Topic: Amazon
Apple and Amazon show the contradictions in India’s quest to lure foreign investment
Successes such as Foxconn aside, tales of frustrated plans & bureaucratic bottlenecks are holding India back from a China-1990s-style boom.
Netflix, Tinder, Amazon all have automated algorithms. So, do humans have a choice anymore?
Eighty per cent of viewing hours streamed on Netflix and 35 per cent of Amazon’s sales originate from automated recommendations.
Catch them if you can: The soaring business of downing drones
Companies specialising in detecting and taking down wayward drones are poised to make billions in the future, filled with consumer drones.
Thousands of Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa
Amazon's team comprises employees under non-disclosure contracts working in outposts like Boston, Costa Rica, India and Romania and processing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift.
Mukesh Ambani is making tiny deals to take on Amazon & Walmart
Ambani has spent $2.5 billion on more than two dozen deals as he puts together the building blocks to take on Amazon & Walmart.
Latest Facebook data leak exposes dilemma cloud storage services like Amazon face
Amazon is in a sticky situation, for if it starts shutting down access to data breaches, it could open itself to lawsuits and risk broken trust with clients.
Data of millions of Facebook users shows up on Amazon cloud servers
The discovery shows that a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, companies that control that information haven’t done enough to seal up private data.
Walmart’s usual victims in America become its new friends in India
Small stores or kiranas will be Walmart’s unlikely allies in its latest attempt to take on Amazon & Reliance in India.
Sundar Pichai meets US General today amid military jitters over Google’s AI push in China
Google invited General Joseph Dunford for talks after he said the firm's AI work in China 'indirectly benefits the Chinese military'.
Apple’s reinvention as a services company starts for real today
Tim Cook is expected to unveil streaming video & news subscriptions as Apple pushes to transform itself into a leading digital services provider.
Why Dimple Yadav touching Mayawati’s feet still riles upper caste Indians
Dimple Yadav’s gesture challenges the class system of Hindu society which categorises women and backwards of all castes as low and inferior.
Budgam friendly fire: Should charge of culpable homicide be on the table in the fog of war?
A senior IAF officer and 3 other personnel could be booked for “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” in the February Mi-17 helicopter downing.
Defence
IAF men face action in Kashmir Mi-17 chopper crash as probe ‘almost confirms’ friendly fire
Six IAF personnel, one civilian were killed as an Mi-17 chopper was shot down in Kashmir on 27 February while Indian and Pakistan air forces were locked in a dogfoght 100 km away.
Pracharak Modi: The mask you see, is the man you get
India has its first leader who is unapologetic about belonging to the social and political Right. This is how Shekhar Gupta foresaw Modi’s five years in this National Interest within three months of his victory in 2014.