Amazon (AMZN) News – Page 79 of 244

Dec 19, 2018, 10:10 AM

FedEx execs not concerned about Amazon’s growing shipping and delivery ambitions

FedEx doesn’t see Amazon as a major threat, even as the tech giant plows major resources into expanding its shipping… Read More

Dec 19, 2018, 9:49 AM

Washington Post Dot com: Newspaper pushing free Amazon device to lure new digital subscribers

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly stays clear of the day-to-day operations of The Washington Post. But for a better understanding… Read More

Dec 19, 2018, 9:13 AM

Facebook data-sharing partnerships with Amazon, Microsoft and other tech giants at the center of latest privacy scandal

Facebook is in the news again, but not for the reasons it wants to be. The New York Times published… Read More

Dec 19, 2018, 8:20 AM

Amazon is like a small country, and now its employees are exercising their right to protest

Between its corporate offices, fulfillment centers, Whole Foods stores, and other retail operations, Amazon now employs more than 600,000 people… Read More

Dec 18, 2018, 11:46 AM

Longtime Amazon leader Diego Piacentini reportedly departs, latest exec to leave tech giant in 2018

CNBC reported Tuesday that Diego Piacentini, a longtime Amazon executive who took a 2-year hiatus in 2016, will not return… Read More

Dec 18, 2018, 9:36 AM

Amazon employees flex shareholder muscle to push for climate change plan

More than a dozen Amazon employees are using their power as shareholders to pressure their employer to be more thoughtful… Read More

Dec 18, 2018, 12:01 AM

Amazon’s year on the Go: Ninth store opens as customers and company embrace walk-out tech

Amazon has been making a Go of its cashier-less convenience stores for nearly a year, since opening its first location… Read More

Dec 17, 2018, 2:24 PM

Tech concentration in big cities is growing, leaving rural America behind, study finds

The Amazon HQ2 hullaballoo threw two important economic trends into sharp relief over the past year. The first is communities… Read More

Dec 17, 2018, 10:10 AM

Oracle’s latest JEDI cloud contract protest spurs Amazon Web Services to defend itself in federal court

As the Department of Defense meanders along the path to awarding its ten-year $10 billion cloud computing contract next year,… Read More

Dec 17, 2018, 7:15 AM

Amazon reportedly working with big consumer brands to reduce its costs on ‘CRaP’ items

That heavy bottled water? Or those bulky, cheap paper towels? Amazon would prefer that you order them in larger quantities… Read More

Dec 16, 2018, 11:11 AM

Azure vs. AWS for startups: Microsoft’s top marketing exec explains its strategy in the cloud

Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure.… Read More

Dec 14, 2018, 12:23 PM

Amazon adds NBA League Pass to Prime video lineup as tech giant continues sports push

Amazon bolstered its growing library of live sports programming with the addition of NBA League Pass to Prime Video Channels.… Read More

Dec 12, 2018, 3:33 PM

Is Amazon selling facial recognition software to ICE? Exec fields tough questions at NY hearing

An Amazon executive did little to quell suspicion that the company sells its facial recognition software to federal immigration authorities… Read More

Dec 12, 2018, 10:47 AM

NYC Council grills Amazon over HQ2: ‘You’re worth $1 trillion. Why do you need our $3 billion?’

Amazon got a healthy dose of New York brashness Wednesday as city councilmembers grilled company executives and their economic development… Read More

Dec 12, 2018, 10:28 AM

Robotics manufacturing firm Bright Machines expands to Seattle, hires senior Amazon engineering leader

San Francisco-based Bright Machines is coming to Seattle. The maker of software and robotics systems for manufacturing plans to open… Read More

Dec 12, 2018, 9:19 AM

New compact Amazon Go store opens the door for locations in office lobbies, hospitals and more

Amazon showed off the newest location of its cashier-less Amazon Go concept for the first time Wednesday, but this store… Read More

Dec 11, 2018, 1:54 PM

Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services

In what it is calling an experiment, Amazon Web Services shared its near-term road map for features and services built… Read More

Dec 11, 2018, 10:53 AM

Photos and documents reveal Amazon’s future Queens home and how New York lured the company

Talent, real estate, accessibility, and killer views of the Manhattan skyline. Those are just some of the selling points New… Read More

Dec 10, 2018, 1:24 PM

Amid reports of abandoned projects, Amazon says it’s still ‘excited’ about physical bookstores

Amazon Books was the tech giant’s first take on brick-and-mortar retail, starting in Seattle in 2015 and setting off a… Read More

Dec 10, 2018, 8:36 AM

Amazon reportedly taking action against global staff over leaked or sold third-party seller data

The alleged leaking or selling of inside information about Amazon third-party merchants by Amazon’s own employees is now said to… Read More

Dec 9, 2018, 1:03 PM

‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Alexa.’ Tech and religious leaders ponder the future of AI together

Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God —… Read More

Dec 7, 2018, 9:57 AM

Planning documents give 1st look at Amazon’s Nashville ‘Operations Center of Excellence’ project

Amazon’s plans for a “Operations Center of Excellence” in Nashville are starting to take shape. New plans submitted to Nashville’s… Read More

Dec 6, 2018, 3:07 PM

Seattle tech scene takes center stage as Microsoft and Amazon become most-valuable companies

Silicon Valley is thought of as the technology capital of the U.S., but it is the Seattle area that now… Read More

Dec 6, 2018, 9:33 AM

New York public radio station won’t be calling Amazon’s new home ‘HQ2’

When news broke that Amazon would split its immensely hyped second headquarters between two cities, journalists covering the year-long search… Read More

Dec 6, 2018, 9:02 AM

Amazon is crowdsourcing Alexa’s ability to answer questions, says safeguards will keep out offensive content

Amazon is enlisting customers to help make its digital brain Alexa better at answering questions. The tech giant today unveiled… Read More

Dec 6, 2018, 7:00 AM

Amazon X-Ray lets viewers take a deeper dive into shows, as 2018’s most popular are revealed

Some 29 stories above the streets of Seattle, in a faux living room with a picture-perfect view of the Space… Read More

Dec 5, 2018, 2:57 PM

Microsoft AI exec joins real estate tech company Compass to lead engineering efforts

Tech companies poach talent from each other all the time, but it’s not every day that you see a tech… Read More

Dec 5, 2018, 11:35 AM

Taps for Amazon Tap? Groundbreaking portable Alexa speaker disappears from Amazon

Amazon has apparently — and quietly — silenced its Amazon Tap smart speaker. The portable Alexa device is not being… Read More

Dec 5, 2018, 9:31 AM

Trump admin’s proposed USPS package hike could push Amazon to bolster private shipping business

President Donald Trump’s mission to get the United States Postal Service to extract better deals from retailers like Amazon got a… Read More

Dec 5, 2018, 6:00 AM

Amazon Prime Video streaming service coming to Comcast X1 set-top boxes nationwide

Amazon and Comcast are teaming up to bring the tech giant’s video streaming service into the Xfinity cable universe. Amazon… Read More