You have to wonder if – finally – the fortunes of three of the four (maybe five) digital giants are beginning to properly suffer and whether scrutiny from regulators is beginning to bite. Facebook seems Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Big companies in the United States from Amazon to Toyota Motor Corp and Alcoa are working to counter the effect of the Trump administration’s trade policies and to head off new Read more…
(Reuters) – Amazon said on Tuesday that it has partnered with Marriott International to help increase guest access to amenities with Alexa, through its voice-controlled device Echo, in an attempt to expand its presence in Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores, in a nascent challenge to Amazon’s automated grocery shop, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Redmond, Read more…
(Reuters) – Microsoft said on Monday it would buy privately held coding website GitHub for $7.5 billion in an all-stock deal to beef up its cloud computing business and challenge market leader Amazon. The deal Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Amazon.com said on Thursday it will force Australians to use its Australian website instead of its much larger US site to avoid a new sales tax, setting the stage for a showdown Read more…
BENGALURU/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Amazon.com has made a formal offer to buy a 60% stake in Indian online retailer Flipkart, CNBC-TV18 reported on Wednesday, threatening to complicate Walmart’s bid to buy a majority stake in the Read more…
As recently as late last year it was considered risky to even think that digital behemoths could be under any real threat. Amazon, the largest of them all (bigger than Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Nordstrom, Read more…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com shares fell almost 5% on Wednesday, wiping more than $30 billion off its market value, after news website Axios reported that US President Donald Trump is obsessed with the world’s largest Read more…
(Reuters) – Amazon.com’s top television shows drew more than 5 million people worldwide to its Prime shopping club by early 2017, according to company documents, revealing for the first time how the retailer’s bet on Read more…
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