Afternoon Alexa Flash Briefings of October 11th 2023

Alexa Flash Briefings

This is your daily news briefing from Cheddar News. The Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule today that would ban hidden junk fees. The proposed changes with bar businesses from including mandatory surprise fees. The company sneak into customer bills. The FTC said if businesses want to include any mandatory fees in their pricing, they will need to list them in the total amount consumers see up front. Amazon is testing a new feature called Buy again. According to the Wall Street Journal, the feature is a tab on the home page and makes recommendations for items to be purchased again based on a shopper's history. The move comes amid slowing membership, sign up for prime and decrease spending from prime members. Now you can leave a facetime video message if you're called goes unanswered. A new feature was rolled out, rolled out on Apple's latest IOS 17 update. The video message works just like a regular voicemail and shows up in the missed call log where it can be pulled up and even saved to the camera roll. The feature only works on iphones released in 2018 or later and that's your news update I do in New York City.