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Amazon to distribute its original movies, TV shows on other sites

Amazon's move follows the company's $8.5 billion acquisition last year of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. film studio, home of James Bond and other franchises

Amazon plans to make Alexa more interactive with ChatGPT like features

According to the Mashable website, Amazon is developing its voice assistant device to be bigger and better

Amazon, Samara Capital to shed 20% stake in More Retail before IPO

The Amazon-Samara combine has approached family offices and domestic capital investors for the deal, sources said

Google, Amazon lobbyists helped US shape new Indo-Pacific trade framework

Officials with the US Trade Representative invited Amazon and Google lobbyists early last year to meet personally with Sarah Bianchi, the deputy trade representative

Amazon to Walmart: Workers' well-being tops agenda at annual company meet

Shareholders and companies have reached agreements on about a third of the requests. Most of the rest will go to a vote

Amazon building more 'generalised & capable' AI model to power Alexa: CEO

In AWS, the company has 25-plus machine learning services "where we have the broadest machine learning functionality and customer base by a fair bit"

Amazon falls after warning of slowdown in cloud computing business growth

AWS revenue rose 16% to $21.4 billion in the first quarter, the weakest growth rate since Amazon began breaking out the unit's sales

First time since 2014, Amazon omits India business from earnings call

The change is particularly notable given the high rate of growth of the e-commerce industry in South Asia

Amazon lays off employees in Cloud computing, HR units in fresh wave

The layoffs are part of the previously announced job cuts that would affect 9,000 employees. In the first job cut round, Amazon slashed approximately 18,000 roles

Fire TV Cube (3rd Gen): Unboxing Amazon Alexa-powered streaming device

The third generation Fire TV Cube is Amazon’s most powerful media streaming device. Powered by an octa-core (4x2.0 GHz + 4x2.2GHz), the device is said to be 20 per cent more powerful than the previous

Amazon shuts down health-focused Halo division, lays off employees

For employees who are impacted by this decision, Amazon is providing packages that include a separation payment, transitional health insurance benefits, and external job placement support

Top 25 tech firms' valuation grows $2.4 trillion in 2023, shows report

Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google (FAAMG) stocks contribute more than 60 per cent of the tech stocks with $7.7 trillion

Amazon layoffs 2023: Employees loose jobs in AWS Cloud Division

Amazon Web Services personnel in the US, Canada and Costa Rica whose jobs were being eliminated were notified early Wednesday, the unit's chief said in an email to staff

HCL bucks the trend; says it intends to hire as others continue to fire

The firing spree was not limited to back-office jobs and affected big tech companies, including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google parent Alphabet, among others

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Amazon, Google CEOs hint at more layoffs amid meltdown to evaluate business

As tech layoffs continue unabated in 2023, Amazon and Google CEOs have hinted at more layoffs as the companies continue to evaluate business

Amazon Blockbuster Value Days sale: Know deals, discounts, bank offers

Amazon Blockbuster Value Days sale started today, April 14, and it will continue until April 17

Amazon.com Inc joins generative AI race, targets cloud customers

Amazon announced no plans to release a chatbot like the ones Microsoft and Google have debuted to mixed reviews

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI will be 'big deal' for the company

Tech giant was "spending heavily" on AI tools that have gained popularity in recent months

What led to mass layoffs in tech sector globally and who was affected?

According to a report over 150,000 people have been affected by tech layoffs in 2022 alone, whereas, 68,500 new cuts were seen in January 2023 alone