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Incorporated as “Cadabra” in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, the company went online the following year as amazon.com. It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified into DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewellery. Apart from online retailing, Amazon also produces consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and the Kindle Fire tablet computer, and provides cloud computing services.
Amazon has invited select mainland Chinese merchants to join its new discount-shopping marketplace.
The company is now a member of an elite club of a handful of peers that have surpassed the key market capitalisation.
A planned discount section will feature cheap items such as unbranded fashion and home goods, according to slides shown to Chinese sellers.
Industry groups say it was crucial that their members have access to a diverse range of cloud technologies.
There’s no minimum spend, prices are low and orders from apps like Blinkit and Swiggy’s Instamart arrive in a matter of minutes.
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The DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia violated antitrust laws, while the FTC will examine the conduct of OpenAI and Microsoft, sources say.
The novelty of a Chinese internet company floating its shares in the UK could make Shein a trailblazer for other mainland tech firms.
Artificial intelligence could improve organisations’ productivity by up to 47 per cent, but 76 per cent of employers say they lack the knowledge to implement AI training, says study from Amazon Web Services.
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The outlay, to be done over the next four years, doubles the investment of subsidiary Amazon Web Services in the city state.
Silicon Valley giants including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, along with Chinese tech conglomerates such as Alibaba, are making a big push to grow in Southeast Asia.
Twitch, the live-streaming platform known for video game content, has launched Discovery Feed, allowing users to scroll through short clips from longer videos.
E-commerce titan Amazon on Tuesday said profit in the first three months of 2024 tripled as its cloud, ads, and retail businesses thrived.
TikTok last week failed to submit to the commission a risk assessment for its spin-off app by an April 18 deadline, and now has to do so by Tuesday.
Mainland China’s tech sector is bracing for a new round of job cuts at Ericsson, Tesla, Amazon.com and Intel.
Zando Global was launched on Thursday in the hopes of taking on the fast-fashion Chinese e-commerce retailers at home.
The first global standards specifically covering GenAI and LLM released on Tuesday are a joint effort between Ant Group, Baidu, Tencent, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia and others.
Generative AI may be the largest technological transformation since cloud computing or even the internet, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy writes in an annual shareholder letter.
The emergence of technology providers like Firework coincides with a growing ‘direct-to-customer’ trend for Chinese merchants involved in cross-border e-commerce.
Jeon Jong-seo and Moon Sang-min star in Amazon Prime’s Wedding Impossible, a K-drama that begins with a focus on LGBTQ themes, only to abandon them and meander towards a hollow ending.
The capital infusion brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic, whose other investors include Google, to US$4 billion.
The law, effective from March 7, aims to make it easier for people to move between competing online services.
They’re worth a combined US$400 billion, but just how did Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and LVMH boss Bernard Arnault achieve their billionaire status?
Government to post warnings at immigration checkpoints and hotels to remind travellers to have their own hygiene products, such as razors, because of throwaway plastics ban.
The lawsuit, brought by the US Justice Department and multiple states, accuses the tech giant of making it hard for consumers to switch to cheaper smartphones.
So far Amazon Prime K-drama Wedding Impossible has handled the struggles of A-jeong (Jeon Jong-seo) and Ji-han (Moon Sang-min) deftly – but everything else feels less than satisfying.
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