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Amazon Prime Day Returns: Massive Sales Event Kicks Off July 16-17
June 26, 2024 – Amazon has confirmed that Prime Day will return on July 16th at 3:00 PM Beijing time and continue until July 17th. This marks the tenth edition of the highly-anticipated Prime Day event. Currently, an Amazon Prime membership costs 14.99permonthor139 per year. Eligible customers can also enjoy a 30-day free trial. In…
NLRB Files Suit Against Amazon for Illegal Termination of Employee Involved in Strike
June 24, 2024 – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, located in Seattle, alleging that the company “illegally disciplined and terminated an employee” who had assisted in organizing a strike last May to protest new return-to-office directives issued by Amazon early last year. According to the NLRB complaint, Amazon…
Amazon Ditches Plastic Cushions, Adopts Paper-Based Recycled Materials for Packaging in North America
June 24, 2024 – Amazon announced last Thursday that it has removed 95% of plastic air cushions from its packaging in North America, replacing them with paper-based dunnage made from 100% recycled materials. This marks Amazon’s largest plastic packaging reduction initiative in North America, aiding in the elimination of nearly 15 billion plastic air cushions…
Matt Garman Named as Successor to Adam Selipsky, AWS’s Prolific CEO
May 15, 2024 – Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon, is poised for a new era of leadership following the announcement by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, that Adam Selipsky, the current CEO of AWS, will step down from his post after a three-year tenure. Selipsky, aged 57, who has been…
Amazon Unveils Record-Breaking Text-to-Speech Model: BASE TTS
February 18, 2024 – Amazon’s artificial intelligence research team has announced the development of what is claimed to be the largest text-to-speech model ever created, boasting the highest number of parameters and utilizing the most extensive training dataset to date. Details of the model’s development and training process have been outlined in a paper published…
Amazon Prime Video Launches Ads in the US, Anticipating a New Revenue Boom
January 30, 2024 – Amazon has reportedly begun rolling out advertisements on its Prime Video service in the United States, a move that is anticipated to open up a new revenue stream for the retail giant. Industry experts are estimating that this new venture could generate up to 5billionannuallyforAmazononcefullyimplemented.Ofthissum,3 billion is expected to come directly…
Amazon Unveils Stable AWS SDKs for Kotlin and Rust Developers
December 04, 2023 – Amazon has officially launched AWS SDKs specifically tailored for Rust and Kotlin programming languages, announcing that the SDKs have reached a stable stage and are ready for production use. AWS SDKs, provided by Amazon, are a suite of development tools that enable developers to create, deploy, and manage applications on the…
Invisible Guardians: Amazon’s Watermark Solution for AI-Generated Images
December 01, 2023 – Amazon Unveils Innovative “Titan” AI Models at re:Invent Conference Amazon made significant waves at the recent re:Invent conference with the announcement of their latest trio of generative AI models under the “Titan” series. These groundbreaking models include the “Titan Image Generator,” the company’s maiden foray into image generation, the “Amazon Titan…
Amazon Surpasses UPS and FedEx: Dominating the U.S. Courier Landscape
November 29, 2023 – According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Amazon has now emerged as the largest courier company in the United States, surpassing both UPS and FedEx in parcel volume. Recent internal data from Amazon reveals that the e-commerce giant has, for the first time, exceeded its competitors in annual delivery…
Comixology’s Sunset: Amazon’s Shift to Kindle Platform by December 4th
November 16, 2023 – In early 2022, Amazon shuttered the web version of Comixology, an e-book application primarily designed for reading American comics. Today, Amazon has initiated notifications to Comixology users, announcing the imminent closure of the application on December 4th. Users are urged to migrate their comic collections to the Amazon Kindle platform. Amazon…