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amazon has his first live daily show and it's kind of like the Home Shopping Network I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update Amazon has a brand-new 30-minute live daily show and it's just to talk about fashion things that you can buy on Amazon it's as if they mix the Home Shopping Network with YouTube makeup tutorials and are hosting it with hip young quasi famous ish people it's called style code live and it streams on amazon.com at 9 p.m. Eastern 6:00 Pacific Monday through Friday it's hosted by Lindsey Rodriguez who has been on MTV's Total Request Live and there's rachel smith a correspondent at Good Morning America and frankie grande a Broadway performer who was on Big Brother and is also the big brother to singer ariana grande and these three will tell you about hot style trends with celebrity guests and you'll see links to buy the stuff that's featured Amazon had made some pushes before into selling apparel with the Amazon fashion page and this is another way to get a younger generation to think about buying clothes and makeup from Amazon and maybe next will be shopping on Amazon inside virtual reality because Amazon is looking to hire a senior software development manager for virtual reality that's according to a new job posting spotted on the site glass door this person will lead a team to build quote the virtual reality experience with an Amazon video and in other new ways to spend your money Apple pay has expanded mobile payments to mobile gas stations well I should say Exxon Mobil the new Exxon Mobil speed pass plus app lets you pay for gas with your phone but you do not have to tap the phone to anything on the pump you don't even need to get out of your car to pay you just need to have location turned on with GPS the app tells which station you're at and then you just tell it what pump number you're at like pump number 8 and use your fingerprint to approve the transaction then the pump is unlocked and you have 45 seconds to get out and start filling up this launched Tuesday at six thousand Exxon and Mobil stations across the US and it's going to be at all locations by the end of the year mobile payments are slowly expanding across the globe just this week square became available in Australia and square is that little card reader that you can put on a phone or tablet to make a payment it's pretty popular with small business owners Australia is only the fourth country to get square following the US Canada and Japan that's it for this tech news update you can head to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey