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    Amazon introduces Twitter service

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    By Mae Anderson, Retail Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Amazon wants to make shopping online as easy as a tweet.

    The online retailer is introducing a service that lets Twitter users add Amazon.com products to their carts without leaving the social media site.

    The service comes as Amazon seeks to make social media a bigger source for sales. Twitter also has been seeking new revenue streams beyond advertising services like promoted tweets.

    Under the program, users must link their Amazon.com account with their Twitter account. Then they need to add the hashtag #AmazonCart when replying to a tweet that has an Amazon product link. The product will then be automatically added to their shopping cart.

    Twitter users will get a reply tweet from @MyAmazon as well as an email from Amazon when the item is successfully added to their cart.

    The service is for U.S. customers only, although U.K. users have a similar service with the hashtag #AmazonBasket.

    "This is an example of the constant innovation both Amazon and Twitter are using to push social shopping forward, but I don't think it's going to be a huge needle mover for either company," said CRT Capital analyst Neil Doshi. "More and more people are showing items they've bought on Twitter, so it might be a way for followers to buy something more quickly."

    Shares in Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. rose $1.63 to $309.64 in afternoon trading. Shares in Twitter Inc., which is based in San Francisco, rose 9 cents to $39.11.




    Charlie Rose settles sexual harassment lawsuit years after his #MeToo-era ouster

    Wednesday, November 27, 2024
    Charlie Rose attends The Hollywood Reporter's 35 Most Powerful People in Media party in New York, April 13, 2017. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

    Former TV host Charlie Rose has resolved a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by three women in the wake of his #MeToo-era ouster from CBS News in 2017 and the cancellation of his long-running, eponymous PBS talk show.

    In settling, the plaintiffs said they assign no "ill intent" to Rose and realize now that his conduct could be subject to interpretation.

    Lawyers for Rose and the women — younger employees who accused him of "predatory behavior" and "blatant and repeated sexual harassment" — filed court papers this week confirming that the lawsuit has been resolved. An online court docket listed the case as settled. The terms were not disclosed.

    The lawsuit had been set to go to trial Monday in Manhattan after years of sparring over the women's allegations and the dismissal of their retaliation claims against Rose.

    Plaintiffs Katherine Brooks Harris, Sydney McNeal and Yuqing Wei said in a statement that the litigation process and the required pretrial exchange of evidence known as discovery had enabled both sides to "better understand each others' points of view."

    "On reflection, and after having the benefit of discovery, we realize that different people could interpret the conduct in different ways, and therefore we have resolved the claims," the women said. "We do not assign any bad motive or ill intent to Charlie Rose."

    A lawyer for Rose, 82, and his production company, Charlie Rose Inc., declined comment.

    The veteran TV host has apologized in the past for his behavior, including in a statement on the eve of his November 2017 firing after at least eight women had come forward to accuse him of misconduct.

    "It is essential that these women know I hear them and I deeply apologize for my inappropriate... Read More

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