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Amazon Web Services, Tamil Nadu hub join hands for AI startup programme

Programme will enable startups to collaborate with the industry to build public sector-focused solutions using generative AI

Defining success

Amazon@30 has lessons for startup ecosystem

Amazon Prime Day 2024 India: All about amazing deals and discounts

Amazon has declared its 8th edition of Prime Day offering amazing savings on top brands across different categories. It is set to go live on July 20th at 12:00 am to July 20th 11:59 pm

Tens of thousands of small biz gear up to offer Prime Day deals: Amazon

The owners of small firms would offer deals on lakhs of products to customers across various categories such as home and kitchen, fashion and grooming on the e-commerce website

Made to stand for 10 hrs: Amazon India staff alleges inhuman work practices

Workplace exploitation: In a survey conducted by UNI Global Union, as many as 1,838 Amazon employees reported dire working conditions at its facilities in India

Only 21% Amazon workers in India say work environment is safe: Report

Ecommerce firm denies UNI Global Union's survey that claimed company sets difficult targets for warehouse workers and drivers

Microsoft in $22 mn deal to settle cloud complaint, ward off regulators

Microsoft ranks behind market leader Amazon in the multibillion-dollar cloud computing sector but ahead of Alphabet's Google

World wars in Retailville

As Amazon turns 30, Clash is a timely book that explores the fierce rivalry between retail giants Amazon and Walmart, and examines their impact on the retail landscape and customers

Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K review: A near-perfect streaming device on budget

The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K 2024 is competitively priced at Rs 5,999, making high-quality streaming accessible to a broad audience without compromising on the essentials

Bezos to sell Amazon shares worth about $5 bn after stock hits record high

After the sale plan, Bezos would own about 912 million Amazon shares, or 8.8 per cent of the outstanding stock

Amazon India announces annual Prime Day sales event on July 20-21

New products by more than 450 brands will be launched, says e-commerce company

Amazon partners with Microsoft to bring Xbox cloud gaming to Fire TV sticks

Apart from Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, Fire TV Stick 4K users will need a compatible Bluetooth gaming controller to playing games on their TVs using the cloud gaming service from Microsoft

Amazon hits $2 trillion valuation milestone on AI fervor, rate cut bets

The e-commerce giant becomes the fifth company to achieve the $2 trillion valuation milestone

Amazon mulls monthly subscription for conversation AI-powered Alexa service

The paid version of Amazon's AI-powered Alexa could perform more intricate tasks such as composing a brief email, sending it and ordering dinner for delivery from Uber Eats, all from a single prompt

Amazon, Flipkart target small towns to expand personal care business

India's beauty and personal care market, which saw a fourfold increase from 2006 to 2022, is expected to multiply fivefold over the next 15 years

Bengaluru couple orders Xbox from Amazon, find cobra in the package. WATCH

The snake, trapped in black duct tape marked with Amazon Prime, was seen wriggling and attempting to escape

California fines Amazon nearly $6 mn for illegal work quotas at warehouses

California has fined Amazon a total of USD 5.9 million, alleging the e-commerce giant worked warehouse employees so hard that it put their safety at risk, officials said. The two citations issued in May by the California Labor Commissioner's Office said Amazon.com Services LLC ran afoul of the state's Warehouse Quota Law at facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, east of Los Angeles. The law, which took effect in 2022, "requires warehouse employers to provide employees written notice of any quotas they must follow, including the number of tasks they need to perform per hour and any discipline that could come" from not meeting the requirements, the labour commissioner's office said in a statement. Amazon was fined USD 1.2 million at a warehouse in Redlands and USD 4.7 million at another in nearby Moreno Valley. The company said Tuesday that it disagrees with the allegations and has appealed the citations. "The truth is, we don't have fixed quotas. At Amazon, individual

Amazon expands grocery service to over 130 cities as competition increases

The firm is expanding rapidly amid increasing competition in the sector, where it is competing with players like Flipkart, Reliance's JioMart, Tata Digital-owned BigBasket, and others

Amazon Pharmacy expands eligibility for subscription to Medicare patients

Amazon has worked to lure customers away from more established pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens since launching its pharmacy unit in 2020

AI in India gets a boost as Microsoft, Amazon invest billions in data infra

Microsoft has pledged $3.7 bn to build data centres in Telangana, while Amazon plans to invest $12.7 bn in Cloud infrastructure in India