Amazon

Amazon to sack 18,000; taps $8bn loan. CEO Jassy: “We’ll be scrappy”

Amazon to sack 18,000; taps $8bn loan. CEO Jassy: “We’ll be scrappy”

Amazon is cutting over 18,000 jobs, CEO Andy Jassy has confirmed – saying he was pressed into revealing the news before contacting employees “as one of our teammates leaked this information externally.” The majority of the 18,000 Amazon job cuts will be concentrated in Amazon Stores and HR, including...

The Stack January 05, 2023

Amazon to lay off 10,000: Reports

Amazon to lay off 10,000: Reports

Amazon customers are assessing "purchasing power... evaluating their technology and advertising spend.”

The Stack November 14, 2022

Google Cloud losses slump to $858 million

Google Cloud losses slump to $858 million

Wasn't cloud meant to be a cash machine? Alphabet executives say they're unconcerned...

Eliot Beer July 27, 2022

More than a gimmick? Alphabet's Wing makes record 50k drone deliveries in Q1

More than a gimmick? Alphabet's Wing makes record 50k drone deliveries in Q1

Wing now delivers in Texas, Virginia, Finland and Australia - but not the UK.

Eliot Beer April 27, 2022

Amazon gears up to launch 3,236 satellites under $10B Project Kuiper

Amazon gears up to launch 3,236 satellites under $10B Project Kuiper

"The largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history..."

The Stack April 08, 2022

AWS turns from open source villain to hero (at least, for some Elasticsearch users)...

AWS turns from open source villain to hero (at least, for some Elasticsearch users)...

OpenSearch 1.0, a production-ready, Apache 2.0-licensed Elasticsearch fork lands...

Edward Targett July 13, 2021