbc.comAmazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage through surging inflationAmazon is increasing fees paid by sellers who use its shipping services as the company contends with rising costs.

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Shopify launches Collabs, a new way for creators to earn revenue on the platform. Shopify announced today that it's launching a new “Shopify Collabs” offering to connect creators with merchants on its platform and give them a new way to make money. With this new… (Aisha Malik / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Shopify launches Collabs, a new way for creators to earn revenue on the platform tcrn.ch/3w7A2kd by @AiishaMalik1

tcrn.chShopify Collabs is a new way for creators to earn revenue – TechCrunchWith Shopify Collabs, Shopify says creators will be able to easily discover and partner with independent businesses.

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A Frustrating Hassle Holding Electric Cars Back: Broken Chargers. The federal government is doling out billions of dollars to encourage people to buy electric vehicles. Automakers are building new factories and scouring the world for raw materials. And so many people want them that the waiting lists for… (Niraj Chokshi / The New York Times)

NYTimes Tech @nytimestech

The electric vehicle revolution is nearly here, but its arrival is being slowed by a fundamental problem: The chargers where people refuel these cars are often broken.

nyti.msA Frustrating Hassle Holding Electric Cars Back: Broken ChargersOwners of battery-powered cars sometimes struggle to refuel on longer trips because public chargers don’t work or malfunction while cars are plugged in.

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The Pandemic's Soft Closing. A quick skim of the CDC's latest COVID guidelines might give the impression that this fall could feel a lot like the ones we had in the Before Times. Millions of Americans will be working in person at offices, and schools and universities will be… (Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic)

Daniel S. Goldberg @prof_goldberg

.@KatherineJWu has an excellent article on the "Pandemic's Soft Closing" & our virtual abandonment of a population health approach 2 pandemic response & control. Many excellent experts feature, incl. @Arrianna_Planey @JasonSalemi, @Lakshmi_RKG etc. 1/

theatlantic.comThe Pandemic’s Soft ClosingThe CDC’s latest COVID guidelines are the closest the nation’s leaders have come to saying the coronavirus crisis is done.

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Omni looks to take on Looker with its cloud-powered BI platform. There's been an explosion of business intelligence (BI) tools in recent years, or tools that analyze and convert raw data into info for use in decision making. Investments in them are on the rise, but… (Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Omni looks to take on Looker with its cloud-powered BI platform tcrn.ch/3w9nXL4 by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

tcrn.chOmni looks to take on Looker with its cloud-powered BI platform – TechCrunchOmni, a startup building a business intelligence platform in the cloud, has emerged from stealth with $26.9 million in financing and the backing of former Google execs.

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