Tag: Amazon

Amazon is now the world’s second most valuable company, overtaking Google’s parent Alphabet. The retail, technology, Web services – and soon delivery – company has...

US retailer Walmart has filed a raft of patents aimed at automating processes in the agriculture sector. Among them is a robotic solution to...

IBM has announced the launch of Watson Assistant, a digital assistant version of its Watson artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language conversation system. IBM said, "Watson...

Parcel delivery and logistics firm DHL said today that it is piloting a range of new connected technologies in the US, including collaborative robots,...

The retail and Web services giant is conquering the enterprise with its smart assistant, it says. With Alexa for Business, Amazon looked set to bring...

Shoppers at Co-op supermarkets will soon be able to checkout their own purchases via their smartphones, in a bid to avoid time-consuming queues. A new...

Amazon has bolstered its smart home offering with the acquisition of Ring, a California-based maker of video doorbells and security cameras, in a deal thought to...

Amazon Echo among devices from Netatmos, D-Link, Nokia, and Sonos found to raise privacy or security concerns. One device so insecure the vendor was...

Warehousing is no longer the dumb, static component in the supply chain, but an area that's ripe for smart transformation. Chris Middleton and Kayla...

NEWSBYTE: Microsoft has added integration with Web app/device service IFTTT to its Cortana AI assistant. Microsoft has been steadily improving Cortana's skills in the face...

Airbus’ unmanned drone delivery project, Skyways, has completed a successful demonstration flight in Singapore. A full-scale trial is pencilled in for later this year.  For an...

A perfect storm of societal changes and converging technologies is driving both innovation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the healthtech sector, says a...