Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson will travel to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic’s test flight on 11 July, Branson’s space tourism firm said on Thursday, beating fellow aspiring billionaire astronaut Jeff Bezos.
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The biggest challenge for Amazon.com’s next boss, Andy Jassy, may come from the business he knows best: cloud computing services.
Even as Microsoft hovers around a $2-trillion valuation, it may avoid being included in a US antitrust bills aimed at big technology companies.
The Nasdaq ended at a record high on Tuesday, lifted by Amazon, Microsoft and other top-shelf tech companies as investors shifted their focus to growth stocks.
Microsoft took its place in the history books as just the second US public company to reach a $2-trillion market value, buoyed by bets its dominance in cloud computing and enterprise software.
Amazon.com’s planned new Africa headquarters in Cape Town is to draw demonstrations on Wednesday as indigenous people protest its construction on a heritage site.
A seat on a spaceship ride with billionaire Jeff Bezos went for R385-million during a live auction on Saturday, concluding the month-long bidding process.
A year-long inquiry into voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri has led to among more than 200 companies expressing concerns of potential anticompetitive practices, EU antitrust regulators said.
An outage at Fastly, a cloud-based content platform that serves many leading international websites, sent large chunks of the Web offline on Tuesday.
Jeff Bezos will go to space next month when his company, Blue Origin, launches its first passenger-carrying mission.