All The Biggest Tech Announcements From Amazon’s Hardware Event
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September 25, 2020
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Amazon’s fall hardware event was crammed with announcements, including big changes to its range of Echo speakers. The e-commerce giant revealed it... Read More
Microsoft Headlines Tokyo Game Show – Sony, Nintendo Nowhere To Be Seen?
Microsoft will headline the Tokyo Game Show, which opens online tomorrow evening supported by Amazon with no sign of presentations from Sony... Read More
Amazon Selling $499 Peloton Knock-Off Bike In Fitness First
Amazon is now selling a vastly cheaper alternative to the popular Peloton smart bike in its first foray into connected fitness products.... Read More
Are Shoppers Buying The Wrong Xbox?
Confusion appears to be reigning at Amazon with the current-generation Xbox One X console rocketing up the sales charts as pre-orders open... Read More
Amazon Sidewalk Brings Your Smart Devices With You
Amazon is taking the smart home beyond the home with the launch of its Sidewalk technology. Set to release later this year,... Read More
New Amazon Echo Devices Coming This Week?
Amazon is reportedly set to unveil new Echo-branded smart home devices on September 24, with a hardware event tipped to debut several... Read More
Amazon Australia Recruits For Flex Delivery Expansion
Amazon Australia has expanded its Flex delivery service in Australia, recruiting more freelance drivers to cut delivery times for online customers in... Read More
LG Brings Amazon Music To Smart TVs
LG smart TVs will now have access to Amazon Music, with a firmware update adding the app to OLED, NanoCell and smart... Read More
Amazon Australia Sales Jump After Lockdown Boom
Amazon Australia has notched a 17% lift in online shoppers this year, as coronavirus lockdown measures trigger a buying boom according to... Read More
Govt Drafts New Powers To Fight Big Tech Market Abuse
German officials have approved new draft digital antitrust legislation, set to give the government more power in the fight against big tech... Read More
Amazon Cracks Down On Fake One-Star Reviews After Seller Pain
Amazon is cracking down on fake one-star reviews, following reports several independent sellers have received unfavourable reviews from other third-party sellers in... Read More
Ring Doorbells Gain Lutron Smart Lighting Integration
Amazon-owned smart doorbell and camera maker, Ring, is set to integrate with Lutron smart lighting systems, further increasing its push into professional... Read More
Myer Cuts Amazon Deal In Retail Overhaul
Embattled Aussie department store, Myer, has continued to overhaul its retail business, now inking a deal with Amazon to facilitate delivery of... Read More
Amazon Set To Anchor New $1.5B Melbourne Tower
Amazon is reportedly set to anchor a $1.5 billion skyscraper in Melbourne CBD, with the 60,000 sqm tower dubbed one of the... Read More
Smart Doorbells Under FBI Spy Suspicion
Amazon-owned smart doorbell maker, Ring, has attracted the suspicion of the FBI, following concerns consumers are misusing products of its type to... Read More
More Than 54,000 Scanned NSW Driver Licences Exposed On Cloud
SYDNEY: Tens of thousands of scanned NSW driver’s licences and completed tolling notices have been exposed on open Amazon Web Services storage.... Read More
Bezos’s Right-Hand Man Steps Down After Two Decades
SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon’s head of worldwide consumer business and Jeff Bezos’s right-hand man, Jeff Wilke, will retire next year. Dave Clark, SVP... Read More
Content Apps Ask Apple To Be Treated The Same As Amazon
In an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Digital Content Next – a non-profit international trade association for the digital content... Read More
COVID Turbocharges US Online Sales
SAN FRANCISCO: US consumers spent US$211.5 billion during Q2 on e-commerce, up 31.8 percent quarter over quarter. The US Census Bureau data... Read More
Amazon Moving Into Video Games With ‘Prime Gaming’
Amazon Prime is ramping up its activity in the video game subscription space – on Monday it gave more than 150 million... Read More
Will Amazon Convert Dead Malls Into Fulfilment Centres?
