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Microsoft reportedly working on rival Amazon Go tech for cashier-free stores: Tom Warren at The Verge reports that Microsoft is allegedly working on technology that could be used to power check-out free retail stores. The software giant has been talking to Walmart about using the tech, which will rival Amazon’s own Go initiative. Amazon first launched its cashier-free convenience store last year in Seattle. Continue reading…
Facebook reportedly gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung: Sam Meredith at CNBC reports that The New York Times revealed on Sunday that Facebook had formed at least 60 data-sharing partnerships with device makers including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Samsung over the last 10 years. The embattled social media giant is already facing intense scrutiny from lawmakers, regulators and users around the world over its handling of personal data. Continue reading…
Amazon Prime’s popularity might have peaked in America: Brian Sozzi at The Street reveals that Amazon Prime penetration among US households may have peaked, according to a new survey from RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney. Over the last five years, Amazon Prime penetration in the U.S. has surged from 25% in June 2013 to 55% in May 2018. May’s result was unchanged compared to June 2017. It marked the first time in Mahaney’s four years of surveys on Amazon that the penetration number hasn’t grown. Continue reading…
Amazon home insurance could be on the horizon, but experts are sceptical of benefit to consumers: Carmen Reinicke at CNBC reports that after working on a project to disrupt health insurance, Amazon is considering offering home insurance as a complement to its growing line of smart home devices powered by Alexa. Smart homes are becoming more common in general. At the end of 2016, more than half of all homes in the United States were smart, a total of 21.8 million households according to a report by Berg Insights. Continue reading…
Workers not paid legally by Amazon contractor in China: Gethin Chamberlain at The Guardian reports that Amazon has admitted that thousands of agency workers who make its Echo smart speakers and Kindles in China were hired and paid illegally. The US giant issued a statement regretting “issues of concern” following an investigation by the Observer and the US-based China Labor Watch into the “unethical and illegal” working conditions at its supplier factory in Hengyang. Continue reading…
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