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Amazon vows to replenish all the water it uses for data centres

Currently, AWS relies on recycled water for 20 of its data centres

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Amazon’s new chip moves AWS into high-performance computing

Amazon says making its own chips will give customers more cost-effective computing power than they could get by renting time on processors

Amazon, Meta join ranks of tech companies slashing thousands of jobs

Amazon, Meta join ranks of tech companies slashing thousands of jobs

In recent earnings reports, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and others fell short of projections, sending shares plunging and shaving hundreds of billions of dollars from their market valuations

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Amazon’s new warehouse robot could one day replace humans

Amazon employs hundreds of thousands of workers, whose dexterity and intuition currently let them pick and pack items more quickly and more reliably than existing machines

Amazon opens its new corporate office in Riyadh

Amazon opens its new corporate office in Riyadh

With the opening of the new office, Amazon is also working to launch an initiative to empower and train Saudi talent

AMAZON LAUNCHES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACCELERATOR IN THE UAE

Amazon launches intellectual property accelerator in UAE to help SMBs trademark their brand

The IP Accelerator connects SMBs with a network of curated intellectual property law firms for trademark registration and advisory services

Kyndryl

IBM spinoff Kyndryl is betting on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google for growth

The spinoff left Kyndryl with 90,000 employees and a large chunk of the legacy infrastructure services business that had been a drag on growth for IBM before the split

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Apple lays off recruiters as part of its slowdown in hiring

Apple is still retaining recruiters who are full-time employees and not all of its contractors were fired as part of the move

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Even tech giants like Amazon and Meta can’t escape the slowdown

With many of the biggest tech giants poised to report earnings in the next two weeks, investors are bracing for mostly bad news

Inside the Amazon Abu Dhabi Delivery Station

Inside Amazon’s largest delivery station in the UAE

Gulf Business recently visited Amazon’s largest delivery station in Abu Dhabi to get the details

Fintechs

Why bank and tech giants are losing their experts to fintechs

Significant numbers of employees are moving from tech firms like Amazon.com and Microsoft to fintech companies

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Amazon opens its largest delivery station in Abu Dhabi

The 4,700sqm delivery station is the second largest in the country and provides same-day and next-day deliveries to customers

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Amazon backs Saudi entrepreneurs to establish logistics startups

The programme aims to establish more than 30 new startups and create hundreds of job opportunities during the first three years

Revealed: 74% of UAE’s online shoppers to spend more in 2022

In the report, online shoppers were surveyed, to understand their shopping behaviour, including how they are using Amazon and Noon

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Amazon invests $10m in EFG Hermes, may convert to 4.255% stake in subsidiary valU

ValU has a current post-money valuation $235m

Boeing taps Amazon, Microsoft and Google for cloud mega-deal

The multiyear agreements are intended to upgrade the company’s current system of hosting and maintaining software applications

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Microsoft Defender security expands to support Google cloud

Microsoft Defender will include support for Google Cloud starting Wednesday, three months after adding support for Amazon’s products

Amazon poised for biggest ever market value gain a day after Facebook’s loss

The surge in Amazon’s stock price came after sales in its cloud computing business beat Wall Street estimates

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Amazon leads corporate clean-energy purchases in record year

Amazon accounted for 20 per cent of a record 31.1 gigawatts of clean power capacity bought by corporations in 2021

Amazon University Esports to expand to UAE, Saudi Arabia with MENATech

This will be UAE’s and Saudi Arabia’s first educational esports league

Anghami

Anghami delivers new interactive experience with Amazon Alexa

Alexa will offer UAE and Saudi Arabia customers localised language experience in Khaleeji Arabic as well as in English

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Amazon brings Alexa, compatible with English and Arabic, to the UAE

Amazon has also opened bookings for range of new Echo devices in the UAE, which will start shipping on December 14

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Amazon working on large wall Echo, sound bar and new auto device

The tech giant is working on the initiatives at its Lab126 division, which created hit products like the original Echo and the Alexa voice assistant

Amazon seeks used long-range cargo jets able to fly from China

The company is seeking 10 Airbus A330-300 aircraft, as well as crews to fly them

Noon.com to raise $2bn from backers including Saudi’s PIF

The investments from the Public Investment Fund and others will be used to upgrade infrastructure and help speed up deliveries

Amazon to create 1,500 new jobs in UAE to support growing network

The company plans to create career opportunities across the technology, analytics, and supply chain spaces, among others

Game-changers: Top 10 tech executives across MENA

As organisations across the MENA region march ahead with technology-centric transformations, we profile 10 senior executives from global technology firms with a substantial presence in the region, and who play an influential role in the regional tech industry

B2B

What the region’s B2B businesses can learn from B2C models

Involving your customer in your product-development cycle is a strong start

Bitcoin drops after posting biggest weekly gain in three months

The declines put Bitcoin back in the top end of a $30,000 to $40,000 trading range

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Why constant change must be the new normal for enterprises

While the new breed of business that has emerged from the pandemic recognises its ability to be more agile, it must not take its eye off the issues at hand