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Amazon has added 3,700 new sellers a day this year, as independent merchants become an increasingly important part of the retail giant's growth

• Research firm Finbold has found that Amazon is drawing in new sellers at a rapid rate.
• In 2021, the online giant attracted 3,700 new merchants a day.
• As of Sunday, that totalled out to 295,000 new sellers in 2021.
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Amazon is raking in new third-party merchants on its site, to the tune of thousands of new sellers a day.

Research firm Finbold found that the online retail giant is adding 3,700 new sellers on a daily basis in 2021. As of Sunday, that totaled out to 295,000 new sellers in 2021, or 155 new merchants every hour. Finbold estimated that Amazon could attract 1.4 million new sellers by the end of 2021. A total of 26% of those new sellers are in the United States, while 10.1% are located in India.  

No. 7 seed Oregon upsets No. 2 Iowa to advance to men’s NCAA Tournament Sweet 16

INDIANAPOLIS — The Pac 12 continues to steamroll through the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The Big Ten? Not so much. 

Iowa, the No. 2 seed in the West region, became the seventh Big Ten team eliminated from the tournament before the Sweet 16 out of the nine that began in the bracket with a 95-80 loss to No. 7 seed Oregon on Monday.

The only teams remaining from the Big Ten are Maryland, which plays No. 2 seed Alabama later Monday, and No. 1 seed Michigan, which faces LSU in the second round. 

There was no mystery to why Iowa struggled with this particular matchup: It simply could not guard Oregon, a team that utilizes five athletic wings in the 6-foot-6 range who got to the rim with the greatest of ease and either made layups or found wide open shooters on the perimeter. 

The Ducks shot 56 percent for the game, made 11-of-25 from the 3-point line, had 46 points in the paint and only turned it over 11 times. 

Where Were the Cries of "Protect Women's Sports!" When the NCAA Gave Women a Pathetic Weight Room?

Last week, a U.S. Senate Committee held its first hearing on the Equality Act, a bill that would provide LGBTQ+ Americans with broad non-discrimination protections. Throughout the hearing Republican Senators used their time to broadcast a supposed deep support for women’s sports by claiming that allowing high school transgender girls to compete in girls sports would create an opening for high school boys to pose as women to win athletic scholarships.

But later in the week, when inequities at the training facilities at the annual Men’s and Women’s Collegiate Basketball National Championship went viral, these valiant defenders of women’s sport were nowhere to be found.

Senators like Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and John Kennedy, who had all spent their workdays bloviating that the sanctity of women’s sport was threatened by high school transwomen, were noticeably silent. (Well, unless you count Sen. Tom Cotton tweeting about the University of Arkansas’ men’s team’s opening tournament game, which I do not.)

Seemingly, they were unperturbed by the fact that the facilities for men’s teams were vastly superior to the women’s facilities.

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‘Avatar 2’ Actor Jack Champion Signs With CAA

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Jack Champion, who joins Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in the Avatar sequels. Champion plays “Spider” in Avatar 2, which bows on Dec. 16, 2022, and will reprise the role in the next three installments. Avatar recently reclaimed its position as the highest-grossing film of all time, with a cumulative worldwide box of $2.83 billion.

He previously appeared in Avengers: Endgame.

Champion continues to be represented by Industry Entertainment and Chad M. Christopher at Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.

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(Reuters) – Online education provider Coursera Inc is looking to raise as much as about $519 million through an initial public offering in the United States, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.