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
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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
People in the US, not just in the European Union, are finally getting worried about tech sector leaders’ market dominance and the political power it confers. Unfortunately, the solutions gaining traction are the kind of anti-monopoly
Moody’s Investor’s Service released a very interesting report on Amazon.com this week. It was distinctly different from the usual Wall Street research, which tends to be glowing about anything related to the company’s
Think billionaires and outer space and three names quickly come to mind: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. It turns out, though, that they have plenty of company. There are 13 others among the world’s 500
Amazon.com has joined Tencent and the main assembler of iPhones in backing Essential Products, the start-up co-founded by Android-creator Andy Rubin that’s getting ready to sell a new smartphone. China’s largest social
Amazon.com has reminded investors that luring shoppers away from stores and dominating the cloud computing industry isn’t cheap. The company on Thursday forecast a potential quarterly loss for the first time in
A surge in Amazon.com shares on Thursday in advance of the online retailer’s earnings report has propelled founder Jeff Bezos past Bill Gates as the world’s richest person. Shares of the online retailer
Amazon.com’s expansion plans, including its agreement to buy Whole Foods Market for US$13.7bn, are raising hackles in Washington – and Wall Street is taking notice. A US lawmaker has called for hearings on the proposed deal to
Erroneous prices of Nasdaq stocks, including some of the world’s biggest technology companies, flooded traders’ screens after the US market shut early on Monday before a holiday. The prices were distributed by third-party