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Amazon has announced a new initiative named Buy With Prime that extends the purview of its Prime subscription service beyond the bounds of Amazon.com — a significant change to its business strategy that could help it compete with fast-growing rival Shopify.

Amazon now lets merchants sell goods with Prime benefits on own sites

April 21, 2022

Four astronauts were poised to launch on the SpaceX Crew Dragon “Resilience” to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the US hopes will be many routine missions following a successful test flight in late spring.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX raises over $337 million in fresh funding

December 30, 2021

China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app.

TikTok becomes world’s most popular website, surpasses Facebook, Google

December 27, 2021

FILE PHOTO - Piyush Goyal, India's Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce and Industry, attends a session at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. REUTERS-Denis Balibouse

Indian minister: ‘Arrogant’ U.S. ecommerce giants flout our laws

June 27, 2021

FILE PHOTO - Tasha heads to checkout at a Walmart Store in Chicago, November 23, 2012. REUTERS-John Gress (UNITED STATES - Tags- SOCIETY BUSINESS)-File Photo

Walmart plans big push to challenge Amazon on advertising

January 28, 2021

Amazon faces backlash from Indian ruling party lawmakers over web series ‘Tandav’

January 17, 2021

Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday, a significant step toward their use for widespread commercial deliveries.

FAA approves small drones in the U.S. to fly over people and at night

December 29, 2020

Amazon.com on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia.

Amazon shifts some Alexa, Rekognition computing to its own Inferentia chip

November 13, 2020

CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey gives his opening statement remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing 'Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?', on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., October 28, 2020. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS

U.S. Senate hearing to reform Section 230 internet law becomes political showdown

October 29, 2020

Amazon posts biggest profit despite raging coronavirus pandemic

July 31, 2020

(FILES) A file photo taken on November 20, 2017 shows logos of US multinational technology company Google displayed on computers' screens. Google is dropping out of the bidding for a huge Pentagon cloud computing contract that could be worth up to $10 billion, saying the deal would be inconsistent with its principles. The decision by Google, confirmed to AFP in an email October 9, 2018, leaves a handful of other tech giants including Amazon in the running for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract aimed at modernizing the military's computing systems. / AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE

Google faces tough rules in India’s e-commerce draft

July 4, 2020

Walmart Inc. has partnered with e-commerce giant Shopify Inc. to expand its third-party marketplace site and grab more of the pandemic-fueled surge in online shopping.

Walmart partners with Shopify to expand web business

June 15, 2020

Amazon launches data centre operations in South Africa

April 22, 2020

Apple will stop taking cut of some video app purchases made through the App Store

April 2, 2020

Amazon.com Inc and its Ring home security camera unit have been sued by an Alabama homeowner who said the cameras’ defective design leaves purchasers vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Amazon’s Ring cameras are vulnerable to hackers – lawsuit

December 28, 2019