Mobile Minutes: Facebook downgrades media pages; Chatbot lawyer; Amazon’s ad-subsidized phones; Walmart offers free shipping
Facebook Inc. will make changes to its News Feed rankings, highlighting posts from friends and family over those from publishers and brand pages that users have “liked.”
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Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York
An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful.
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Amazon slashes prices on budget phones by half – but there’s a catch
If you could save a few bucks on a new phone by allowing ads on your lockscreen, would you do it?
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With Amazon in sight, Walmart to offer free shipping for 30 days
Walmart Stores Inc. said it launched a free 30-day trial of ShippingPass, its two-day shipping program to all shoppers in the United States, as the world’s largest retailer looks to take on Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime subscription service.
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