Amazon's Grocery Delivery and Alexa's New Bill Management Features

Earnings from Alphabet and Shopify, hacking the Olympics, the Rise of the Rest rides again, Amazon is making grocery delivery free and letting you pay your electric bill via Alexa, and don’t update your HomePod, or you might brick it.

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Links:

• Alphabet Earnings Dented by Spending on Cloud Business (Bloomberg)
• Shopify Shares Tumble After Surprise Loss on Spending Boost (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft: Russian hackers are targeting sporting organizations ahead of Tokyo Olympics (ZDNet)
• AOL Founder Steve Case Launches Second $150 Million ‘Rise Of The Rest’ Fund To Back Entrepreneurs Across U.S. (Forbes)
• China to Funnel $29 Billion Towards its Chip Ambitions (Bloomberg)
• Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime members to boost use (TechCrunch)
• Amazon will let you pay bills with Alexa (VentureBeat)
• New 13.2 Update Bricking Some HomePods [Update Pulled by Apple] (MacRumors)
• PlayStation Vue is Shutting Down Live TV Streaming Service in January (The Streamable)

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