Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, is now also selling rocket motors.
Blue Origin, the space company of Amazon-CEO Jeff Bezos, now also sells rocket motors. The rocket maker United Launch Alliance has announced that it has chosen the company's BE-4 rocket motor for its new Vulcan Centaur rocket. In doing so, Bezos' company defeated the better-known Aerojet Rocketdyne,... Read more
Amazon Alexa had temporary connection problems in Europe
Amazon had problems with his Echo speakers yesterday. In Europe, hundreds of reports were made of problems with the speakers, which did not want to connect. Now everything is working again, reports Reuters.
With Amazon Alexa, users can use voice commands to control smart devices in their homes, play... Read more
Amazon launches more than a dozen new Echo products
Three days ago it was still a rumor; today it is reality. Amazon has made more than ten additions to its product range, with which it wants to significantly expand its presence in the home and beyond. These include significantly improved versions of the popular Echo speakers, but also completely new... Read more
Amazon wants to have 3,000 cash-less supermarkets by 2021.
Amazon plans to open up to 3,000 cash-less supermarkets in the next few years. At the moment there are only a few of them, so the expansion would be a pretty aggressive step in the market. An interesting one too, because Amazon sees great potential for the concept.
That's what anonymous sources with... Read more
This year, Amazon will introduce eight new Alexa devices, including a subwoofer and a microwave oven.
Amazon's got a taste for it. It seems that the web giant is coming this autumn with no less than eight new Alexa devices. Whereas the virtual assistant has until now been limited to use as a refined speaker, there will now be a microwave oven, subwoofer and autogadget.
That's CNBC today, saying ther... Read more
“Amazon is investigating data breaches by its own employees.
Amazon would be investigating data leakage by employees. The employees would also have taken bribes in exchange for those dates. In addition, they would have removed bad reviews and put banned accounts back in place.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the practices are said to occur particularly ... Read more
AWS will also offer space and satellite networks
Looks like Amazon's ready to settle the final frontier. Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud branch, posted two vacancies for a satellite software developer and a product manager. Both vacancies, related to a daring space project, were then removed fairly quickly.
The site This Just In, which fo... Read more
Co-founder of Salesforce buys Time Magazine
After Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post in 2013, there is still a tech billionaire who buys his own magazine. Marc Benioff, co-founder of Salesforce, together with his wife Lynne Time Magazine, took over from Meredith Corp. Before that, the couple paid $190 million.
Adweek repo... Read more
HubSpot moves the bulk of IT infrastructure to AWS
Maker of marketing software HubSpot embraces Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its partner for cloud services. The company moves the majority of its IT infrastructure to AWS. These include HubSpot CRM, Marketing Hub, Sales Hub and Service Hub. The company will also improve various services with the techn... Read more
Amazon is the world’s second largest company worth $1 trillion
For a short time, the question was which company would be worth $1 trillion more: Apple or Amazon. Last month, that race was settled in Apple's favour. Yesterday, Amazon also crossed the border. This was due to the fact that the value of the company's shares was more than USD 2,050.50. The company's... Read more