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The impending online shopping split: buy boutique or buy Amazon
It’s been a rough couple of months for Amazon competitors. First Canada’s Shop.ca declares bankruptcy and essentially has a fire sale, then Jet.com, which accumulated big funding and big hype...
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Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery
Delivery by drone or self-driving trucks may not be here any time soon for Amazon.com. But the e-commerce juggernaut plans to launch its first ever branded cargo plane, the Amazon One, at Seattle’s...
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Amazon said to plan cut-rate streaming music for Echo devices
Amazon wants to do what it does best, selling subscriptions with a competition-beating value prop. This time around, it hopes to provide a subscription music streaming service for $4 or $5 per month,...
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Amazon releases auto buying research tool
Shopping for a car? You might want to do your research on Amazon. The ecommerce giant just announced and releasedwww.amazon.com/vehicles that’s as impressive as it is comprehensive. It’s one of the...
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SpaceNet satellite imagery repository launched by DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works...
A consortium of companies, including DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA, today launched SpaceNet, an open-data initiative aimed at improving image analysis tools. The data are being hosted by...
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Sonos partners with Amazon, Spotify for enhanced music control
Wireless speaker system maker Sonos announced two software partnerships today with Spotify and Amazon. The Spotify integration allows users to control their Sonos speakers via the Spotify app,...
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After boosting FedEx, is Amazon about to pull an AWS in shipping?
Amazon’s growing shipping operation is profiled at length in a new Bloomberg feature, and the article paints a picture of the e-commerce giant putting together the pieces to build one of the largest...
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Daimler begins testing Smart car trunk delivery service with DHL
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Dooze is an alarm clock with consequences
I’m not a morning person and the snooze button on my alarm clock regularly gets a workout. If you suffer from the same issue (and own an Amazon Echo or similar Alex-enabled device), then maybe Dooze is...
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The Ripple Rug: You know, for cats
Of all the products I’ve seen this year none are more worthy of our time and attention than the Ripple Rug. Created by Fred and Natasha Ruckel, the Ripple Rug is a rug with holes and lumps in it. Your...
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Movie pirate? Don’t trust Plex Cloud
Plex is a pirate’s best friend. It’s by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let’s be honest, its big...
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Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft come together to create historic...
The world’s largest technology companies hold the keys to some of the largest databases on our planet. Much like goods and coins before it, data is becoming an important currency for the modern world....
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Amazon to spend $2.5M on university competition to build “socialbot”
If you need an Uber, Amazon Alexa has your back. Unfortunately if what you need is a conversation buddy, the personal assistant isn’t quite up to the task. In an effort to bolster Alexa’s social...
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Print and ebook revenue down as Amazon slashes prices
It’s good news and bad news for the publishing industry. The good news is that print revenue was up 3.4 percent in April, primarily in trade paperbacks, with some solid grown in young adult print and...
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AWS launches region in Ohio
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing service today announced launched a region in Ohio. The aptly-named “US East (Ohio) Region” brings Amazon’s total region count to 14. The region will feature three separate...
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Wink 2 Hub Review: A smart home hub built for the future
If the Amazon Echo is the face of home automation, a smart home hub is the brains. It sits silently, stuffed under a couch or sat on a bookshelf, connecting all the smart devices around a person’s...
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Jeff Bezos, Mayo Clinic back anti-aging startup Unity Biotechnology for $116...
Every once in a while someone in Silicon Valley brings up the possibility of living forever, or at least a really long time, but first we’re going to need to figure out a way to enjoy all those extra...
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AWS Snowball Edge offers 100TB of storage and compute functionality
Amazon’s popular Snowball storage container got a major update today at the company’s re:invent conference. Though largely overshadowed by the new batshit crazy AWS Snowmobile, the aforementioned...
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Amazon has a shiny new startup accelerator to advance conversational AI
Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to evangelize their brands and get developers engaged with APIs and other open source efforts. Today, Amazon joined the crowd by...
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AWS Batch simplifies batch computing in the cloud
Amazon’s new AWS Batch allows engineers to execute a series of jobs automatically, in the cloud. The tool lets you run apps and container images on whatever EC2 instances are required to accomplish a...
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