The Daily Dose

If you were a lucky Amazon.com customer today, you may have seen something unusual when accessing the site: A feature story from The Wirecutter, a highly regarded product review site, called The Best Travel Gear For Your Next Journey — with a percentage of those items available right there on Amazon. What’s up with that? Is Amazon now sponsoring independent editorial content directly on its portal? We caught up with Brian Lam, founder of The Wirecutter to get the 411. Anyone familiar with The Wirecutter knows about its participation in Amazon’s affiliate program — and that most of the site’s revenue…

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We’ve all heard of The Missing Link, but electric carmaker Tesla’s April 30th event — The Missing Piece — promises to be somewhat less elusive. The company’s invite to the press for a look-see, featuring Apple-esque cover art, is indeed a mysterious partial outline of … something with a curved top edge. However the buzz (and a previously emailed announcement) indicates that the company plans to unveil a new home battery at its design studio in Hawthorne, California (a hop-skip from Los Angeles). The battery for homes and businesses will likely be based on the company’s lithium-ion technology. While few details are available…

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