Microsoft’s push into the cloud forged ahead last quarter, with demand for online versions of Office productivity software and the Azure Web services business bolstering sales and earnings. Profit in the period that
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The fortune of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos surged by as much as $6.6bn in extended trading on Thursday after the retailer reported third quarter results that topped Wall Street estimates. If the gains hold through Friday, Bezos probably
Banks around the world have spent the past few years preparing for competition from small, nimble technology start-ups. It turns out the real threat may be Jeff Bezos. Financial institutions have parried the threat from fintech firms by
Amazon.com on Wednesday introduced a waterproof Kindle e-reader long-awaited by enthusiasts, the latest in a string of consumer devices from the online retail giant this year. The device, an updated version
Amazon is a company that gets the benefit of the doubt. A lot. No technology company is as ambitious or as feared. Yet no one really knows Amazon’s business strategy, and that’s by design. Most investors are happy for Amazon
Without question, this has been a peak year for Amazon.com paranoia. The company seems to be everywhere, eager to crush…
My thoughts tend to go to dark places these days. And so when I watched Google on Wednesday trot out one after another of its homegrown computing devices for every task and every nook of our homes, I went straight to dystopia
In case it wasn’t obvious before Wednesday, Amazon.com has leapfrogged the smartphone to go after the next era of computing. The company never could have done this if it hadn’t been steamrolled in smartphones first. The way
Amazon.com is looking to an ageing technology to continue its push to digitise and connect the home: the landline phone. At an event in Seattle in the US on Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a $35 device that plugs into existing
Amazon.com has debuted a new high-end version of its Echo speaker with a smart-home hub system built in, stepping up a fight with Google and Apple for digital control of people’s homes. The upgraded device, called the Echo Plus