According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon has been in talks with the US commercial property owner Simon Property Group about converting... Read More
World’s Richest Retailer Sells $3B In Stock
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has sold 1 million shares in the e-commerce giant, worth approximately US$3.1 billion. While this is a hefty... Read More
Amazon’s Sales Surge 40% As Shoppers Move Online
Amazon’s net sales increased by 40% year-on-year (y-o-y) to $88.9 billion in Q2 2020, as shoppers across the globe moved to online... Read More
Amazon Slammed Over “Troubling” Private-Label Practices In US Hearings
Amazon Chief Executive, Jeff Bezos, has been slammed with questions over the e-commerce giant’s private-label practises in today’s landmark US hearings, citing... Read More
Big W Inks Amazon Echo Show Deal Amid Turnaround
Embattled Woolworths-owned department store, Big W, has gained distribution of Amazon’s Echo Show smart displays, as the discount retailer continues to progress... Read More
Google’s E-commerce Platform To Rival Amazon’s, Removes Fees
Google is continuing to make its e-commerce platform more appealing to sellers, as it ramps up its efforts to compete with Amazon.... Read More
Google Shopping Takes Aim At Amazon With New Seller Initiatives
Google has offered another focused attempt to compete with Amazon’s online portal, this time accelerating its ‘Shopping’ web platform to better capitalise... Read More
Amazon Accused Of Meeting With Start-Ups And Stealing Ideas
Nearly four years ago Amazon.com invested in DefinedCrowd Corp, which uses machine learning technology and human intelligence to enrich training data. Now,... Read More
Amazon Prime Day Sale Delayed
Behemoth e-commerce giant, Amazon, has reportedly delayed its annual ‘Prime Day’ in its home country of the United States – historically the... Read More
Apple Offices Raided Over Beats Headphone Sales
The Italian offices of Amazon and Apple have been raided as Italy’s antitrust authority opened an investigation into whether the companies engaged... Read More
Mega Amazon Sydney Warehouse Deal Raises The Bar
Amazon Australia has raised the amount of industrial space locally leased to a five-year high, following an agreement to rent out a... Read More
Amazon’s First Video Game Moved Into “Closed Beta” Following Poor Reviews
Relentless Studios – which is owned by Amazon’s Amazon Game Studios – has retreated its video game ‘Crucible’ into a “closed beta”... Read More
Amazon Hires Federal Prosecutors To Quash Counterfeit Sellers
Amazon has further retaliated against knock-off goods being sold from its e-commerce site, with the announcement of a ‘Counterfeit Crimes Unit’ made... Read More
Amazon Undergoing Major Expansion, New Warehouse, New Categories
Amazon who has delivered a record period of growth during COVID-19 is looking to expand their Australian operations with new product categories,... Read More
Amazon Australia’s Online Alcohol Store To Rival BWS & Liquorland
Amazon Australia is set to take on the likes of BWS, Liquorland and Dan Murphy’s with its new ‘Wine, Beer & Spirits’... Read More
Musk & Bezos Rivalry Heats Up With ‘Time To Break Up Amazon’ Tweet
The feud between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos has heated up with Musk’s recent “time to break up Amazon” tweet. This was... Read More
Amazon Posts 26% Q1 Growth And Has Sites Blacklisted In The Same Day
Yesterday, Amazon both reported net sales growth of 26% in Q1 2020 and had five of its e-commerce sites blacklisted by the... Read More
Amazon Prime Video Store Launched In Oz Today
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April 29, 2020
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Amazon Prime Video has launched its Prime Video Store in Australia, allowing viewers to rent or buy new films via primevideo.com or... Read More
Investors Bet Big On Tech Giants’ Pandemic Power
Investors appear to betting on big-tech stocks during the coronavirus pandemic, with Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google-parent Alphabet now comprising more... Read More
Amazon Under Fire For Shady Marketplace Practices
E-commerce giant, Amazon, is reportedly facing heavy scrutiny from US politicians following allegations of ‘predatory data practices’ on its Marketplace platform, which... Read More
Is Amazon’s COVID-19 Response Enough? Bezos Thinks So
In his latest letter to investors, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos outlined the measures the company has taken to combat price gouging and... Read More
Sonos, First They Nobble Customers Now They Nobble Retailers For Discounting
US sound Company Sonos, has moved to nobble the retail partners who helped get the brand off the ground in Australia, because... Read More
NEC A/NZ Offers Health Monitor App For Those Quarantined
SYDNEY: NEC A/NZ and a group of software developers have come up with a smartphone app, iQuarantine, that uses NEC’s face-recognition technology... Read More
Amazon Workers Strike For COVID19 Protection
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK: E-commerce giant Amazon is facing more problems than coronavirus as workers at their so-called fulfillment centres begin to exercise... Read More
Tech Companies Combine Forces To Fight COVID1
WASHINGTON: The White House has announced an unprecedented collaboration between US tech giants as they merge forces to fight the coronavirus. The... Read More
Amazon Asks Consumers to Cooperate In COVID-19 Price Gouging Investigation
Amazon has reportedly asked customers in the US to cooperate with the Department of Justice in its criminal investigation into third-party seller... Read More
Amazon Suspends Non-Essential Warehouse Deliveries
Amazon is suspending deliveries of non-essential items to its warehouses due to shortages resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The freeze is in... Read More
Amazon Bezos Biggest Loser
SAN FRANCISCO: It’s easy-come, easy-go for the world’s wealthiest man, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who lost US$7 billion in paper wealth... Read More
Alexa, How You’ve Grown: Amazon Offers 8-Inch Display
Following its US unveiling in September last year, the Amazon Echo Show 8-inch smart display with Alexa is finally on its way... Read More
Amazon Dominates Smart Speakers With 70% Market Share
Amazon’s Echo speaker are by far the most popular smart speakers – making up for 70% of devices – and will continue... Read More
