Amazon investigated for exploiting the pandemic
Odd pricing alledged
Amazon is being investigated by German authorities for allegedly abusing its market position during the coronavirus pandemic.
US Justice Department preparing to take on Big Tech
Anti-trust investigations for everyone
The US Justice Department is moving “full-tilt” on its antitrust investigation of Google and other Big Tech platforms.
Amazon scout bots emerging from smoke filled garages
Home engineering
The next generation of Amazon's Scout bots -- the fully-electric autonomous delivery devices the company is hoping to deploy soon, are being designed and built by a team of mechanical engineers in Seattle in their homes and garages.
Apple slashed its App Store fee for Amazon
Mates rates
While the fruity cargo cult Apple is insisting that it needs to take a third of profits from app store developers, it is not above doing cosy deals with the likes of Amazon.
FCC approves Amazon’s Kuiper constellation
Blotting out the sun
The Federal Communications Commission has approved Amazon’s plans for its Kuiper constellation, which entails sending 3,236 satellites into orbit to beam internet coverage down to Earth.
Big Tech spins its way through the halls of power
As we predicted, it was a waste of time
The four big tech leaders spun their way through an antitrust panel in which they were so safe they could practically admit antitrust behaviour and get away with it.
Big Day for Big Tech
It is going to tell Congress what to do
It is a big day for the four biggest names in technology, they are going to show up in front of Congress which is pretty much in their pockets and answer tough questions like “how do you relax?”
Microsoft takes Minecraft off Amazon’s cloud
Stop supporting its rival
Microsoft will stop relying on Amazon to help it run the popular Minecraft video game.
Oracle parks its tanks on Amazon’s lawn
Installs its servers in enterprise customers’ premises
Oracle has announced a package for enterprise customers which it says will give them the full benefits of the company’s public cloud services while retaining all their data on-premise.
Amazon takes the coding out of coding
Honeycode allows mobile and web applications
Amazon has lifted the wrapper on its Honeycode managed service that allows users to build mobile and web applications without any programming.