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• How Ring went from Shark Tank reject to Amazon’s $1B acquisition

  Just five years ago, wireless doorbell company, Doorbot -- now Amazon’s billion-dollar Ring -- was a team of eight struggling ...

  • Camille Charluet

• Amazon has discontinued the Mayday button on its Fire tablets

  Mayday! Mayday!

  • Matthew Hughes

• Microsoft reportedly developing cashierless store to rival Amazon

  Microsoft appears to be working on tech to build cashier-less stores, to which end it's reportedly spoken with everyone's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook accused of sharing data with Apple, Samsung, and Amazon

  The opprobrium over Facebook's data privacy practices continues. This time, the New York Times reports Facebook has apparently shared an inappropriate amount of user information with device manufacturers, such as Apple, Samsung, and Amazon. The details: According to the NYT, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Amazon can't explain why Alexa recorded and shared a private conversation

  A Portland couple says Alexa secretly recorded them, then sent that recording to a random person on their contact's list. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Amazon's facial recognition is now aiding US law enforcement

  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today released documents indicating Amazon is deeply involved in government surveillance ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Amazon's Alexa gets new voices like Google Assistant (kinda)

  Amazon is announcing the roll out of eight new free voices for Alexa Skills developers. It's not quite the big splash that ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Seattle's new 'Amazon tax' should serve as a model for all major cities

  Seattle's City Council recently approved a measure to impose new taxes on the city's largest employers. Under the new law, companies earning more than $20 million in annual revenue would be required to pay $275 per employee each year. Amazon's share alone could bring in more than ...

  • Bryan Clark

• The online stores of the future will look more like Netflix than Amazon

  This interview is part of our series of Growth Stories. We interviewed the founders and CEOs of 20 of the fastest growing startups in Europe. We asked them about their companies, their companies’ culture, and their lives, trying to understand how these three factors played a role ...

  • Davide Banis

• Amazon teases 'Fire TV Cube' that might double as an Echo

  What is it? Amazon is teasing the release of a mysterious new 'Fire TV Cube' on its very website. Well, maybe not that mysterious; based on previous leaks, it appears the device is a small set-top box that combines Amazon's TV offerings with the Echo's voice assistant capabilities. The ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Amazon announces new Echo Dot and Alexa features for kids

  Amazon is announcing a Kid's Edition for the Echo Dot and a FreeTime service which brings a content overhaul designed specifically ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The people in Amazon's car delivery promo, ranked by how gladly we'd give them our keys

  Oh that dastardly Amazon. First it upends the book industry, then it turns Bezos from a nerd into some sort of killer robot from the future, and now (in the US at least) it wants to drop loads off in your boot. No, not that, I mean, the company wants to put a package in your trunk. ...

  • Callum Booth