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Amazon is an electronic commerce company. It is the largest Internet based company in the United States. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics — notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico.
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Cloud vendors need to operate data centers in a diverse range of locations. How does they stack up to each other in terms of geographies, and why is that important? Read more »
AWS doesn’t have the public cloud to itself anymore. It faces two gigantic competitors trying to poach reference customers and growing adoption of hybrid cloud. Read more »
Want to back up DRM-free versions of your comics? ComiXology will let you do that now, though the biggest publishers — Marvel and DC — aren’t participating yet. Read more »
Hoping to poke around in an Fire Phone? According to a teardown from iFixit, there’s a security sticker that’ll tip Amazon off that you’ve voided your warranty. Read more »
Sales in the “other” Amazon Web Services category are down slightly quarter to quarter, but were up 38 percent year over year. Read more »
Amazon saw a steeper-than-expected net loss in its Q2 earnings report, sending stock down in after-hours trading. Read more »
The social scrapbook and visual discovery site, which processes about a petabyte of data daily, uses the Hadoop-as-a-service startup Qubole to handle Hadoop jobs and Puppet for its data processing configuration. Read more »
Two very different companies — Apple and Microsoft — posted financial results this week. Apple is clearly the iPhone company, selling 35.2 million iPhones in the quarter ending 28 June, a… Read more »
Not to be outdone by recent announcements from Amazon and Box, Dropbox unveiled new updates to its Dropbox for Business plan, including the ability to make folders view-only to make Dropbox… Read more »