Category: Amazon
Amazon leads £450 million funding round in Deliveroo
Amazon is leading a 575 million US dollars (£450 million) investment round in Deliveroo, in a move that is sure to have repercussions throughout the food delivery sector and send shockwaves running through to its main competitors, including Just Eat. London-based Deliveroo announced that the tech giant would join existing investors T Rowe Price, Fidelity…
Amazon customers can now pick up items from Next stores
Amazon has launched a new service which will allow customers to collect parcels from pick-up points inside the stores of high street retailer Next. Launching at hundreds of Next stores in the UK, shoppers who use the new system – called Amazon Counter – will be able to choose a pick-up point when they reach…
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to send spaceship to moon
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has announced he is going to send a spaceship to the moon. Mr Bezos said his space company Blue Origin will land a robotic ship the size of a small house, capable of carrying four rovers and using a newly designed rocket engine. It would be followed by a version that…
Amazon failing to remove enough fake reviews, claims Which?
Retail giant Amazon is only removing a proportion of fake and suspicious reviews that risk misleading shoppers into buying poor-quality products, according to Which? The watchdog found Amazon had removed 78,000 reviews for popular technology products over the last three years, but said the number was not “nearly enough” to address the problem. It found…
Amazon results boosted by cloud and subscription-based services
Cloud services and subscription-based products such as Prime helped Amazon achieve strong quarterly results once again, with net sales up 17% to 59.7 billion dollars (£42.6 billion). The company’s growing cloud business – Amazon Web Services – delivered the biggest area of growth in the three months to the end of March, with net sales…
YouTube to return to Amazon Fire TV devices
YouTube is set to return to Amazon’s Fire TV streaming devices in an apparent end to a near two-year spat between the pair of tech giants. The video sharing site’s owner Google and online retail behemoth Amazon first clashed in September 2017, after Google claimed that the way Amazon used the YouTube app on its…
Amazon customer ratings hit by ‘fake’ five-star reviews, claims Which?
Amazon’s system of customer reviews and ratings is being undermined by a flood of “fake” five-star reviews for products made by unknown brands, a consumer group has claimed. Which? investigated hundreds of technology products in 14 popular categories, including headphones, dash cams, fitness trackers and smart watches, checking for tell-tale signs of suspicious reviews. It…
Amazon confirms it does ‘listen to what users say to Alexa’ for training purposes
I don't think it will come as a great surprise to many of us. But Amazon has confirmed its staff do listen to recordings of customer interactions with voice-based assistant Alexa to 'help train the artificial intelligence’s responses'. The tech giant uses review teams around the world to analyse and annotate some recordings gathered from…
Apple Music comes to Amazon Echo in UK
Apple Music subscribers in the UK can now listen to music through Amazon Echo devices for the first time, as Apple continues to broaden its services beyond the iPhone and iPad. The roll out comes a couple of weeks after the feature was switched on in the US, despite Apple Music being a competitor to…
Volkswagen working with Amazon to improve worldwide factory efficiency
Volkswagen is partnering with Amazon to develop cloud computing capacity aimed at improving efficiency and co-ordination across the carmaker’s global factory network. Volkswagen, the world’s largest carmaker by unit sales with 10.83 million vehicles sold last year, says that combining data from its 122 factories will allow it to standardise production planning and management of…
