Latest in Tag: Amazon Highlight
Latest in Tag: Amazon

Smartphones, wearables and big data may be the one health risk you can’t avoid
Mobile devices are becoming vital health tools. One day, we may even be forced to use them to collect data about ourselves – truly, big data. The question is who’ll own it and what will they do with it? Everywhere you look in technology these days, you’re likely to find people talking about two things: …

Amazon expected to unveil 3D smartphone to court mobile shoppers
Analysts said Amazon has more opportunities outside the United States.

Amazon.com plans local services marketplace this year: Sources
Amazon aims to gauge demand and test logistics before rolling out nationwide, mirroring its approach to its grocery delivery service, Amazon Fresh.

HP to invest over $1bn in open-source cloud computing
Reuters – Hewlett-Packard Co said it plans to invest more than $1bn over the next two years to develop and offer cloud-computing products and services. The company said it will make its OpenStack-based public cloud services available in 20 data centers over the next 18 months. OpenStack, a cloud computing project that HP co-founded, provides …

Online shopping on the rise in Egypt: MasterCard
Souq, Jumia, Amazon and Facebook the most commonly used online shopping websites

IBM to invest $1.2bn to expand ‘cloud’
Fifteen new data centers will be opened to bring the total IBM network to 40, the company said.

Court battle between Apple and Amazon
Amazon, who launched its own app store in March 2011, was sued in the same month by the Apple alleging trademark violation and false advertising.

YouTube launches paid channels, in TV challenge
The move puts Google into direct competition with services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon

Indigenous Brazilian tribe demands extinction over expulsion
The Guarani Kaiowá tribe and others like it have often received threats from ranchers and loggers with little help from the government
Amazon, Apple, Twitter score low on clean energy: study
By Glenn Chapman / AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon, Apple and Twitter were graded poorly Tuesday in a Greenpeace study of technology titans’ use of clean energy to power the mushrooming Internet cloud, but Facebook, Google and Yahoo! won praise. The environmental charity’s “How Clean is your Cloud?” report, billed as a rallying cry instead of …