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Google X Reveals Project Wing: A Drone Emergency Delivery Service System

Google X unveils its latest project where a group of drones can deliver goods to people during emergency situations.

Amazon and Twitch

Antitrust Prompts Google to cancel Twitch Purchase

Amazon has one of its biggest deals ever by acquiring the rights to game-streaming service juggernaut, Twitch - a brand Google refused to come into terms with.

Amazon Buys Gameplay Broadcaster Twitch

E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. announced plans to buy video game broadcaster Twitch for $970 million, which is seen to be part of its effort to reach out to gamers and strengthen its web-hosting business.

Twitch

Amazon Acquires Twitch for US$970 Millionnt

Amazon acquires Twitch but will let the streaming site operate independently.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Amazon To Challenge Google In Online Ad With Own System

Amazon.com Inc. is looking to go toe-to-toe with Google in online advertising, with plans to launch its own system for ad placements based on its database of Web shoppers, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos holds up a Kindle Paperwhite

Amazon Doubles Storage Data of Kindle Paperwhite

Online retail giant Amazon, based in Seattle, Washington, has quietly upgraded the internal memory of its e-book reader, the Kindle Paperwhite, from the previous two gigabytes of storage to four gigabytes in models manufactured in the last 30 days.

Lee Child

Lee Child: Amazon Can Hire Scarlett Johansson To Whisper Stories

The author of the Jack Reacher novels jokes that he is does not care how his books are delivered as long as they reach readers

A box from Amazon.com

Amazon Removes Disney Film Pre-Orders Following Dispute

Amazon removed Disney films from their online pre-order following a dispute between the two companies.

George Orwell

Amazon Cites Orwell Incorrectly in War Against Authors

Amazon created a group of readers called Readers United in an effort to counteract the authors amassing against it.

One of Hachette's authors -

Famous Authors Take Out Full-Page Ad to Battle Amazon

A group of bestselling authors just took out a full-page ad in the New York Times in an effort to call out e-commerce giant Amazon "in the strongest possible terms to stop harming the livelihood of the authors on whom it has built its business".

Servers

Google Data-Warehousing System Processes Petabytes of Data

The new system is immune to datacenter-failures.

Amazon's Fire Phone

Amazon Fire Phone Brings New Features to its Arsenal

The phone also gives users a free year of Amazon Prime.

'Flappy Birds Family' homescreen

Flappy Bird's Back!

The exclusive sequel's called "Flappy Birds Family."

Apple Acquired BookLamp

Apple Acquires "Pandora for Books" to Challenge Amazon

Apple challenge Amazon with its BookLamp that personalize readers' needs.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Amazon Risks Losing Investors Amid Company Loss

After the second-quarter earnings of Amazon came out on Thursday, the online marketing company faces the risk of losing its investors.

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