Amazon buys 11 aircraft from Delta and WestJet
Amazon has bought its first aircraft and is converting them from passenger to cargo planes.
Amazon has bought its first aircraft and is converting them from passenger to cargo planes.
The German market earned Amazon around €6.8bn in 2012 – however because of European tax rules, the company only paid €3m in taxes in the country. German politicians are now calling for a change in tax law.
Several big technology vendors are racing to build a fleet of big data centers that will enable them to offer more Internet-based services to consumers and enterprises in the next 5-10 years. See why they think they will be able to talk you out of running your own data center.
Over the past few months, I’ve been sampling all of the major U.S.-based competitors to the iTunes Music Store, as well as a few fascinating minor-league competitors. In this post, I’ll show you how each one stacks up against iTMS in terms of pricing and available features. After my testing was complete, I had a new favorite music service, and after you read my report you might decide it’s right for you too.
In the time it has taken SAP to fail to deliver its much-needed release, a rival SaaS product has gone through two release cycles. Vendors like SAP are boxed into a long-term strategy that hands all the initiative to a new generation of web-native competitors.
I'm live on the scene at Pace University in lower Manhattan for Amazon's rumored "large-format Kindle" press conference, set to begin at 10:30 EST.
The e-tailer reiterated its commitment to fighting climate change with renewable energy initiatives to launch worldwide.
David Gewirtz takes a hard look at how Amazon's upcoming fleet of custom-designed electric vehicles might create an extended retail distribution chain from the warehouse to the porch, and what that might mean for the billions of boxes littering our curbs.
Working with AWS partner Blazeclan, it can now deliver its data-as-a-service offerings more seamlessly.
By simply respecting existing laws, it should be possible to save a million square kilometers of rainforest by 2050 according to the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC). On the contrary, if nothing changes, two more million square kilometers will disappear.