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Amazon launches platform to build apps for ‘Internet of Things’

October 8, 2015 creative amazon, amazon-com, battery-life, cloud, help-customers, photo, requesting-ways, sands-expo, social-media, social-network, tragic-news, warsaw

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc's cloud business, Amazon Web Services, has launched a service to help customers build applications to connect devices through the cloud, the so-called “Internet of Things”. The service, called “AWS IoT”, will allow factory floors, vehicles, health care systems, household appliances among other “things” to connect through cloud services, the company said on Thursday

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In big shift, online retailer Jet.com drops membership fee

October 7, 2015 creative amazon, amazon-com, jet-com, nearly-three, online, others-on-price, public, the-online, the-public, upstart, wednesday

(Reuters) – Jet.com, the online retailer founded by former Amazon.com executive Marc Lore, said on Wednesday that it dropped its $50 annual membership fee, marking a shift in business strategy for the upstart as it seeks to undercut Amazon and others on price.

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Google tests mobile instant publishing service to rival Facebook, Apple

October 7, 2015 admin alphabet, amazon, amazon-com, currently-piloting, jet-com, nearly-three, news-at-google, others-on-price, program-called, richard-gingras, the-online, the-public, wednesday

Google announced on Wednesday it is piloting a program called Accelerated Mobile Pages that allows users to search for news and pull up a host of articles from publishers instantly. “This is a deal-less environment,” Richard Gingras, head of news at Google, said at a media event announcing the program.

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Amazon quietly shutters product ads that drove traffic to outside sites

August 11, 2015 admin amazon-com, announcement, colorado, match, payne-as-saying, programme, specific-items, the-executive, the-retailer, tinder-blatt

By Mari Saito SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc quietly shuttered a pay-per-click advertising programme that allowed businesses to divert traffic from the retailer's platform to their own websites on Tuesday, saying it would permanently discontinue the programme in October. The programme allowed many businesses that are not necessarily sellers on Amazon's online marketplace to buy ad space on its website

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Amazon launches one-hour delivery service in London

June 30, 2015 publisher amazon, amazon-com, belt-at-amazon, defending, increase-e-book, london, obama, parcel-travels, president, president-barack, retirement, same-day-window, york

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc launched its one-hour order delivery service, Prime Now, for some areas of London on Tuesday, about six months after introducing the service in the United States. Amazon Prime members can have orders worth 20 pounds ($31.43) or more delivered in one hour for a fee of 6.99 pounds, the company said on its UK website on Tuesday.

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Google launches a YouTube built for gamers

June 12, 2015 admin amazon-com, bringing-videos, european, european-engineering, gaming, gaming-service, live-streaming, said-on-friday, single-space, various-titles, zurich

(Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday that it is launching a live streaming gaming service called “YouTube Gaming”, creating a rival to Amazon.com Inc's Twitch service.

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Amazon’s Golden Globes give it new credibility in Hollywood

January 13, 2015 creative amazon, amazon-com, angeles, golden, golden-globe, initial, retailer-wants, said-on-monday, san, were-not

By Deepa Seetharaman and Piya Sinha-Roy SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc's success at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards may help it win over two key audiences: Hollywood’s A-list talent and the shopping customers the retailer wants to join its Prime membership program.