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Amazon closing UK-based online shop Book Depository
MultiVersus Early Access Closing in June, Full Release Window Confirmed
Tom Waits’ Closing Time due for 50th anniversary reissue
Waits’ legendary debut comes back to vinyl
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Aragami 1 and 2 developers closing down next month
The developers of breezy stealth ’em ups Aragami 1 and 2 are closing down. Lince Works announced the news earlier today, saying that they would “stop the development of new projects indefinitely, starting this April.” Both games will remain available for sale and online co-op will still be accessible.
Amazon Is Permanently Closing Eight Cashierless Stores
[T]he closings, first reported by Geekwire, are another sign of cost-cutting efforts at the online shopping giant. […] The stores being closed include two in downturn Seattle that had already been shut on a temporary basis, leaving five in the city. In addition it is closing two in New York City and four in San Francisco. The six closings of stores still operating are due to take place April 1. In addition to the 21 Amazon Go stores that will remain, there are two locations in New York that the brand shares with Starbucks.
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Amazon officially becomes a health care provider after closing purchase of One Medical
Amazon’s months-long effort to acquire One Medical is finished — for now, at least. The company has officially completed its $3.9 billion purchase, giving it a primary healthcare provider with in-person and virtual treatment as well as lab tests. The successful buyout isn’t leading to any immediate changes in One Medical’s services beyond a temporary $55 discount on a one-year membership (now $144), but Amazon said last July that it planned a “reinvention” of healthcare with the takeover.
The completion comes just a day after the Federal Trade Commission said it wouldn’t contest the buyout. However, the regulator also says it’s still investigating the deal to explore potential anti-competitive effects and privacy concerns raised by Amazon’s access to health data. An FTC official toldCNN the agency will warn Amazon it’s closing the purchase at its own risk, and might still face a government challenge later.
Amazon has spent years making deeper forays into healthcare. It bought PillPack in 2018 and used the provider to launch an in-house pharmacy service. The online shopping heavyweight also introduced an app-based health service for employees in 2019 that it later offered to other companies. In 2021, the company introduced a custom Alexa for healthcare. The One Medical move theoretically completes the picture by letting Amazon handle everything from minor doctor’s appointments through to prescriptions.
Whether or not Amazon could endure an FTC challenge isn’t clear. Commission chair Lina Khan is known to be wary of Big Tech, and her stance even prompted Amazon to ask for her recusal from antitrust cases. There’s no certainty the FTC might succeed, though, and it recently lost an effort to block Meta’s purchase of Within. One Medical is considerably larger than Within, though, and its healthcare focus brings up privacy concerns that aren’t always present in tech acquisitions.
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The Xbox 360 store won’t be closing down, despite what an Xbox support page says
Microsoft will not be closing down the Xbox 360 Marketplace, the company tells The Verge, even though text on an official Xbox support page indicated that was the plan.
Earlier this week, Microsoft said that it would be pulling many beloved games like Jet Set Radio and The Orange Box from the 360 store on February 7th. That was disappointing enough, but then, thanks to a tweet from Wario64, we saw that text on a support page said the company planned to shutter the Xbox 360 Marketplace “over the next year” and that it encouraged players to “purchase any 360 games or DLC by May 2023.” As of this writing, you can still see the message here by scrolling down a little bit.
Xbox Support search page says that Xbox 360 Marketplace will be…