Amazon announces new fitness wearable, health services
Washington: Amazon recently announced a new fitness band and a range of health services to go along with it. As per The Verge, the new USD 79.99 Halo View includes a colour AMOLED display (similar to Fitbit’s Charge 5) and a year of Amazon’s Halo membership, which is required to access the tracker’s more advanced […]
Amazon planning to launch Alexa-powered TV in October
Washington: American tech giant Amazon may release Amazon-branded TVs as soon as October. The company has previously launched smart displays, smart speakers and Fire TV sticks. As per The Verge, Amazon will release Amazon-branded TVs in the US. The TVs will have Alexa, screen sizes in the range of 55 to 75 inches, and will […]
Supreme Court Rejects Amazon, Flipkart’s Plea against CCI Investigation |
Supreme Court Rejects Amazon, Flipkart’s Plea against CCI Investigation |
Grofers plays sanskaari while BigBasket gets set for liquor delivery
Kolkata: Online grocery platform Grofers is not keen to enter into the business of liquor delivery saying it serves mostly families, even as its main competitor BigBasket is set to foray into doorstep supply of alcoholic beverages. SoftBank-backed Grofers, which currently operates in 27 cities of the country, has lined up USD 25-30 million over […]
Microsoft joins Amazon, IBM to pause face scans for police, but they’re small players
Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM. Microsoft’s president and chief counsel, Brad Smith, announced the decision and called on Congress to regulate the technology during a Washington Post video event on Thursday. “We’ve […]
Amazon too reviews its policy on police use of its face-recognition tech amid #BLM
San Francisco: Amazon on Wednesday announced a one-year ban on letting police use its facial recognition technology, calling for strong government regulations for its ethical use. The moratorium comes after repeated calls by critics and racial justice groups for Amazon’s cloud computing unit to stop providing police and immigration officials with tools that can be […]
Kirana stores left out as JioMart launches in 200 cities without them
Weeks after Mukesh Ambani signed a deal between JioMart and Facebook, the self-declared kirana store aggregator has launched its services in 200 cities, including small cities such as Bhatinda, Mysuru and Dehradun, but without the neighbourhood stores on board. While a pilot project was launched last month in the Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan neighbourhoods […]
Amazon begins competing with Zomato, Swiggy in some parts of Bengaluru
New Delhi: Amazon India on Thursday said it is launching its food delivery operations in select parts of Bengaluru, a move that will see the e-commerce giant compete against major players like Zomato and Swiggy in the country. The announcement by Amazon India – which has been testing the service for a few months – […]
Trailer Talk: Four More Shots Are More Intensified Now
One of the superhit Indian web series on Amazon Prime Video is none other than ‘Four More Shots Please’ which features four women in the lead roles. As the season 2 of this series is all set to stream from April 17th, Amazon released the first trailer of it other day. Starring Sayani Gupta, Kirti […]
US: Amazon fires warehouse worker who staged walkout over COVID-19 concerns
Amazon fired a worker who organized a walkout at a New York warehouse to demand greater protection against the new coronavirus, saying the employee himself flouted distancing rules and put others at risk. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered the city’s Commission of Human Right to investigate whether the dismissal was retaliatory. New […]
India all set to Censor Netflix, Amazon Prime?
On-demand video streaming service such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HotStar and others are likely to come under censor scanner as the union government is thinking so. Currently, OTT platforms don’t fall under censorship unlike the film and TV. In the recent times many cases were filed against certain web-series and shows alleging that the […]