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Seattle based data storage company Qumulo has announced support for the Amazon Nimble Studio.>>

Microsoft, Shell, GoDaddy, MobiKwik — these are just some of the high-profile company's on the receiving end of sophisticated attacks, writes Bitglass senior director of marketing Jonathan Andresen.>>

Bezos will transition to the role of executive chair in Q3 2021, with current Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos at that time.>>

Five years since it last held top spot, Apple has overtaken Amazon and Google.>>

$1.3 trillion was added to the top 25 global technology companies’ cumulative market capitalisation in Q3 2020 alone.>>

The updates to the machine learning platform aim to meet the needs of existing ML developers and reduce barrier-to-entry for new users.>>

Amazon has updated its Echo and Echo Dot smart speakers. Darren Price takes a look.>>

Chromebooks were the best performing client PC product in Q3, as shipments grew 122% to a total of 9.4 million – tablets are making a comeback.>>

Global platform vendors have released new smart speakers and displays, ensuring value and availability.>>

Amazon has made an equity investment in Cohesity and together the companies are releasing a new DMaaS offering on AWS. >>

The retail giant has a 125% lead over its closest rival Alibaba, which saw 10.9% growth in Q2. Quarter-on-quarter market capitalisation growth was also seen across all top 25 publicly traded global retailers, according to new research from GlobalData.>>

The top 5 IaaS providers accounted for 80% of the total worldwide market in 2019, according to a new report from Gartner.>>

Google and Amazon were the most imitated brands in phishing attempts for the second quarter of 2020, according to Check Point. >>

Amazon Australia has announced the launch of Amazon Launchpad Innovation Grants, an initiative to recognise innovation by Australian startups, entrepreneurs and SMBs. >>

The projects in China, Australia, and the U.S. will total 615 MWh. Comes as Amazon criticised for conditions and lack of paid sick leave in U.S.>>

The cloud giant says Kendra uses its machine learning framework to provide high-quality results to ‘natural language’ queries, as opposed to the more common search function which pulls a list of links in response to keywords.>>

Provides out-of-the-box support for Amazon EventBridge, offering Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Boomi customers.>>

IDC's research indicates that global shipments have fallen to 24.6 million units, down 18.1% year-over-year during the first quarter of 2020.>>

Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa, takes up residence in the Echo Show 8.>>

Slack has reported that in the past seven weeks, more than 7,000 new companies have signed up to Slack as remote working becomes the new norm. >>

“Markets [in which] smart speakers are booming saw the most significant year-on-year growth.”>>

For the second year, it made the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator list by Clarivate Analytics, which includes giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google.>>

Data centers are now a cornerstone of the information economy, with USD$100 billion having been poured into the asset class over the past decade.>>

"The amount of exposed records that we're seeing today means that cybercriminals are getting their hands on more keys to our homes and businesses.”>>