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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Tuesday he would stand aside later this year as chief executive of the company he built from a startup into one of the world’s most valuable firms. The world’s richest person based on his Amazon stake, Bezos said he will transition to the role of executive chair in the third
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By Nkiruka Nnorom Aella App, a single point financial service and payment solutions organization, is working with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) to empower under-banked individuals to have quicker access to credit and other financial services using Amazon Rekognition for identity verification. Amazon Rekognition is a fully managed computer vision services that enables developers to
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France’s CNIL data privacy watchdog slapped 135 million euros in fines on US tech titans Google and Amazon for placing advertising cookies on users’ computers without consent. The 100-million-euro fine against Google is the largest sanction the regulator has ever imposed, which it justified by the fact 90 percent of French internet users use the
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Internet giant Amazon is in talks to buy podcast publisher Wondery, which serves up hit audio shows “Dr Death” and “Serial,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. West Hollywood-based Wondery boasts being the world’s largest independent podcast publisher and has reportedly also explored the potential for acquisition with Apple and Sony Music Entertainment. Industry
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Amazon says it will invest $10 billion for its planned space-based internet delivery system after winning US regulatory approval to deploy more than 3,000 low-orbit satellites. The US tech giant said on Thursday it is moving forward with its Project Kuiper, one of several systems planned to bring internet to customers without land-based connections. Project
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Roughly five hours after an internal email went out Friday to Amazon employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, the online retailing giant appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake. “This morning’s email to some of our employees was sent in error,” Amazon emailed reporters just before 5
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Amazonian tribe members in Ecuador released six people they had kidnapped to demand the release of the body of a leader killed by the coronavirus, the government said on Saturday. Two police officers, two soldiers, and two civilians were taken captive by the indigenous people on Thursday in the village of Kumay near the Peruvian
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Content streaming service providers, Netflix and Amazon, as well as pay television channels, iROKOtv and Africa Magic are considering halting further investments in the Nigerian content industry, Vanguard has learnt. The four platforms, Vanguard exclusively gathered, have been forced to consider discontinuation of investments in Nigeria because of the 6th Broadcast Code recently released by
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Content streaming service providers, Netflix and Amazon, as well as pay television channels, Irokotv and AfricaMagic are considering halting further investments in the Nigerian content industry, Vanguard has learned. The four platforms, Vanguard exclusively gathered, have been forced to consider discontinuation of investments in Nigeria because of the 6th Broadcast Code recently released by the
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The fortunes of US billionaires rose 15 percent in the two months since the coronavirus pandemic hit, a study found, with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg seeing massive gains. The more than 600 billionaires in the United States became even richer as tech stocks rose during virus lockdowns, an analysis of
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