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Google launches fresh appeal to overturn $2.8 billion fine at top EU court
Google is filing an appeal at the European Union's top court against an earlier decision to uphold a $2.8 billion antitrust fine, a spokesperson for the Alphabet unit said late on Thursday, the company's...
Online Marketplaces
Amazon to open fashion store where algorithms suggest what to try on
Amazon.com Inc's recipe for the department store of the future includes algorithmic recommendations and what one corporate director called "a magic closet" in the fitting room.
The online retailer is making another push to grow...
Computing Platforms
Oracle opens data centre to provide cloud services across Africa
Oracle opened a data centre in South Africa to provide local cloud services across Africa for the first time, joining the likes of Microsoft and Amazon in setting up facilities in the southernmost country...
Online Marketplaces
How Amazon’s battle with Reliance for India retail supremacy became a legal jungle
For more than a year, Amazon.com and India's Future Group have been locked in a complex legal stand-off that has stalled Future's $3.4 billion sale of assets to the US firm's rival Reliance Industries...
Computing Platforms
Amazon shortens COVID isolation, paid leave for US workers
Amazon.com Inc has told workers they only have to isolate for a week after testing positive for COVID-19, instead of 10 days, following updated US health guidance.
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has prompted...
Online Marketplaces
Walmart to hire over 3,000 US drivers as it expands home delivery
Walmart has said it plans to hire more than 3,000 US delivery drivers and build out a fleet of all-electric delivery vans to support its "in-home" grocery delivery service, its latest investment in its...
App Stores
Big Tech critics ask Raimondo for meeting after critique of European proposals
Critics of tech giants like Google pressed Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo for a January meeting after she expressed concern about proposed legislation in Europe aimed at reining in the US platforms.
Yelp, the News Media...
Computing Platforms
Two US senators seek probe into Amazon.com labor practices
US Senators Marco Rubio and Sherrod Brown on Monday asked the Labor Department for a full investigation into Amazon.com Inc's labor practices.
Rubio, a member of the GOP, and Brown, a Democrat who chairs the...
App Stores
EU Parliament backs tough new rules to rein in US tech titans
EU lawmakers have voted to beef up draft rules to rein in US tech giants, including extending the scope to their retailing activities and to their business users outside Europe, as part of their...
Computing Platforms
Amazon cloud unit recovers from brief outage affecting third-party services
Amazon.com Inc has said it had recovered from a brief outage at its Amazon Web Services cloud unit that affected internet connectivity in two regions on the US West Coast.
AWS's dashboard that logs outages...
App Stores
Apple closes in on $3 trillion market value
Apple Inc's market value hovered just shy of the $3 trillion mark, following a stunning run over the past decade that has turned it into the world's most valuable company.
The company’s shares fell just...
Computing Platforms
Outage shows how Amazon’s complex cloud makes backup plans difficult
Major companies using Amazon.com's data services got a painful lesson this week about how the complexity and market dominance of the company's cloud unit make it difficult to back up their data with other...