Half the output from North Sea wind farm sold to Amazon
Shell and the Dutch electricity supplier Eneco have announced that half of the power generated by a future wind farm in the North Sea will be used to provide green electricity to an Amazon server.
The two energy companies are building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea called Hollands Kust N...
Jeff Bezos steps down from role as Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos has announced that he is stepping down from his position as CEO of Amazon. AWS CEO Andy Jassy will replace him. However, Bezos will continue to play an important role within Amazon as Executive Chair.
In an e-mail to Amazon employees, which was also published on Amazon's news page, Be...
EU and Big Tech companies push back February 1 hearing by two months
In the process of putting some reins on the power wielded by US Big Tech companies, EU lawmakers have told Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Alphabet that they are willing to push the proposed February 1 hearing to two months later.
The European Parliament invited the CEOs of the four biggest tech co...
EU invites tech leaders to talk about legislation
European Union lawmakers have invited leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet to Brussels to discuss future legislation for major tech companies.
The aim of the meeting is to discuss how to tackle problems related to competition and fake news. The EU is working on several laws in this ar...
Amazon is suing the EU over multiple antitrust investigations
Amazon is suing the EU's antitrust regulators for allowing Italy's competition watchdog to pursue its own case against the US-based online retail behemoth. The Italian case concerns the way Amazon selects its sellers. Now, the company is arguing that this investigation should be included in the EU'...
Amazon’s AWS opens its first office in Greece
Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS, has opened its first office in Greece. The official opening happened on Friday and aims to support AWS's goal; to grow the number of companies and public sector agencies that use its cloud services.
In Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotaki is ramping...
AWS expands Contact Center Intelligence into Europe
AWS has added the ability to apply the system's capabilities to existing contact centres to Contact Center Intelligence. Furthermore, the service is now more widely available in Europe.
Amazon announced CCI last summer. It combines a number of services to offer contact centres more machine learn...
Parler sues Amazon for taking down website
Parler has filed a lawsuit against Amazon. AWS was until recently the party that provided the hosting for the social medium but stopped doing so after the commotion surrounding the storming of the Capitol.
In the 18-page complaint, the social medium writes that Amazon's decision to stop hosting ...
Amazon acquires podcaster Wondery to enhance entertainment portfolio
Amazon signed a deal to buy a venture-backed podcast maker with 20 million monthly listeners named Wondery. The deal is a bid on the retail giant’s part, to expand into the entertainment business, where it has invested billions in recent times, to attract a larger audience.
For instance, the c...
How Big Tech seeks to influence the Biden administration
Stealth initiative pushes to steer the incoming Democratic government.
The powerful denizens of Silicon Valley are working behind the scenes to secure senior roles for their allies in low-profile but key areas of president-elect Joe Biden’s administration, according to Reuters.
The stealth ...
AWS unveils Chaos Engineering as a service, coming in 2021
When the biggest companies like Amazon or Netflix want to test their systems' strength, they use chaos engineering to simulate the worst-case scenarios and find potential issues before they happen.
At the AWS re:Invent summit on Tuesday, Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, showcased new Chaos Engineerin...
Amazon’s Zoox unveils autonomous, purpose-built Robotaxi
The unique vehicle is designed and manufactured in the United States.
Autonomous mobility company Zoox this week announced its fully functional, electric, autonomous vehicle designed for dense, urban environments. The company now claims it is the first in the industry to showcase a driving, purp...