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Amazon unveils first electric seaport trucks amid push to slash emissions

The e-commerce giant said it already has eight of those semi trucks in use at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, where every so-called drayage truck must be zero-emissions by 2035

Amazon to spend $9 bn over next 4 yrs to expand cloud infra in Singapore

AWS also announced a collaboration with the Singapore Government, public sector organisations, and enterprises to help accelerate the adoption of AI

Death toll from heavy rains in Brazil jumps to 29, 60 people missing

The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state jumped to 29 as of Thursday night, with another 60 people missing, according to the state's civil defence agency. The agency had said in its prior report, at noon, that 13 people were dead and 21 people missing, just slightly higher than the toll on Wednesday. Brazil's President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva travelled to the state on Thursday to meet with local authorities and express his solidarity. Everything that is within reach of our government will be done to attend to the needs of the people who are being affected by these rains, he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Operators reported electricity and water cuts across the state, and officials detailed numerous incidents of flooded roads, landslides and collapsed bridges as water levels of rivers and streams rose sharply. Part of the structure of a hydroelectric dam gave way on Thursday. More than 10,000 people have been forced from their homes, according to

E-commerce majors Amazon, Flipkart flouted antitrust laws: CCI probe

Competition regulator to soon share report with firms

Great Summer Sale to be the biggest ever this year: Amazon India exec

Premium and 5G smartphone sales are expected to drive growth

Amazon beats estimates; AI boosts cloud growth, revenue forecast lags

Shares of the Seattle-based e-commerce and tech company climbed less than 2 per cent in extended trade after its current-quarter revenue forecast came in below expectations

Amazon, Flipkart sale kicks off from May 2: Know deals, offers, and more

While Flipkart has kicked off early bird offers a day in advance, Amazon India is set to kick off sale offers for its prime members from 12 am to 12 pm on May 2

Fuelled by AI, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet post better-than-expected sales

Many big customers have started spending again on cloud computing after pausing last year to cut costs, executives and analysts said

Amazon India's eighth edition of 'Prime Day' event coming up in July

The e-commerce firm stated Prime Day 2023 was the biggest ever Prime Day in India as 14 per cent more Prime members shopped hundreds of thousands of deals compared to Prime Day 2022

Amazon's secret Project Curiosity used to gather intel on rivals for years

E-commerce giant Amazon used a company called Big River to gather intel on competitors, especially targeting Walmart, which back Flipkart in India

Google fires 28 employees protesting against $1.2 bn Israeli contract

Google told the affected employees that it's keeping this matter as confidential as possible, only disclosing information on a need to know basis

Amazon to push cashierless shopping tech into more third-party stores

The company refuted a report by tech site The Information this month that the technology relies on human reviewers in India to watch customers as they shop

Generative AI boom will be built on AWS, says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

Jassy has focused the company's investments on a few big initiatives such as building data centers to help fuel the artificial intelligence boom

Amazon Web Services owes $525 mn in cloud-storage patent fight: US jury

Chicago-based Kove sued Amazon in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 2018

Apple targets new Miami office space following Amazon and Microsoft

The company already has a smaller office in the vicinity, which has focused mostly on Latin America as well as the advertising business, including selling ad slots in the App Store

Amazon's 'just walk out' checkout tech was powered by 1,000 Indian workers

As many as 1,000 workers in India were required to review what the customers picked up, and ultimately walked out with from Amazon's Just Walk Out-enabled stores

Jeff Bezos buys third mansion for $90 mn in Florida's 'Billionaire Bunker'

This is the Amazon founder's third real estate purchase in the 'world's most exclusive municipality'

Amazon web services slashes hundreds of jobs as part of cost-cutting drive

Sales growth at AWS, the largest seller of rented computing power and data storage, slowed to a record low last year as corporate customers cut spending and delayed technology modernization projects

UP extremely important, one of fastest-growing markets for Amazon: Srikanth

Terming Uttar Pradesh as an "extremely important" and "one of the fastest-growing markets" for Amazon.in, a senior company official said 2023 witnessed healthy double digit growth, and that momentum has continued this year, too. "In Uttar Pradesh, we are delivering across all districts and all serviceable pin codes. In 2023, we saw more than 25 per cent growth year-on-year, and that momentum has continued in 2024 as well," K N Srikanth, Director, Home, Kitchen and Outdoors, Amazon India, told PTI. "In the first three months (of 2024), we have seen more than 25 per cent growth year-on-year on a large base. So it's a very important and large market for us," he said. "Lakhs of our customers, and more than 1.6 lakh sellers are based out of Uttar Pradesh," K N Srikanth, who was in Lucknow on Tuesday to attend a daylong event to "celebrate the success of Amazon in the region", said. "Hence you will also see that we have large fulfilment centres here to store products from sellers, and sh

Amazon offers free credits for startups to use AI models like Anthropic

Amazon said it has offered over $6 billion in credits to startups in the past decade