Amazon’s Echo has made tangible the promise of an artificially intelligent personal assistant in every home. Those who own the voice-activated gadget (known colloquially as Alexa, after its female interlocutor) are prone to
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Amazon.com on Monday unveiled technology that will let shoppers grab groceries without having to scan and pay for them — in one stroke eliminating the checkout line. The company is testing the new system at what
Netflix is making some television shows and movies available for download to watch offline, providing its users a feature that has become a must-have for binge-watchers. Many fans have requested to watch Netflix content without an
Naspers plans to expand in education software as Africa’s biggest company by market value searches for a repeat of the profitable bet it made on China’s Tencent. The owner of Africa’s biggest pay-television
Amazon.com is in talks to acquire Dubai-based online retailer Souq.com for about $1bn (R14,2bn) in a deal that will give the e-commerce giant a footprint in the high-growth Middle East market, according
Amazon.com is preparing to take its video streaming service worldwide in a challenge to Netflix, the world’s largest paid online TV network. Amazon, which currently offers the service in only a handful
Amazon.com is weighing a bid for a stake in Dubai-based online retailer Souq.com as the e-commerce giant seeks to expand in the Middle East, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The stake
Samsung Electronics is corporate royalty in Korea. It’s also a company recognised for its marketing smarts and engineering savvy worldwide, so much so that consulting firm Interbrand ranked it as the world’s seventh most
Google has unleashed its digital assistant for the first time, arriving late to the intensifying race among the largest technology companies to create a more personal and lucrative way for computers to interact with humans. The Google Assistant
The television industry will make a record number of shows in 2017, as streaming services Netflix, Amazon and Hulu propel a swell in production that’s creating an oversupply, veteran Fox executive John Landgraf said