Amazons purchasing power will need to come into play to secure deeper discounts GlobalData, a data and analytics company, suggests that Amazon will need to provide a compelling promotional event during its two-day Prime event in the UK on July 11 to entice spending and reverse the decline in Prime…
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Proposed order to require Amazon to pay $US25 million The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have reached a settlement with Amazon regarding charges that the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule) and deceived parents and users of the Alexa voice…
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Co-developing computer vision AI services Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SK Telecom, the information and communications technology arm of SK Group, the second largest conglomerate in Korea, today announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Las Vegas that the two companies will co-develop a new set of computer vision services. This collaboration aims to make it easier and…
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Amazon has patented artificial intelligence methods to enhance data sets The US tech giants Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAMAM) have filed more than 106,000 patents and Chinese tech trio Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (BAT) have filed over 80,000 patents during the last five years. This indicates that innovation…
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The era of CIOs investing in cloud IaaS and PaaS maybe over. The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 40.7 per cent in 2020 to total USUS$64.3 billion, up from US$45.7 billion in 2019, according to Gartner, Inc. Amason retained the No. 1 position in the IaaS market in…
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There’s need for a regulator or authority for data business. By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India should set up a data regulator and require companies to disclose how they collect and store data devoid of personal details or which has been anonymised, a panel tasked to draw up…
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First renewable energy project in Shandong, China. Technology company Amazon has hit the ground running with its first first renewable energy project in China is a 100 megawatt (MW) solar project in Shandong, China. Once completed the project is expected to generate 128,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of clean energy annually.…
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Five APAC countries can now access the service Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I), a managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to improve model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions. Amazon A2I is available in Singapore, Tokyo,…
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