Tag: amazon
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AWS logs significant growth in India: Amazon CTO
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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 companies, says Amazon Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Werner Vogels. In an interview with IANS, Vogels…
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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 increase the availability of curbside recycling for three million homes in communities across the country,…
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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 to attend college. The students will all be Dreamers, meaning they have Deferred Action for…
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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 will offer 23 consumer categories ranging from books, electronics, clothing, home improvement, kitchen goods, health…