Amazon | Latest News & Updates - Nov 20, 2024 Release
Amazon has launched the Echo Show 21, its largest smart display yet, designed to enhance home organization, connectivity, and entertainment...
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🌎 amazon.deAmazon is a multinational technology company based in Seattle, WA, primarily known for its e-commerce platform. It operates in various sectors including cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. The company is committed to customer-centricity, innovation, and operational excellence, aiming to provide a wide range of products and services that enhance the customer experience. Amazon's offerings include retail goods, digital content, and subscription services like Amazon Prime, which provides fast delivery and exclusive access to entertainment.
Amazon - Latest News and Updates
- Amazon has launched the Echo Show 21, its largest smart display yet, designed to enhance home organization, connectivity, and entertainment.
- Amazon launched the Amazon Future Engineer program offering free online activities for Belgian secondary school students.
- Amazon's Q3 international operating income surged to $1.3 billion, contributing to a 56% year-over-year increase in overall operating income to $17.4 billion.
- Amazon Web Services' AWS Cloud Institute is partnering with Bellevue University to help more learners enter cloud computing careers.
- Amazon Air Cargo is now accepting air cargo from third parties like freight forwarders, with Tom Bradley, Amazon Air Cargo global director and general manager, reassuring that their network capacity and technology will prevent conflicts with Amazon's own shipments.
- Amazon has launched its AI shopping assistant Rufus in France.
- Amazon signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Simest SpA to support the growth of Italian small and medium enterprises through the 'Accelera con Amazon' program.
- Amazon introduced Amazon Lens, an AI-powered feature in their app that lets users identify and shop for products by taking or uploading photos.
- Amazon Data Firehose now streams database changes to data lakes or warehouses with support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB.
- Tencent is challenging Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in the cloud computing space by using WeChat's integrated super app ecosystem, according to Tencent Cloud CEO Dowson Tong.
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