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Amazon joins Apple in the $1 trillion club. That's two $1 trillion businesses that started off in a garage.

Microsoft has a new friend: Walmart. The target? Amazon.

Microsoft lost a lot of its top executives and directors to Amazon in the recent years as the software giant shifts its focus away from the consumer.

You will soon be able to control your hotel room, and access hotel services with Amazon's new Alexa for Hospitality platform.

Today, Amazon announced the Fire TV Cube, an interesting hybrid of its Fire TV set-top boxes and Echo smart speakers.

In a long-awaited---and, frankly, long-overdue---move, Amazon will raise the price of its Prime subscription from $99 to $119.

Amazon announced this week that it is opening up Alexa skills creation to non-programmers via a new tool called Alexa Skill Blueprints.

The normally secretive Amazon has finally detailed a key metric of its success: It now has over 100 million Prime subscribers.

Amazon releases new, lite Android browser in India for cheap Android devices to save storage.

In celebration of World Book Day, Amazon is offering nine Kindle e-books of translated fiction for free.

Amazon is offering big discounts on its entry-level Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite e-book readers to Prime members.

Retailer says that Amazon Music Unlimited is now the third-largest streaming music service behind Spotify and Apple Music.

Amazon.com this week surpassed Alphabet/Google to become the world's second-largest corporation by market capitalization.

Microsoft is still working to make Cortana/Alexa integration a reality but they are making progress to finally deliver the feature.

Sonos is bringing back support for Audible to its speakers today, and it's giving new users a free audiobook, too.

Amazon's $1 billion purchase of smart home security firm Ring is big news, but it could result in a chilling new era of fragmentation.

Amazon's excellent customer service plays as big a role in the firm's success as its aggressive business tactics.

Amazon adds two key features to Live TV with the latest Fire TV update as the company pushes forward with its cord-cutting service.

Amazon is bringing its Alexa smart assistant to Windows 10 in partnership with the world's largest Windows device makers.

In August of 2017, Microsoft and Amazon said Alexa/Cortana integration would arrive by the end of the year but both companies missed their public deadline.

I often complain about Microsoft's aversion to hard numbers. Well, Amazon is even worse.

Based on app downloads, Amazon had a very strong holiday season with its Alexa products but Google may not be far behind.

Amazon Prime: Come for the free shipping, but stay for the ever-expanding list of digital perks.

Yesterday, I discussed how I don't really take advantage of many of Amazon's digital services. But wait, there's more.

I am probably one of Amazon's best customers, but I don't really take advantage of their consumer tech products and services.

Even Microsoft was able to ship a smart speaker in 2017. How do you like them Apples?

Today, Amazon launched an inexpensive new member of its Fire TV family of products aimed at the many markets in which Alexa is not available.