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Facebook, Google and Microsoft could be boiled down to one factor
Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and Palantir, says the success of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft could be boiled down to one factor — they are monopolies. …
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Amazon to face strikes and protests from thousands of workers across 40 countries
Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers across about 40 countries plan to take part in protests and walkouts to coincide with Black Friday sales, one of the busiest days of the …
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Amazon budgets R17 billion a year on movies for cinemas
Amazon plans to spend more than $1 billion (R16.94 billion) a year to produce movies that it will release in theatres, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, the …
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Amazon’s Alexa division faces significant job cuts after failing to turn the voice assistant into a money maker, Business Insider reports (the article requires a VPN to access from South Africa and …
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Amazon develops new robot in a bid to reduce human reliance
Amazon, Ecommerce Giant has developed a robot capable of identifying and handling individual items, a milestone in the e-commerce giant’s efforts to reduce its reliance on the human order pickers …
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Amazon is the first public company to lose $1 trillion in market value
Amazon.com Inc. is the world’s first public company to lose a trillion dollars in market value as a combination of rising inflation, tightening monetary policies and disappointing earnings updates triggered …
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Big win for Amazon’s new headquarters in South Africa
The developers behind the R4.6-billion multi-purpose complex in Cape Town set to house Amazon’s new African headquarters scored a major court win on Tuesday. The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed …
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Apple TV+ and Apple Music face price hike in South Africa
Apple Inc. increased prices for its music and TV+ services for the first time, citing rising licensing costs, a move that risks giving rivals an edge in a fiercely competitive …
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Amazon Cape Town headquarters battles over speaker for First Nation Tribe
Amazon in it’ controversial R4.6 Billion development is experiencing a battle in Western Cape High Court over who can speak for a First Nations tribe. The development, at the confluence …