Amazon has already been in the crosshairs of the White House when it comes to threats of antitrust investigations, and while some say this is simply Trumpian bluster that has a slim chance of going anywhere, some new numbers out from the researchers at eMarketer could prove to be a fan to the Artikel lesen
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Smart speaker adoption expected to grow 6 times by 2022, with Apple trailing
A new report projects that the smart speaker market will continue its torrid pace of growth with Google and Amazon battling for dominance and Apple stuck in a distant third place. Artikel lesen
Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services
From payments to lending to insurance to checking accounts, Amazon is attacking financial services from every angle without applying to be a conventional bank. Artikel lesen
Alexa, kauf eine Waschmaschine bei Otto: Amazon öffnet Echo für alle
Jeder der etwas verkaufen möchte, kann jetzt einen Alexa-Skill entwickeln. Klingt banal, ist aber genau das Gegenteil: Amazon setzt große Hoffnungen in seine Echo-Geräte und die Sprachassistentin Alexa. Bequem und schnell etwas per Zuruf bestellen, das passt einfach zu Amazon. Artikel lesen
The Insane Amounts of Data We’re Using Every Minute (Infographic)
With all the tweets, iMessages, streamed songs and Amazon prime orders, did you ever wonder just how much data is actually being generated every minute? To find out, cloud-based operating system Domo analyzed data usage over the past year, and shared the re Artikel lesen
Wenn Amazon das Wohnzimmer zur Bank macht
Mit eigenen Bezahlsystemen stoßen die großen Konzerne wie Amazon, Google oder Apple immer weiter ins Geldgeschäft vor. Machen die Tech-Giganten die klassischen Banken und Sparkassen irgendwann überflüssig? Wenig Zeit? Am Textende gibt’s eine Zusammenfassung. Artikel lesen
2018 Internet Trends Report
Kleiner Perkins partners with the brightest entrepreneurs to turn disruptive ideas into world-changing businesses. The firm has helped build and accelerate growth at pioneering companies like AppDynamics, Google, Amazon, Flexus Biosciences, Nest, Waze, Twitter, JD.com and Square. Artikel lesen
Amazon is moving into blockchain with a new partnership
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
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