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Automotive
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Amazon Signs Green Hydrogen Supply Deal With Plug Power

Plug Power Inc has signed a deal with Amazon.com Inc to supply liquid green hydrogen, the companies said on Thursday, sending the hydrogen fuel cell maker’s shares up over 12% in early trade. Green hydrogen is often touted as the future of energy, as the…

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E-Tailing
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Amazon to invest in Japanese beauty retailer Istyle

Amazon.com will invest in istyle, the company behind the @cosme review and retail site, gaining access to the Japanese beauty product vendor’s trove of user reviews. Under the agreement announced Monday, istyle will issue 2.5 billion yen ($18.7 million) in…

Alexa Voice
Electronics
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Amazon has a plan to make Alexa mimic anyone’s voice

Amazon is planning to come up with a way that will help Alexa voice assistant users to speak to their family members, even after they’ve died. As per TechCrunch, the online retailer announced its plan about developing a system to let Alexa mimic any voice…

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Apple and Amazon spoke with Electronic Arts about a potential acquisition

Gaming studios are being acquired left, right and center. Microsoft announced in January that it had reached a deal to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion and Sony followed a couple of weeks later with a deal to acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion. Now,…

Amazon India
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Amazon tipoff leads to Chinese seizure of counterfeit luxury belts

Chinese authorities have seized hundreds of counterfeit belts bearing the Salvatore Ferragamo brand with the aid of Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU). The belt is one of Ferragamo’s most known accessories – its link-shaped buckle is used by the brand as…

Amazon India
E-Tailing
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Amazon Singapore offers staff mental health support

Amazon Singapore has today launched a new mental health benefits package that provides its employees and their families with personalised, convenient, and confidential mental health and well-being support. The new service provides holistic mental well-being…

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E-Tailing
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Shareholders urge Amazon to boost tax transparency

Twenty-four Amazon investors are urging the tech giant to step up transparency in tax disclosures and adopt a new reporting standard, the Financial Times said on Sunday. Asset managers Nordea, Royal London, and several large European and U.S. pension funds…

Amazon India
General
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Amazon to close physical bookstores

Amazon is closing most of its physical stores, the company announced today, with all 68 of its Amazon Books, Amazon 4-Star, and Amazon Pop Up locations across the US and the UK set to close while the company refocuses on its grocery and fashion stores. Amazon…

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E-Tailing
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Amazon sues alleged fake review brokers AppSally and Rebatest

Amazon is suing two websites that allegedly used their networks of more than 900,000 users to post fake reviews to e-commerce marketplaces. AppSally and Rebatest operate as “fake review brokers,” Amazon said in an announcement. In AppSally’s case, the website…

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General
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Amazon Luna subscribers can now start games directly from Twitch

Amazon has done something that Google either couldn’t or subsequently decided not to do. That is to increase the integration between its cloud gaming service and its video platform by making the games on the gaming service directly accessible from the…

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Telecom
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M1 partners with AWS to improve customer experiences

M1 Limited (M1), one of Singapore’s leading Mobile Network Operators (MNO), announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to launch Maxine, a VoiceBot for M1’s hotlines. Maxine is built on Amazon Connect, AWS’s omnichannel cloud-based contact…

Central Watson
General
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AS Watson expanding online presence with Amazon Singapore

This will launch an extensive product range and offer free scheduled delivery. Amazon Singapore and Watsons entered a partnership to launch a wider range of beauty, health, and personal care products on Amazon.sg through a dedicated storefront. According to…

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Automotive
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Amazon Will Be The First Customer For The RAM ProMaster EV

Stellantis owned RAM is also slated to go EV first sometime by the end of the decade. Stellantis announced a bunch of partnerships at CES especially big ones with Amazon, but hidden within them was a footnote around RAM’s upcoming ProMaster electric van which…

Stellantis
E-Tailing
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Amazon And Stellantis Partner To Deploy Smarter Cars, Cleaner Vans

Amazon.com Inc and Stellantis NV said Wednesday they will collaborate to develop cars and trucks with Amazon software in the dashboards and deploy electric vans made by Stellantis on Amazon’s delivery network. The agreements expand Amazon’s efforts to get a…