Experts and optimists can’t help but extoll the positive effects that artificial intelligence (AI) may have on our future. It will revolutionize healthcare! It will make ordering things from Amazon easier than ever! It may even take over the world! But there will be some casualties along the way. Artikel lesen
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All of Amazon’s Warehouses in One Giant Infographic
View the high resolution version of today’s graphic by clicking here. Last year, Amazon shipped over 5 billion (with a “B”) Prime packages, and the retail giant’s ecommerce market share in the U.S. is on the verge of surpassing 50%. Artikel lesen
Amazon überrollt mit 20.000 Lieferfahrzeugen die Paketdienste
Amazon macht Ernst: Der Aufbau der Fahrzeugflotte für Amazon Logistics geht voran. Mit 20.000 Mercedes-Sprintern gehen bald hunderte Subunternehmer in den USA auf die Straße und machen den Paketdiensten Konkurrenz. Denn die schaffen laut Amazon die Zustellung nicht mehr. Artikel lesen
‘Amazon Bank’ Is Already Here (Without a Charter or Regulatory Approval)
Nothing can stop Amazon. Not even banking regulators or geographic borders can slow them down. With patents, patience, a willingness to fail, a huge and devoted customer base, a universe of data, and gobs of money, Amazon represents a real threat to the traditional banking industry. Artikel lesen
Google Glass Is Back–Now With Artificial Intelligence
Google Glass lives—and it’s getting smarter. On Tuesday, Israeli software company Plataine demonstrated a new app for the face-mounted gadget. Aimed at manufacturing workers, it understands spoken language and offers verbal responses. Think of an Amazon Alexa for the factory floor. Artikel lesen
The Amazing Ways Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
When you discover the ways Chinese company Alibaba, the world’s largest e-commerce marketplace with $248 billion in transactions (more than eBay and Amazon combined), invests in artificial intelligence and machine learning, you realize quickly that the list of what it doesn’t impact is much shorter. Artikel lesen
Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend
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
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