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As part of its virtual Alexa Live event this week, Amazon announced over 50 new Alexa features for developers.

Amazon’s Halo health wearable now supports the Movement Health feature that the online giant announced at the beginning of June.

Amazon today announced Reading Sidekick, a new Alexa feature that requires an Amazon Kids+ subscription and reads books along with kids.

Interested developers can now register for Amazon’s Alexa Live 2021 virtual event, which will be held on July 21 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET.

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives today introduced several bipartisan bills aimed at curbing and even reversing the power of Big Tech.

An internal Amazon memo says that employees will be required to come to the office at least three days each week as the pandemic winds down.

Amazon announced this morning that it will acquire the MGM for $8.45 billion, significantly enhancing its online content strategy.

Amazon will host a free, live virtual event aimed at Alexa skill builders, device makers, startups, and business leaders on July 21.

Responding to today’s Apple news, Amazon is making HD and lossless music available to Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers at no extra cost.

Amazon today announced new versions of its Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 smart displays and introduced a new Echo Show 5 Kids edition.

The EU General Court this morning overruled a 2017 judgment that ordered Amazon to pay $300 million in unpaid taxes.

The Pentagon may pull the plug on Microsoft’s $10 billion JEDI contract thanks to incessant litigation from Amazon.

Amazon announced today that Alexa Show Mode is now available on Windows 10, but only on select Lenovo PCs.

And you thought Apple’s financials were hard to explain. Amazon just delivered a net income of $8.1 billion on revenues of $108.5 billion, a record for the first quarter.

Amazon today announced new versions of its Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus tablets, plus a Productivity Bundle that includes one year of Microsoft 365 Personal.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos today delivered his 2020 letter to shareholders, spilling the beans on some new milestones.

The new second-generation version of Amazon’s Echo Buds earbuds is smaller and lighter than its predecessor and offers better sound.

In partnership with Microsoft, Amazon now lets customers directly download Xbox Game Pass titles using the Alexa smart assistant.

Amazon isn’t buying into the work-from-home future and it expects all of its employees to return to the office by this fall, with some coming back in the summer.

Amazon announced this morning that Alexa Conversations is now available for developers to use in the United States.

As part of its quarterly earnings report today, Amazon announced that founder Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of the online retailer later this year.

Well, here we go again. For my second look at an M1-based Mac, I’m evaluating the 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro, which retails for $1299.

Amazon announced this week that it is purchasing award-winning podcast studio Wondery for an undisclosed sum that is likely north of $300 million.

When it launched in early access in October, Amazon’s Luna game streaming service was available on Fire TVs, Windows PCs, Macs, and iPhone/iPad.

Amazon announced today that its Fire TV streaming platform now has over 50 million monthly active users (MAUs).

Amazon alerted users of its Alexa-powered devices that it will soon enable a potentially dangerous new service called Sidewalk. You may want to disable it.

A group of technology companies that includes Microsoft has filed a motion in Google’s antitrust case to keep their data private from the search giant.