Amazon’s cloud computing arm is looking to make it easier for customers to use blockchain with a new partnership announced Tuesday. The cloud computing giant will team with a new start-up launching Tuesday called Kaleido, which was born out of leading blockchain incubator known as Consensys. Artikel lesen
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Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other U.S. company
Tech companies claimed the top five spots in the U.S. for research and development spending again last year, investing a combined total of $76 billion. Amazon was at the top of the list, spending $22.6 billion in 2017, 41 percent more than in 2016 (when it also topped the list). Artikel lesen
Amazon’s Next Mission: Using Alexa to Help You Pay Friends
Amazon.com Inc. is considering whether to use its Alexa virtual assistant to start a person-to-person payments feature, a move that would push the retailing giant into new competition with PayPal Holdings Inc. Artikel lesen
Banking’s Amazon Moment
Why is Amazon doing this, and what is likely to come next? Will Amazon succeed, and how concerned should banks and other financial services firms be? What should they do about it? Why Amazon would bother The checking and debit account components of a banking relationship are notoriously unprofita Artikel lesen
Retailers Race Against Amazon to Automate Stores
SEATTLE — To see what it’s like inside stores where sensors and artificial intelligence have replaced cashiers, shoppers have to trek to Amazon Go, the internet retailer’s experimental convenience shop in downtown Seattle. Artikel lesen
Are bankers underestimating Amazon?
More than a decade ago, bankers successfully fought off the retail giant Walmart as it tried to buy a bank by arguing that it was dangerous for commerce to mix with banking. Artikel lesen
FedEx Follows Amazon Into the Robotic Future
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. — As soon as the first robot arrived at a FedEx shipping hub in the heart of North Carolina tobacco country early last year, talk of pink slips was in the air. Artikel lesen
Amazon Strategy Teardown: Amazon’s Barreling Into Physical Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, And AI-Led Computing
Seattle-based Amazon is doubling down on AI for AWS and the ecosystem around its AI assistant, Alexa. It’s seeking to become the central provider for AI-as-a-service. But it’s not leaving retail behind either, running grocery, book, and convenience stores across the US. Artikel lesen
Amazon Poised to Launch Robo Advisor
Advisors look out. The big bang moment in wealth management might be about to happen. That moment might be when Amazon launches its own robo advisor, taking the concept to the masses in a way that has not been done before. Artikel lesen
Next Up for Amazon: Checking Accounts
Amazon.com Inc. is in talks with big banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. about building a checking-account-like product the online retailer could offer its customers, according to people familiar with the matter. Artikel lesen
Amazon tüftelt an Bankkonto-Angebot für eigene Kunden
DüsseldorfDas „Wall Street Journal“ berichtet unter Berufung auf Insider, dass der US-Techkonzern mit großen Banken wie JP Morgan Chase Gespräche über ein Girokonto-ähnliches Produkt spreche, das er seinen Kunden anbieten wolle. Artikel lesen
Why Ring needed to sell and why Amazon bought it
Amazon plans to buy Ring, the maker of a connected doorbell and security system, in a deal that Reuters says is valued at $1 billion. Artikel lesen
Amazon to acquire Ring video doorbell maker, cracking open the door in home security market
Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Ring, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based maker of video cameras, doorbells and other smart home technologies, GeekWire has learned. The companies are expected to announce the acquisition this afternoon. Artikel lesen
Amazon’s Latest Ambition: To Be a Major Hospital Supplier
Amazon.com Inc. is pushing to turn its nascent medical-supplies business into a major supplier to U.S. hospitals and outpatient clinics that could compete with incumbent distributors of items from gauze to hip implants. Artikel lesen
Conversations First: How Financial Services Is Evolving for the Voice Era
Voice-powered devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home are quickly changing consumer behavior. Google says more than 20 percent of searches now happen by voice and estimates that figure will reach 50 percent by 2020. Artikel lesen
World Leaders Have Decided: The Next Step in AI is Augmenting Humans
Think that human augmentation is still decades away? Think again.
This week, government leaders met with experts and innovators ahead of the World Government Summit in Dubai. Their goal? To determine the future of artificial intelligence. Artikel lesen
Amazon stoppt Kontozugriff per Alexa
Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things
Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung have all been working hard to create their own standard to control all the connected devices around your home. Mozilla just announced that anybody can now create an open gateway to control the internet of things. Artikel lesen
China and the US are bracing for an AI showdown—in the cloud
Chinese and American tech giants are preparing for a showdown that may shape the future of artificial intelligence. China’s cloud providers, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, are getting ready to do battle with US giants Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to deliver AI online. Artikel lesen
Inside Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Thirumalai, a computer scientist who’d left IBM in 2005 to head Amazon’s recommendations team, had come to propose a sweeping new plan for incorporating the latest advances in artificial intelligence into his division. Artikel lesen
5 takeaways from JPM-Amazon-Berkshire health venture
If it were anybody else, it would be easy to say this idea is overly vague, idealistic and too good to be true: a health company that relies on the latest technology, makes workers happy, saves employers money, and, oh, is completely free of the constraints of profit motive. Artikel lesen
Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway team up on health-care plan ‘free from profit-making’
Amazon is diving into health care, teaming up with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the New York bank JPMorgan Chase, to create a company that helps their U.S. employees find quality care “at a reasonable cost.” Artikel lesen
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Disrupt Health Care
SEATTLE — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced on Tuesday that they would form an independent health care company to serve their employees in the United States. Artikel lesen
How Digital Banking Can Protect Against Big Tech Invasion
Retail banking is being attacked by both small fintech firms as well as the big tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and others. The best defense that traditional financial institutions can use against this invasion is a strong, personalized digital banking offense. Artikel lesen
Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future
SEATTLE — The first clue that there’s something unusual about Amazon’s store of the future hits you right at the front door. It feels as if you are entering a subway station. Artikel lesen
Amazon’s Checkout-Free Grocery Store Is Opening to the Public
In the shadow of Amazon’s offices in downtown Seattle, people enter a tiny grocery store, take whatever they want, and then walk out. And nobody runs after them screaming. This is what it’s like to shop at Amazon Go, the online retail giant’s vision for the future of brick-and-mortar stores. Artikel lesen
Bequemlichkeit schlägt alles, sogar deutsche Bedenken
Das nächste Interface für die digitale Welt wird die Stimme. Die Einstiegsdrogen von Amazon und Google verbreiten sich auch hierzulande schnell, und die Folgen werden so tiefgreifend sein wie beim Smartphone. Das ist witzig, weil das Zwiegespräch mit Netzrobotern Normalität geworden ist. Artikel lesen
Alexa kommt auf Uhren, Kopfhörer, Brillen – und in Backöfen
Wenn es nach Amazon geht, wird bald jedes denkbare Gerät mit Alexa laufen. Jedenfalls unternimmt der Hersteller derzeit alles, Alexa in so viele Geräte wie möglich zu integrieren. Artikel lesen
Forget banks, in 2018 you’ll pay through Amazon and Facebook
In 2018 the banks will concede customer mindshare to the GAFAMs (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) and the BATs (Baidu, Alipay, Tencent). The proof? Take a look at the trajectories of Paym in the UK and Venmo in the US. Non-banks are simply better at this than banks are. Artikel lesen
The future of the ‘Internet of Things’ security issues
Whether it’s using Amazon Echo to control the heating and lighting in your home, remote analysis and diagnostics of your car’s performance, or the intelligent, automated management of your work environment, the Internet of Things (IoT) has already made its way into many aspects of the way peo Artikel lesen