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  • Book News: Google, Barnes & Noble Team Up To Take On Amazon
    Also: Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein will complete Nora Ephron's unfinished screenplay for Lost in Austen; finalists for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year are announced.
  • Walmart And Amazon's Food Fight
    Amazon and Walmart each want to sell you groceries as part of their plan to sell everyone everything. So now Walmart is inventing new kinds of foods to lure customers into the store.
  • News Brief: Impeachment Inquiry, Opioid Crisis, Amazon Workers
    More transcripts are released in the House impeachment inquiry. Federal prosecutors begin a probe of some pharmaceutical companies. A report finds high injury rates among Amazon warehouse employees.
  • The Consumer Psychology Behind Amazon Prime
    Amazon Prime day is the 36-hour shopping holiday with discounts only for Amazon Prime members.
  • Listen: 'Web Site Story,' NPR's Musical About The Internet — From 1999
    Found in our archives: an Internet-themed remake of West Side Story from the dot-com bubble era. It begins with Bill Gates and features the sound of a modem but isn't as obsolete as you might expect.
  • The man who led the 1st Amazon warehouse to unionize in America
    The story of Chris Smalls is one of the biggest underdog victories in modern corporate history. Fired two years ago, he has now organized Amazon's very first unionized warehouse in America.
  • Dating Web Site Plants Seeds of Love
    FarmersOnly.com, an online dating service that started last spring, is designed for farmers but open to anyone. It features profiles of more than 1,800 people from around the country. Jerry Miller, who is not a farmer, created the site after listening to a divorced farmer describe her dating dilemmas.
  • Pictured is a FedEx truck produced by BrightDrop, a General Motors company dedicated exclusively to electric delivery vehicles. FedEx was BrightDrop's first customer. The delivery company has pledged to replace its entire pickup and delivery fleet with electric vehicles by 2040.
    From Amazon To FedEx, The Delivery Truck Is Going Electric
    It's not just passenger cars: Delivery companies are updating their vans and trucks with electric models as they look to save on fuel and cut maintenance costs.
  • Cloudflare outage exposes reliance on a handful of Internet companies
    NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Betsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert at the Aspen Institute, about this week's major Internet outage and the world's reliance on a handful of web services companies.
  • FCC To Propose 'Net Neutrality' Rules
    Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to propose new rules Monday on Network Neutrality. The new rules are designed to keep Internet providers from interfering with the free flow of information over their networks. The FCC's position has wide implications for how Americans will access the Internet in the future.
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