A few months ago I published an article about the pros and cons of DevOps as a Service. There I mentioned AWS and Google Cloud Platform as the main platforms that are frequently used by DevOps. Why can’t we make a small comparison for them? Sure, there’s also Microsoft Azure among the giants. But I’ll try […]

Many big technology companies are in quiet periods leading up to their next earnings reports, but it’s still been a fairly busy morning in the tech space. Here are the top five stories you need to know for Thursday. Chinese hacking concerns for Apple and Amazon Bloomberg reports that Chinese operatives were able to insert malicious […]

AI voice assistant will soon give users with connected smart home devices reminders to lock doors and turn off lights Amazon says its AI voice assistant Alexa can now guess what you might be thinking of – or what you’ve forgotten. At an event in Seattle on Thursday, the technology company unveiled a new feature called […]

The practice, which is a violation of the company’s policy, is particularly strong in China, according to The Wall Street Journal. Amazon said on Monday it was investigating suspected internal leaks of confidential information by its employees for bribes to remove fake reviews and other seller scams from its website. Amazon employees are offering internal […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A Senate hearing about reforming the U.S. Postal Service that could have scrutinized what Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and others pay for package delivery has been delayed, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, moving back President Donald Trump’s effort to hike the world’s largest online retailer’s rates Trump has repeatedly […]

Amazon remains unstoppable. The company accounts for nearly half of all online retail sales in the United States. It continues expanding its brick-and-mortar retail footprint through Whole Foods, Amazon bookstores and new checkout-free convenience locations. And every new venture, from advertising to cloud computing to, perhaps soon, healthcare, almost invariably becomes a billion-dollar business. Wall Street expects that dominance to continue […]

If you are intrigued by the work big tech companies are doing but don’t necessarily have the skills to be a programmer, data scientist or engineer, good news: You can still score a job at these firms. According to a recent study by careers site Glassdoor, 43 percent of open positions at tech companies are for non-tech roles […]

Happy July 16, better known as Amazon Prime Day! Amazon has actually created the 36-hour day. Prime Day extends from Monday, July 16 at 3PM EST until end of day Tuesday, July 17 (for those on the East Coast, 3 a.m. Wednesday) for your shopping pleasure. (Deals may sell out and you may get an […]

Amazon.com will not be the only place to get Prime Day pricing. A few major chains say they plan to match the online giant’s low prices during the 36-hour members-only shopping extravaganza, which kicks off at 3 p.m. ET Monday. Bed Bath & Beyond, J.C. Penney, Lowe’s and JOANN Stores say they will match Amazon’s prices in most cases. […]

Laura Desmond Blockchain is now an official word in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Of course, the FinTech industry doesn’t have to look it up, but the dictionary now defines blockchain as a technology that enables the keeping of records of financial transactions in a digital database as part of a publicly accessible network. The addition of blockchain to […]