(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. has paused some hiring at its Alexa division amid growing pressure to make money from the voice-activated digital assistant, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The pullback began shortly after the pandemic gripped the U.S. in the early spring, the people said. For several
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Online retail giant Amazon has launched an internet pharmacy in India, marking its entry into the country’s online medicine market.
Amazon Pharmacy will make its debut in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) and it may be trialled in other Indian cities.
The move comes as the online drugs business has been given
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos joined the leaders of Apple, Facebook, and Google on July 29 to testify before Congress on antitrust issues.
For Bezos, how
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The heads of some of the world’s biggest tech companies have appeared before Washington lawmakers to defend their firms against claims they abuse their power to quash competitors.
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos said the world “needs large” firms, while the heads of Facebook, Apple and Google argued their companies had
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A key House lawmaker investigating Big Tech’s power is squarely targeting Amazon.
Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat, told Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a hearing Wednesday that
The chiefs of four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — will face lawmakers Wednesday for a hearing on digital competition that could have cataclysmic impacts on an industry largely unhindered by regulators.
The grilling of tech titans Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook,
The chiefs of four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — will face lawmakers Wednesday for a hearing on digital competition that could have cataclysmic impacts on an industry largely unmoored by regulators.
The grilling of tech titans Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook,
Unprecedented is a dangerous word in journalism, but this really hasn’t happened before.
On Wednesday, four of the biggest names in tech will give evidence to members of the US Congress.
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Sundar Pichai (Google), Tim Cook (Apple) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon) will all be grilled.
Jeff Bezos
The pandemic has upended businesses across the world, but it has been very good for Amazon. Every lockdown “click to purchase” nudged the company a little further toward utter domination of online shopping as total e-commerce sales nearly doubled in May. But if bigger was better for everyone, Amazon founder
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On Wednesday, four big tech CEOs — Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — will come face to face with Congress, in a hearing held by Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline. The hearing is one result of a yearlong investigation by Cicilline’s subcommittee
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The tech CEOs of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook will appear before Congress in a first-of-its-kind hearing on Wednesday.
They’ll be testifying as part of an antitrust investigation into the dominance of
Sometime very soon, four of the most powerful men on the planet will face off against a small congressional subcommittee.
The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Yes tech execs are called into D.C. regularly these days, but this time is different. These are the CEOs of the four mega-tech companies, starting
When the pandemic forced Pizza Pilgrims to close its 13 stores in London and Oxford in March, the business went from making 30,000 pizzas every week to zero. Of the 276 staff, 270 had to be furloughed.
While they opened one store in April to manage delivery, founder Thom Elliot
When the pandemic forced Pizza Pilgrims to close its 13 stores in London and Oxford in March, the business went from making 30,000 pizzas every week to zero. Of the 276 staff, 270 had to be furloughed.
While they opened one store in April to manage delivery, founder Thom Elliot
Google has dropped commission fees for retailers selling on its search engine as competition in e-commerce intensifies with Amazon.
The search engine giant previously charged brands a commission of between 10 and 15pc to make sales over its Buy on Google tool.
Buy on Google allows customers to make
