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JANUARY 9, 2024

Amazon might never formally endorse AirPlay or Google’s media-casting tech. But the company will be the first to support Matter Casting, the video- and audio-beaming feature of the Matter smart home standard, on its smart displays and smart TVs, Amazon announced this morning at CES 2024.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns. The retailer announced the launch of a new Amazon feature, Your Books, which will organize all the books you’ve bought, borrowed, or saved, including print books, as well as Amazon’s Kindle and Audible titles.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon, which got its start selling books, is getting into the car business. It was inevitable. The e-commerce giant along with new partner Hyundai announced Thursday at the 2023 LA Auto Show that it will start selling vehicles on its website in the second half of 2024. All rights reserved.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Amazon is dropping Venmo as a payment option next month, the PayPal owned mobile payment service announced on its website. The official announcement comes as Amazon notified users last night via email that Venmo will no longer be accepted on Amazon.com starting January 10, 2024.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That leads to today’s news that the company is now working with Amazon to allow customers to link their Facebook and Instagram accounts to their Amazon account […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Vaishali Kasture, the executive Amazon appointed as the interim head of AWS India and South Asia, has quit the firm, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, merely seven months into the top role. Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment by email and phone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Amazon kicked off AWS re:Invent, its annual customer conference, in Las Vegas tonight with a few new serverless offerings designed to make it easier to manage Aurora, Elastic Cache and Redshift serverless services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Amazon has purchased three Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX to support deployment of its Project Kuiper mega-constellation, the company said Friday.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission made its big move against online shopping giant Amazon on Tuesday, accusing the company of illegally stifling competition on its way to becoming a ubiquitous retail presence and one of the world’s most valuable companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At its re:Invent conference today, Amazon’s AWS cloud arm announced the launch of SageMaker HyperPod, a new purpose-built service for training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). SageMaker HyperPod is now generally available.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Amazon has been No. 1 in the cloud for years but now finds itself playing catch-up to Microsoft when it comes to AI. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amazon announced another cluster of layoffs this week along with plans to discontinue the Crown channel, a flashy Amazon-run Twitch channel that featured television-like programming. Amazon will also shutter its Game Growth group, which helped creators in the gaming world market themselves.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

After recently turning to generative AI to enhance its product reviews, e-commerce giant Amazon today shared how it’s now using AI technology to help customers shop for apparel online.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

million in a funding round led by Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund (IIF) with participation from SOSV and Entrepreneur First. Amazon launched IIF last April to bolster startups addressing challenges across customer fulfillment, logistics and the supply […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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APRIL 24, 2024

The Amazon EU Design and Construction (Amazon D&C) team is the engineering team designing and constructing Amazon warehouses. The Amazon D&C team implemented the solution in a pilot for Amazon engineers and collected user feedback.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

"This might be the first time where people looked and said that Amazon isn't in the pole position to capitalize on this massive opportunity." © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Amazon just announced that it’s acquiring Wondery, the network behind podcasts including “Dirty John” and “Dr. ” Wondery will become part of Amazon Music, which added support for podcasts (including its own original shows) in September. Amazon Music adds podcasts, including its own original shows.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Amazon is piloting a new grocery subscription offering for Prime members in three cities, the company revealed on Thursday. per month subscription gives Prime members access to unlimited free grocery delivery on orders over $35 from Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh. The new $9.99

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a bid to help enterprises offer better customer service and experience , Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday, at its annual re:Invent conference, said that it was adding new machine learning capabilities to its cloud-based contact center service, Amazon Connect.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Amazon introduced AI to TNF last year, including X-Ray, which gives fans real-time access to live statistics and data; Rapid Recap, which generates up to 13 two-minute-long highlights for viewers to catch up on plays during a game and more. Note that Amazon will internally test the features during tonight’s preseason game at 8 p.m.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amazon has entered into a partnership with Snap to allow users to buy its products directly from ads on the social app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The Amazon ads on Snapchat will display real-time pricing, delivery estimates, product details and Prime eligibility, the e-commerce giant told […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Amazon’s US-based Amazon Fresh stores will no longer offer customers the option to “just walk out,” and will move to a system of scanners attached to carts instead of the more advanced computer vision system that obviated the checkout process altogether.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

One of those parties was Amazon, and the American e-commerce giant appears to have pulled the trigger Friday afternoon on its buy. Per a recent Form 4 filing , Amazon bought roughly $200 million worth of Rivian stock at its IPO price of $78 per share. When considering its previous ownership , Amazon now owns about 22% of Rivian.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Acko — which counts Amazon, Lightspeed Venture Partners India and CPPIB as existing backers — is among a handful of startups that is attempting to take on the country’s antiquated insurance industry with a digital-first product. Amazon-backed Acko nears $120 million in new funding by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition is that he also uses that day to publish his predictions for the coming year. This time around, I sat down with Vogels for a wide-ranging interview ahead of his keynote to delve a little […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

While Microsoft made headlines this week for its AI implementation, and Alphabet took a big stock hit for its slight cloud miss, Amazon growth has quietly settled into low double-digits growth. We’ve talked about the first to market advantage before, and it certainly applies when it comes to the cloud infrastructure market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Indian startup FreshToHome, which sells fresh fish and meat to consumers in the South Asian market and the Middle East region, has courted a new backer: Amazon. Amazon, through its India-focused Smbhav Venture Fund , has led a $104 million Series D financing round in the Bengaluru-headquartered startup, the two said Tuesday.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 30, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday said that it was making its generative AI -powered coding assistant Amazon Q Developer generally available.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amazon’s Buy with Prime, a service that lets Prime members shop directly from third-party merchants and get Prime benefits like free shipping and returns, launched today new features, including the ability to track Buy with Prime orders through Amazon’s website and mobile app as well as access to 24/7 live chats with customer service.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 3, 2024

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the cosine similarity metric for k-NN indexes. In this post, we show how to build a contextual text and image search engine for product recommendations using the Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings model , available in Amazon Bedrock , with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

. — Mary Ann Last week, my good friend and and Equity podcast co-host Natasha Mascarenhas and I reported that Amazon had struck a deal with embattled online mortgage lender Better.com to offer up a new benefit to employees. Amazon employees in Florida, New York and Washington State will be the first to try the tool.

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