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Amazon to shut down cloud storage service ‘Drive’ in 2023
San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon has announced that its “Drive” cloud storage service is shutting down at the end of 2023. The service launched in March 2011 as a “secure cloud storage…
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AWS now has $79 bn annual sales run rate as top Cloud provider
New Delhi: Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Cloud arm of Amazon, now represent an annualised sales run rate of nearly $79 billion that has made it the leading Cloud provider once again.…
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Amazon hikes Prime subscription in UK, Europe by up to 43%
London: Amazon is set to raise its Prime subscription prices by up to a whopping 43 per cent in the UK and Europe from September this year — first such increase in…
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Amazon to allow developers to create Alexa routines for users
San Francisco: At Alexa Live 2022, Amazon has announced new features for skill developers and device makers, including tools that will allow developers to create Alexa routines and suggest them to users.…
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Amazon, FB, Google suppress competition, favour their products: US govt panel
Washington: New internal documents released by the US House Judiciary Committee have revealed how Amazon, Facebook and Google favoured their own products and abused their dominance to suppress competition from their rivals.…
- Business
Amazon sees $12 bn worth sales on Prime Day globally
San Francisco: Amazon saw sales worth at least $12 billion (according to third-party estimates) during its Prime Day event in the US and 15 more countries on July 12-13. It was the…
- Technology
Amazon agrees to address anti-trust concerns to avoid EU fines
London: Amazon has agreed to address competition concerns over its use of non-public marketplace seller data in Europe along with a possible bias in granting sellers access to its ‘Buy Box’ and…
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Amazon, Uber offer ride upgrades for Prime members in India
New Delhi: Extending its collaboration, tech giant Amazon and ride-hailing platform Uber on Wednesday announced complimentary ride upgrades to UberPremier at the price of UberGo for 3 trips per month for Prime…
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New Amazon shopping cart lets users scan & pay to skip checkout lines
San Francisco: Amazon on Tuesday unveiled an updated smart Dash Cart — a shopping cart that helps users scan and pay for their purchases and skip the checkout line. In September 2020,…
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CEO of 19 firms charged with selling fake Cisco devices worth $1 bn
Washington: A US court has charged a man that ran 19 companies and at least 15 Amazon storefronts, 10 eBay storefronts and multiple other entities that sold fraudulent and counterfeit Cisco networking…
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Amazon forced to make it easier to cancel Prime subscriptions in Europe
London: The European Commission has forced Amazon to simplify the process of canceling Prime membership for customers in the region. The platform will enable European consumers to unsubscribe from Amazon Prime with…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Google Play, Amazon gift card frauds on the rise
Hyderabad: Fraudsters are using innovative methods to cheat the public. In the latest, the fraudsters are luring victims to purchase Google Play or Amazon Gift Cards. The Hyderabad police arrested two persons…
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Amazon Alexa to soon read stories in your grandma’s voice
Las Vegas: Amazon is working on a new Alexa feature that will let the virtual assistant mimic the voice of your family member and then speak or read your favourite bedtime stories…
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Amazon unveils its 1st fully autonomous mobile robot
New Delhi: Amazon on Wednesday unveiled its first fully autonomous mobile robot called Proteus that autonomously moves through facilities using advanced safety, perception and navigation technology developed by the company. The robot…
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Ex-AWS engineer convicted of hacking data of 100 mn customers
San Francisco: A former female engineer of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Cloud arm of commerce giant Amazon, has been found guilty of hacking into more than 100 million customers’ cloud storage…
