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Saturday, April 27, 2024
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Amazon is so last year. Instagram is turning the likes of Kim Kardashian into stores

With Instagram's Checkout, Facebook may just have created a high-end alternative to Amazon

Amazon to let Alexa users delete voice commands in privacy push

A set of updates offers users the ability to say ‘Alexa, delete everything I said today’, or, in a coming update, delete their most recent utterance.

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.

On Camera

Indira, Manmohan, Modi, all raised income inequality. Until Hindu fears took the driving seat

The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.