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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has scrapped plans to launch an online streaming service bundling popular U.S. broadcast and cable networks because it believes it cannot make enough money on such a service, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The world’s largest online retailer has also been unable to convince key broadcast […]
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Amazon Inc said on Friday that it will a open second corporate office in Vancouver, doubling its staff in the western Canadian city by early 2020 as it looks to tap into a burgeoning local tech workforce. The Seattle-based company said the Vancouver expansion has been in the works for some time […]
News highlights for 2 November 2017 Regulator says Slim can start charging rivals MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s telecommunications regulator said on Thursday that billionaire Carlos Slim’s America Movil could start charging local rivals for mobile calls to its network for the first time since a 2014 sector reform. Read more… Telefonica publishes the IoT […]
Opportunities to break in are fast disappearing. Google seems to be closing on in launching a Google Home based product with a touchscreen which indicates that Google’s understanding of the smart home user experience is improving quickly. This is bad news for others like Essential (see here) that are looking to compete in this space as […]
There is a growing consensus that it will be Amazon, not Apple, that will be the first company on earth to be valued at over $1 trillion. There is also a view out there that Amazon is pulling away from the other Big Three and not only beginning to eat their lunch, but is eyeing […]
Amazon looks to be the main beneficiary of the co-operation between Amazon and Microsoft which will see Alexa offer access to Cortana and vice-a-versa. Amazon and Microsoft are working on a co-operation where Windows 10 users will be able to get Cortana to open Alexa and perform its range of functions. Users of Amazon Echo products […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Amazon was told on Wednesday to pay about 250 million euros ($295 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg, the latest U.S. tech company to be caught up in a European Union crackdown on unfair tax deals. The fine was much lower than some sources close to the case had expected and is […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internet giants, including Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, are moving to compromise on several major policy issues as they adjust to an abrupt shift in the political winds in Washington. Just last week, the U.S. Senate took a big step toward advancing legislation that would partially strip away the internet industry’s bedrock legal […]
Amazon increases its aggressive land grab. Not content to sit on 70% market share, Amazon is aggressively compensating for the lack of Alexa on smartphones by effectively giving the devices away and pushing e-commerce as hard as it can. A land grab strategy makes complete sense because the more Amazon can drive Alexa usage, the more […]
News highlights for 17 September 2017 Amazon aims for ‘cat walk to your door’ service LONDON (Reuters) – Online retailer Amazon aims to take the “see now, buy now” model of making clothes seen in catwalk shows quickly available to consumers to a new level, offering one-hour delivery on items shown in a fashion show […]
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