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Amazon Australia has announced the launch of Amazon Launchpad Innovation Grants, an initiative to recognise innovation by Australian startups, entrepreneurs and SMBs. More

The projects in China, Australia, and the U.S. will total 615 MWh. Comes as Amazon criticised for conditions and lack of paid sick leave in U.S.More

The cloud giant says Kendra uses its machine learning framework to provide high-quality results to ‘natural language’ queries, as opposed to the more common search function which pulls a list of links in response to keywords.More

Provides out-of-the-box support for Amazon EventBridge, offering Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Boomi customers.More

IDC's research indicates that global shipments have fallen to 24.6 million units, down 18.1% year-over-year during the first quarter of 2020.More

Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa, takes up residence in the Echo Show 8.More

Slack has reported that in the past seven weeks, more than 7,000 new companies have signed up to Slack as remote working becomes the new norm. More

“Markets [in which] smart speakers are booming saw the most significant year-on-year growth.”More

For the second year, it made the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator list by Clarivate Analytics, which includes giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google.More

Data centers are now a cornerstone of the information economy, with USD$100 billion having been poured into the asset class over the past decade.More

"The amount of exposed records that we're seeing today means that cybercriminals are getting their hands on more keys to our homes and businesses.”More

The valuation of the global industry has doubled since 2017, and is set to reach $158 billion in the next four years.More

“Low-priced devices are vital growth drivers for smart displays and heated competition ahead of the Q4 shopping season is expected."More

Competition from lower-cost smartwatches will reduce average selling prices by 4.5% in 2021.More

The Oppo-supported up-and-comer has announced the release of four devices, three of which include quad-camera, all under $500.More

UPS has sent a warning shot to Amazon with its newly approved drone delivery fleet.More

Amazon has launched a new line-up of Echo devices, enabling users to access Alexa at home in different ways, as well as a range of Alexa features.More

Amazon EC2 will leverage G4 instances to boost resources required to tackle computationally demanding tasks that could benefit from additional GPU acceleration.More

"For Baidu to replace Google to become the world's second largest smart speaker vendor, is no small feat."More

Microsoft and Google join top dog AWS in the Leaders quadrant, while Alibaba Cloud, IBM and Oracle are coming up as Niche Players.More

All three companies gained 5 out of 5 for the hybrid cloud theme in GlobalData’s Thematic Scorecard for the cloud services sector. More

The total market, which swelled with 31.3% growth in 2018 to a total of $32.4 billion, is displaying strong signs of consolidation as the dominant players swoop in.More

“Once deemed consumer champions, Big Tech now appears to be the new dark side of capitalism, arguably presenting a bigger risk to society than bankers were."More

The tech giants are encroaching on financial services and threatening incumbents, says FintechNZ.More