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A UK Digital Competition Expert Panel is calling for a web watch dog; Australia, the European Union and India are moving in on the tech titans, while US Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is building her campaign on a promise to break up big tech companies, Amazon, Google and Facebook.
Prof Amy Webb says only nine tech titans, three from China and the rest from the US are deciding the future of Artificial Intelligence for all of us.
One can draw a link between Edcon’s struggles and Amazon’s decision to close its US pop-up stores as it rethinks its bricks-and-mortar strategy.
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, wants to become a big seller of advertisements too, as Amazon expands its share of the online advertising market.
On Twitter last night, anti-establishment politician Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy to become American President in 2020.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s February got even worse yesterday when his group buckled to political resistance and dropped plans to build a new HQ in New York City.
The new leader of Google’s cloud-computing business plans to take on rivals Amazon.com and Microsoft, and race ahead in the market.
Total have struck a major deposit off the Cape. With a billion barrels of oil equivalent, the deposit could transform SA’s energy future.
Amazon has invested in high-profile autonomous-vehicle startup Aurora, giving the online retailer insight into the fast-developing world of driverless cars as it navigates its growing logistics operation.
A long-simmering feud between Trump and Bezos took a bizarre turn after the billionaire accused allies of the president of brazenly trying to extort him.