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Amazon to cut jobs in Prime Video and Studio Operations
11 Jan 2024
In a significant move, Amazon.com has announced plans to lay off several hundred employees in its streaming and studio operations.
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Google urges UK antitrust intervention against Microsoft's cloud dominance
01 Dec 2023
Google has formally called upon the UK's antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), to intervene and take action against Microsoft.
Amazon announces the latest round of job cuts in recent layoffs
09 Nov 2023
E-commerce giant Amazon.com has confirmed that it has started to let go of some employees in its music division. This new round of job cuts is the latest among the many rounds prior to this that have affected over 27,000 people in the past year.
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Microsoft in negotiations for $1 billion cloud tools deal with Amazon
18 Oct 2023
Microsoft wants to bring Amazon.com, as a customer, the 365 cloud productivity tools. The deal between them would reportedly be worth around $1 billion.
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Tech giants Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare were attacked by the largest ever denial of service operation
12 Oct 2023
Major tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare have encountered the internet’s biggest ever denial-of-service attack.
How will the new rule changes by the European Commission affect the tech giants?
07 Sep 2023
On Wednesday, 6 September 2023, the European Commission unveiled a list of service providers that meet the criteria for inclusion within the scope
Amazon launches air cargo service for its `prime’ customers
30 Jan 2023
Amazon Air will utilise the cargo capacity of two Boeing 737-800 aircrafts operated by Quikjet Cargo Airlines to ship thousands of packages every day and fly across Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai
NCLAT upholds CCI order against Amazon-FCPL deal
15 Jun 2022
Delhi High Court halts Amazon-Future arbitration
07 Jan 2022
The HC order puts an end to Amazon’s scheme of using the terms of its $200 million investment in Future Group in 2019 to block the Kishore Biyani-owned company's attempt to sell retail assets to Reliance Industries
Amazon has been dodging India's regulators all the while: report
19 Feb 2021
While Amazon has been harping on its more than $5.5 billion investment in India and how it provided an online platform for 400,000-plus Indian sellers, in reality, some 33 Amazon sellers accounted for about a third of the value of all goods sold on the company’s website
Amazon to make TV streaming device in India
19 Feb 2021
SAT stays Sebi ban on Future group promoters from securities market
19 Feb 2021
The SAT order comes as a big relief to the Future Retail CEO, who is beng haunted by US online retailer Amazon over alleged violation of conditions of an agreement relating to the sale of its assets to Amazon Inc
CCI approves Future-Reliance deal
24 Nov 2020
The CCI approval for the Future Group-Reliance Group deal comes as a huge setback for US e-commerce giant Amazon, which is seeking to enforce an arbitration award from a Singapore court restraining the parties from implementing the deal
Amazon gets Singapore arbitrator to stall Future-Reliance deal
26 Oct 2020
Reliance Industries said RRVL has entered into the transaction for acquisition of assets and business of Future Retail Limited under proper legal advice and that the rights and obligations are fully enforceable under Indian Law
Verizon, Amazon eye $4 bn stake in Vodafone Idea: report
04 Sep 2020
Acquisition of a majority stake in Vodafone Idea would help Amazon set up competition against Reliance Industries while it would open up a market for Verizon’s 5G telecom offerings
Amazon’s Q2 net income doubles to $5.2 billion
03 Aug 2020
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