GigaomIt looks as if Amazon is building out its robot army
Bill Vass, formerly CEO of Liquid Robotics and a Sun Microsystems veteran, is now VP of engineering at Amazon Web Services. Read more »
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Bill Vass, formerly CEO of Liquid Robotics and a Sun Microsystems veteran, is now VP of engineering at Amazon Web Services. Read more »
New owner Jeff Bezos hasn’t done anything spectacular like shutting down the Washington Post’s printing presses, but the paper has been making some interesting moves lately that other media companies could… Read more »
Tom Szkutak will retire from his post as Amazon CFO next summer; his successor will be insider Brian Osavksy. Read more »
According to “Bezos’s law,” a unit of computing power price is reduced by 50 percent approximately every three years. AppZero’s Greg O’Connor looks at why the economic gap that favors cloud… Read more »
Lookout, which is all over consumer phones, now has money — from Bezos Expeditions and others — to attack the corporate mobile security market as well. Read more »
Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch spoke out Sunday, saying that “Amazon is seeking a lot more profit and even more market share, at the expense of authors, bricks and mortar… Read more »
The Washington Post saw record traffic to its website in July, and editor-in-chief Marty Baron credits the paper’s new digital projects and the addition of about 60 new editorial staff for… Read more »
A day after Flipkart announced $1 billion in new funding for its Indian e-tail juggernaut, Amazon says it will invest $2 billion in its own Indian operations. 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 »
The conventional wisdom seems to be that by putting the screws to publishers like Hachette, Amazon is displaying its monopoly powers and ruining the book industry. But it is actually making… Read more »