Amazon Pay acquires app aggregator platform Tapzo
Amazon has acquired Indian app company Tapzo in a deal to bolster its digital payments offering.
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Amazon loosens tight grip on smart speaker market
New estimates from Strategy Analytics have Amazon maintaining its lead in the smart speaker market, but it’s starting to erode as more mainstream brands hit the market.
Apple makes minor dent in smart speaker segment after $1 trillion valuation
While Apple CEO Tim Cook was declaring the company is now the first to exceed the mystical $1 trillion market valuation, new research suggested its HomePod speakers were nothing more than an also ran.
AWS continues to fuel profits at parent company
Amazon has released the results for the first half of 2018, with cloud business unit AWS accounting for just over 61% of the total operating income.
DirecTV users can voice control their set-top boxes with Alexa
DirecTV announced today that users of several models of its set-top boxes will be able to select programs, start and stop play, as well as control recording functions with voice, using Amazon’s AI personal assistant Alexa.
Amazon to open bigger cashier-free shop in Seattle
Etail giant Amazon has confirmed it is to open a second, bigger cashier-free retail outlet in Seattle later this year.
Amazon muscles in on Premier League Football market
Amazon has been announced as the latest rights holder of the English Premier League, as the sports market becomes even more fragmented and expensive for fans to follow.
Alexa privacy brought into question as Echo suffers meltdown
Amazon has continually denied its Echo devices are constantly listening and recording conversations in the home, but after one family had an entire conversation sent as an audio file to a friend, questions are being asked.
Google, Alibaba and Apple erode Amazon’s smart speaker dominance
Research firm Strategy Analytics has published its latest numbers on the global smart speaker market and they reveal rapid growth and diversification.
Amazon censors Signal’s censorship tackling strategy
Amazon has written to Signal threatening to kick the secure messaging app off its CloudFront web service unless it stops anti-censorship practice known as domain-fronting.
Amazon goes big on AI in Boston
Amazon has announced it will be hiring another 2,000 people to expand its Boston Tech Hub, the office where its artificial intelligence work is centred.
Cloud fuels Amazon, Microsoft and Intel, but best is yet to come
The quarterly results from Amazon, Microsoft and Intel show profits are certainly in the cloud, but with 5G just around the corner this might only be the start of a cloud renaissance.
Amazon said to be developing a domestic robot
Not content with persuading us to install a listening device in our homes, Amazon is reportedly working on something that will follow you around your house.
Amazon draws back curtain to unveil monstrous content machine
It has been one of the best kept secrets in the tech world, but in a letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed its Prime offering now has more than 100 million subscribers worldwide.
Trump sets Bezos in his sights
Amazon is the latest company to get President Trump’s own brand of condemnation as the Commander-in-Chief takes to Twitter to rant and rave.
Amazon and Google make loads more money
Another quarter has passed for the internet barnstormers and once again we are writing about how much money they have made. This time there is a bit of a twist, investors are disappointed with one of them…
Apple set to finally enter the smart speaker market but does anyone care?
The world’s dominant gadget company will start selling the HomePod in a few weeks but it’s very late to the game.
All systems Go for Amazon bricks-and-mortar consumer IoT move
The opening of an Amazon physical retail store is cruel irony for its competitors and an inflection point for consumer IoT.
Amazon and Google probably lost money on smart speakers but it doesn’t matter
The build up to Christmas saw Google and Amazon both discount their smart speakers, but perhaps we should look at the hardware as nothing more than a expensive PR campaign.
France accuses Amazon of abusing dominant market position
The French are going to war with Amazon over how much influence the eCommerce giant has over market conditions.
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