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Sep 17, 2019

Amazon (AMZN, $1,807.84) refutes report on algorithm's profit-bias

E-commerce giant Amazon.com reportedly made some tweaks to its product search algorithm in an attempt to give greater prominence to products that are more profitable for the company, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Citing people who worked on the project, The Journal indicated that Amazon optimized its algorithm in a way that boosts listings of items that are profitable for the company – not just those that are most relevant or bestsellers corresponding to customers’ searches.

The report also mentioned that the algo adjustment was made late last year, and followed a conflict between executives who run the company’s retail division in Seattle and a search team in California called A9, which was opposed to the change.

Amazon, however, denied the allegations. Its spokeswoman Angie Newman has indicated to the Journal that the company designs its search results to reflect customers preferences, irrespective of whether they are the company’s own brands or are products offered by its selling partners.

Amazon also put out a tweet refuting the charges .”@WSJ story based on anonymous sources is wrong. We have not changed the criteria we use to rank search results to include profitability. We feature products customers want, regardless of whether they are our own brands or products offered by our selling partners. “

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Sergey Savastiouk

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Mar 14, 2023

How to Start Trading Penny Stocks

Penny stocks have long been marginalized within the professional investment community, oftentimes being painted with a broad brush of simply being “too risky.” Leonardo DiCaprio’s depiction of the penny stock peddling conman, Jordan Belfort, in the Wolf of Wall Street certainly didn’t help.Here are four reasons to start trading them now. Reason #1: Let’s State the Obvious -- Penny Stocks are Cheap A single share of Apple Inc. costs over $350.

Dmitry Perepelkin

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Mar 14, 2023

5 Habits that Lead to Successful Investing

To consistently make money in this industry, you need emotional fortitude, an analytical mind, and a willingness to self-reflect. Despite trading and investing being two different activities, these principles can be applied to both.Conversely, investors with good habits often become great traders. Rather than full sentences for titles, we’ve labeled each of our top-five investing habits using a single word principle.

Sergey Savastiouk

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Mar 13, 2023

4 Tips for Fast, Effective Stock Analysis

With just a few clicks, an investor can search for individual stocks, categories of stocks, sectors, or investment themes, and then he or she can conduct a full range of technical and fundamental analysis within seconds.All powered by Artificial Intelligence. Below, we give you 5 tips for fast, effective stock analysis using Tickeron’s Screener.

Sergey Savastiouk

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Mar 20, 2023

5 Golden Principles in Investing

You have enough faith in that stock, based on research, that the return will equal or exceed the investment. Do unto others.The principles outlined here will ensure that happens. Principle #1: Diversification Investors can’t be one-dimensional when constructing a portfolio.

Sergey Savastiouk

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Mar 15, 2023

The five most important Lessons Learned After 10,000 hours of Trading

Edward Flores

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Mar 12, 2023

What's the Difference Between Tokens and Altcoins?

Between their inherently technical nature, multiple varieties and sub-varieties, and endless terminology, cryptocurrency (defined here as digital or virtual currencies that are encrypted using cryptography, powered by the immutable digital ledger known as the blockchain) represents a whole, complex world.All altcoins possess their own blockchain, independent from their source code, that records all transactions of their native coins. Many altcoins are variants, or forks, of Bitcoin that leverage that cryptocurrency’s open-source protocol as the basis.

Edward Flores

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Mar 15, 2023

4 Ways to Save for Retirement Without a 401(k)

401(k) plans are attractive savings options for good reasons: tax breaks, potential employer matching, and access to growth investments.Roth IRA contributions are made in after-tax dollars, and withdrawals for account owners age 59 ½ or older are tax free (if the account is at least five years old). Investors with an individual adjusted gross income below $32,000 can even claim between 10 and 50 percent of contributions as a saver’s tax credit.

Sarah Patel

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Mar 22, 2022

Nike (NKE, $130.03) beats fiscal Q3 earnings expectations

Sergey Savastiouk

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Mar 16, 2023

Artificial Intelligence for Language Translation?

Some use cases – predicting earthquakes, recognizing objects, and comparing medical scans, for example – offer tantalizing glimpses of a promising future.Now, MIT researchers have announced an “unsupervised” language translation model whose early returns signal a future with “faster, more efficient computer-based translations of far more languages.” Most widely-used translation programs (like Google’s) learn via models.

Lester Daniels

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Mar 15, 2023

How Artificial Intelligence Can Boost your Trading Results