San Francisco : US online retail giant Amazon is leading a $700-million funding round for electric truck startup Rivian Automotive, Rivian has said. The latest funds will help produce its first all-electric vehicles — the R1T pickup truck and the ...
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By Gokul Bhagabati, Bengaluru : With a wide range of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools at its disposal, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Cloud arm of online retail giant Amazon, is busy helping its customers in India, ...
Read More »France to slap Apple, Google with new digital tax in 2019
San Francisco : With efforts to reform a European Union tax law not bringing the desired results, France is going to introduce from January 1, 2019 a digital tax on technology giants such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, the ...
Read More »AWS logs significant growth in India: Amazon CTO
By Nishant Arora, Las Vegas : For the first time since launching its Mumbai region services two years back, retail giant Amazon’s Cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) has seen a 70 per cent increase in the accounts of Indian ...
Read More »Amazon invests $10mn to support US recycling infrastructure
San Francisco : Amazon on Tuesday announced a new investment of $10 million in Closed Loop Fund (CLF) to support recycling infrastructure in the US aimed at cutting the amount of waste treated at landfills. Amazon said its investment will ...
Read More »Amazon bringing 3,000 more jobs to Canada
By Barry Ellsworth, Trenton, Canada: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Amazon jointly announced Monday that the online retailing giant will add 3,000 employees to its Vancouver operation. In addition, Amazon will build a new office tower that is expected ...
Read More »Amazon to cease selling Google Nest’s smart home devices: Report
San Francisco : Online retailer Amazon has decided not to sell any of the new products from Google’s smart home division Nest, once its current stock runs out, the media reported. Amazon, in a conference call late last year, told ...
Read More »Jeff Bezos donates $33 million for DACA scholarships
By Barry Eitel, San Francisco: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Friday that he and his wife MacKenzie are donating $33 million to fund college scholarships for undocumented immigrants. Bezos said the grant will allow some 1,000 undocumented high school students ...
Read More »Online retail giant Amazon enters Australian market
Canberra : Online US retail giant Amazon has officially launched operations in Australia on Tuesday, with the brand looking to make an impact in the lead up to the busy Christmas period. Their 24,000-square-meter warehouse in the outskirts of Melbourne ...
Read More »Apple losing out AI race to Google, Amazon: Report
San Francisco : Essentially a hardware-focused firm, Apple is falling behind in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race with Google and Amazon racing ahead while embracing the open-source and collaborative approach in the emerging field of AI, Fortune reported. According to ...
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