Dec 16, 2019, 10:23 AM By land and by air, Amazon delivery hardware takes on a new look in truck and plane photos Amazon vans zipping around neighborhoods making holiday deliveries aren’t the only relatively new transportation hardware that the tech giant has… Read More
Dec 16, 2019, 9:40 AM Amazon’s Twitch embroiled in Russian legal dispute over English Premier League streams Amazon is fielding a major lawsuit from Russian internet giant Rambler Group, which claims Twitch has violated its rights to… Read More
Dec 14, 2019, 10:35 AM What the Ring camera hacks say about security, privacy and technology The hacking of multiple Ring cameras this week brought the sometimes abstract world of tech security and privacy into stark relief,… Read More
Dec 13, 2019, 10:31 AM Amazon is delivering half of its own packages, reducing reliance on third-parties, analysts find Amazon is coming for couriers. The Seattle tech giant is now delivering 50 percent of packages itself, according to Morgan… Read More
Dec 13, 2019, 5:16 AM Despite Amazon’s legal challenge, Microsoft reportedly moving forward with JEDI hiring push Microsoft’s push to recruit people to work on the JEDI project to build cloud infrastructure for the U.S. Department of… Read More
Dec 12, 2019, 3:09 PM Tech industry’s password problems come home to roost with Ring security camera hacks After a series of high-profile hacks involving in-home Ring security cameras, some people are finding that devices they bought to… Read More
Dec 12, 2019, 11:15 AM Be cool, Alexa … actor Samuel L. Jackson now voices the weather and more for Amazon “I’m in the cloud, baby!” Only Samuel L. Jackson, the longtime Hollywood star with a distinct voice and vocabulary, could… Read More
Dec 12, 2019, 9:55 AM Hackers infiltrate Ring cameras in Florida and Tennessee and harass children Hackers accessed Ring security cameras in Florida and Tennessee over the last few days and communicated with children, raising questions… Read More
Dec 11, 2019, 10:26 AM New employer satisfaction data hints at techlash’s impact and Microsoft’s exception It’s been a tough year for tech, and the barrage of negative headlines dogging the industry may be hitting companies… Read More
Dec 10, 2019, 8:22 AM Company reportedly exposed 752,000 birth certificate applications stored on Amazon Web Services A company that lets users get copies of their birth and death certificates exposed more than 752,000 application documents it… Read More
Dec 9, 2019, 9:37 AM Amazon accuses Trump of using Pentagon cloud contract for ‘his own personal and political ends’ A newly unsealed court document reveals more details about Amazon’s strategy to get the Defense Department to overturn its award… Read More
Dec 9, 2019, 7:40 AM ‘Do you want a strong national defense or don’t you?’ Bezos defends big tech’s government work Big tech should continue to play a key role in national defense, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said, painting the work… Read More
Dec 7, 2019, 10:35 AM Cloud Wars: Why Amazon is escalating its battle against Microsoft in enterprise tech The leaders of Amazon’s cloud division made a few things clear this week at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference… Read More
Dec 6, 2019, 1:55 PM Amazon touts ‘technical superiority’ over Microsoft as it seeks to reopen JEDI bidding in newly unsealed court filing Amazon is asking a federal judge to block the Defense Department from enlisting Microsoft for a contentious and lucrative cloud… Read More
Dec 6, 2019, 7:53 AM Amazon experiencing shipping delays amid busy holiday season and shift to one-day delivery Amazon is experiencing some shipping delays as the busy holiday season continues to heat up. As first reported by Recode,… Read More
Dec 5, 2019, 4:52 PM Amazon expands Bezos’ elite ‘S-team,’ adding 6 execs from emerging branches of the company Amazon’s executive suite, nicknamed the “S-team,” is adding six new members as the company doubles down on emerging fields such… Read More
Dec 5, 2019, 1:06 PM NFL partners with Amazon Web Services to improve player safety and ‘shape the future of football’ The National Football League is turning to Amazon’s cloud technologies as it looks to improve the safety of its players.… Read More
Dec 5, 2019, 8:12 AM AWS antitrust? How Amazon’s cloud unit would defend against an expanded FTC inquiry LAS VEGAS — Kicking off the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference earlier this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy offered an… Read More
Dec 4, 2019, 10:23 AM The buzz at AWS re:Invent: What tech leaders are talking about at Amazon’s big cloud confab LAS VEGAS — S. “Soma” Somasegar has a unique perspective on Amazon Web Services, as the former leader of Microsoft’s… Read More
Dec 4, 2019, 5:20 AM Amazon introduces portable Echo smart speaker in India with 11 hours of battery life Amazon added a new portable Echo device to its lineup of smart speakers, but for now it is only available… Read More
Dec 3, 2019, 10:26 AM Amazon cloud boss targets Microsoft’s core business, eyes $3.7 trillion enterprise IT market LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy put the company’s neighboring tech giant directly in his sights here… Read More
Dec 3, 2019, 7:16 AM Amazon doubles truck fleet to 20,000 to boost shipping capacity amid booming holiday sales A record number of Amazon-branded trucks are driving up and down freeways across the U.S. this holiday season, the latest… Read More
Dec 2, 2019, 10:11 AM What ’60 Minutes’ didn’t say about Amazon and Seattle’s homelessness crisis The tent cities that spring up in the shadows of some of the world’s wealthiest tech companies landed on “60… Read More
Dec 2, 2019, 8:54 AM Amazon reportedly experimenting with temporary warehouse space to speed up holiday deliveries As Amazon enters its first holiday season under the shifting shipping standard of one-day delivery, the tech giant is looking… Read More
Dec 2, 2019, 7:31 AM Amazon unveils musical keyboard that uses AI to compose surprisingly good original songs Amazon Web Services likes to spice things up at its annual AWS re:Invent conference with unexpected hardware announcements, with past… Read More
Dec 2, 2019, 6:30 AM What’s at stake for Amazon’s $36B cloud business at its big AWS re:Invent conference this week Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its… Read More
Nov 29, 2019, 7:41 AM Holiday e-commerce spending already hitting records as Amazon and others gear up for peak shopping season In between parades, football games and huge meals, people turned to their phones in record numbers to shop holiday deals… Read More
Nov 28, 2019, 7:16 AM We’ve been wearing Amazon’s Allbirds lookalikes: Here’s how they compare to the real thing Amazon’s 206 Collective Men’s Galen Wool Blend Sneakers look like Allbirds Wool Runners, for less than half the price. Comparing… Read More
Nov 27, 2019, 9:32 PM Amazon to double seasonal hiring to record 200k workers as business continues to boom Amazon plans to hire 200,000 seasonal workers this year, twice as many as last year, suggesting that it expects a… Read More
Nov 27, 2019, 7:00 AM Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins Seattle office for Sweden’s Sinch; Glossier hires CTO from Amazon — Swedish cloud communications platform Sinch named Vikram Khandpur, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, as chief product officer. He’ll be based… Read More
