It’s part of an initiative called “Alexa for Everyone,” which Amazon has described as an effort to make the voice assistant more usable by people with disabilities, older customers and family caregivers. But as with many accessibility features, it could also see broader adoption by the larger population of users.
It's unclear if such measures will be enough to calm the market's long-term fears, especially after the Dow shed more than 2,000 point Monday. But for now, all indexes are up.
It’s not clear why communities in those states chose to not to participate in the competition. It’s possible that anti-corporate sentiment played a role or they could have been off-put by the company’s preference for government incentives. Arkansas’ abstention is likely tied to a chief Amazon rival headquartered in Bentonville: Walmart.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the big April 2011 Amazon Web Services outage. But we figured the anniversary of that painful week would be a good time to provide an update on our experiences since we got knocked offline for several days.
Its prowess in super computers also helped scientists from Saudi Arabia map the genome of the date palm, whose fruit is a staple food in the region. It has also established cooperation with more than a string of countries on tax informatization.
Its CAREC 2030 strategy, unanimously adopted on Oct 27 by member countries in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, shows the region is ready to fully achieve its enormous potential by connecting its people, policies, and projects. I see four key ways in which it can create the conditions for future growth, stability, and prosperity.
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It’s New York’s insatiable appetite to be perceived as players on the world stage of tech. I was reminded of this frustration this week when Seattle venture capitalist Chris DeVore emailed me a story from Crain’s New York Business with the headline “Tech Takes Over,” and a subhead declaring that New York is the “sector’s official second city.”
JD's American depositary receipts fell .87 per share, or 5.97 percent, to close at .43 per share in Nasdaq trading, its lowest share price since February 2017, after Liu was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States, on suspicion of criminal sexual misconduct and later released without any charges or bail.
JD, China's second-largest e-commerce player, is also ramping up its efforts in drone logistics. On Monday, it formally opened a drone delivery station in Hainan province. In February, the CAAC approved JD's experimental drone deliveries in a pilot zone in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province.
It’s been a good day for Amazon and its quest to acquire Whole Foods Market for .7 billion.