Daily Crunch: Amazon takes action against FedEx

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Daily Crunch: Amazon takes action against FedEx

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1. Amazon's third-party merchants are now barred from using FedEx Ground for Prime shipments

Amazon recently told third-party vendors that they are barred from using FedEx's ground delivery services for Prime shipments. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon told merchants that the ban will last "until the delivery performance of these ship methods improves."

The e-commerce platform will still allow FedEx Ground for non-Prime shipments and FedEx Express, a faster but pricier option, for Prime.

2. New media investment firm Attention Capital acquires Girlboss

Attention Capital is a new outfit that buys, builds and scales media brands. Girlboss, meanwhile, is the female-focused multi-media business founded by Nastygal's Sophia Amoruso, who will join the firm as a founder partner.

3. Google has fired another worker-activist

Kathryn Spiers, who worked on the platform security team, was generally tasked with writing code for browser notifications to automatically notify employees about guidelines and company policies. According to Spiers, Google fired her because she created a browser notification to educate her colleagues about their labor rights.

4. Automated web app testing startup ProdPerfect raises $13M Series A led by Anthos Capital

ProdPerfect automates end-to-end testing for web developers. According to CEO Dan Widing, the product "followed some of the lessons of the product analytics industry to build a tool that lets us quantitatively understand how our customer's live users traverse the custom




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