Amazon bragged “cultivating” Southern California city mayor
So it allows it to build large warehouses in residential areas
Amazon bragged it has "cultivated" a Southern California city mayor by donating PPE to the city and taking him and his team on tours in a leaked confidential company document.
Brits make Amazon and Facebook sign data pledge
Can’t sell it to give them an unfair advantage
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has made Facebook and Amazon promise not to sell third-party seller data that gives it an unfair commercial advantage.
Amazon has 181 million European users
First transparency report
In its first store transparency report, Amazon said it has more than 181 million users in the European Union and employs more than 150,000 people directly.
FTC takes on Amazon
A major anti-trust battle
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to file a major antitrust lawsuit accusing Amazon of "using its power to reward online merchants that use its logistics services and punish those who don't."
Google moans to FTC about Microsoft cloud
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Google has formally filed a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission, publicly alleging that Microsoft used its dominant position in enterprise software to push customers toward Vole's cloud services.
US antics divide subsea cable market into East and West
Returning to the cold war
The subsea cable market is in danger of dividing into eastern and western blocs as the US is putting pressure on companies to avoid Chinese ties.
Amazon releases mysterious Snow
You know nothing about Snow
Amazon Web Services has announced a new member of its "Snow" family of on-prem hardware -- but the machine’s specs appear not to be available to eyes outside the US military.
Amazon slow on ChatGPT-style technology
It's not Wonder Woman
Amazon is slow to let its customers test the ChatGPT-style technology it unveiled six weeks ago.
AI will kill off search engines
Gates predicts
Software King of the World Sir William Gates III claims that AI will soon create personal digital agents for humans so that they never have to go to a productivity site or Amazon again.
Amazon wants to invest $12.7 billion in Indian clouds
In time for the monsoon
Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud business in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said.