Big Tech spins its way through the halls of power
As we predicted, it was a waste of time
The four big tech leaders spun their way through an antitrust panel in which they were so safe they could practically admit antitrust behaviour and get away with it.
Big Day for Big Tech
It is going to tell Congress what to do
It is a big day for the four biggest names in technology, they are going to show up in front of Congress which is pretty much in their pockets and answer tough questions like “how do you relax?”
Microsoft takes Minecraft off Amazon’s cloud
Stop supporting its rival
Microsoft will stop relying on Amazon to help it run the popular Minecraft video game.
Oracle parks its tanks on Amazon’s lawn
Installs its servers in enterprise customers’ premises
Oracle has announced a package for enterprise customers which it says will give them the full benefits of the company’s public cloud services while retaining all their data on-premise.
Amazon takes the coding out of coding
Honeycode allows mobile and web applications
Amazon has lifted the wrapper on its Honeycode managed service that allows users to build mobile and web applications without any programming.
EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges
Mis-use of data
The European Union is preparing to file antitrust charges against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's treatment of third-party sellers on its site.
Amazon pauses giving face detection software to cops
Probably not a good moment
Amazon on Wednesday said it was implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software, reversing its long-time support of selling the technology to law enforcement.
Amazon goes EPYC
AMD on its cloud
AMD announced its second generation EPYC processor is powering Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a and are switched on in the AWS US East, AWS US West, AWS Europe and AWS Asia Pacific regions.
Bezos will be the world's first trillionaire
Unless the revolution takes him out
A company which allows small- to medium-sized firms to compare different business products, has added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that the world's first trillionaire will likely be Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
Amazon might be losing market share
Positive signs of competition
Despite the fact it being some of the only way that people could buy products during the lockdown, there are signs that Amazon is starting to lose market share.