🛒 A slippery slope: OneText, which just raised $4.5 million, is a startup building a "text-to-buy network." It lets shoppers complete purchases over text message and even lets them repurchase products by simply replying to text messages. Dangerous!
🪞 A mockery: Amazon's annual Prime Day shopping event starts today. Bookshop.org, an e-commerce site that connects shoppers to local independent booksellers, is hosting a sale of its own. It posted an invitation to the sale that looks pretty similar to a recent wedding invitation from a certain somebody.
🙋 Questions remain: U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer is refusing to disclose whether it paid a hacking group after a cyberattack earlier this year. The company said it doesn't see any public interest in its disclosure of interactions with the cyber criminals.
🕹️ A hack! Gaming giant Activision took down Call of Duty: WWII, the 2017 version of its popular first-person shooter game, because hackers were exploiting a flaw in a specific PC version of the game.
🚙 Teen time: Robotaxi company Waymo is launching teen accounts for the youth in Phoenix so teenagers older than 14 can hail their own autonomous rides. Like Uber's teen accounts, these are linked to their parents' accounts.
