Amazon set to launch own delivery service, competing with UPS & FedEx
Amazon is reportedly kickstarting "Shipping With Amazon," or SWA, a delivery service for other businesses that will take on industry leaders UPS and FedEx.
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Roger Fingas
Stacking up Apple HomePod, Amazon Echo and Google Home
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple all have voice assistants vying for attention, and all are moving the concept of computer-human voice interaction forward. AppleInsider offers an abbreviated history of how we got here and the capabilities of these assistants and their devices in anticipation of HomePod. What do these things do? What do people use them for? And what is Apple doing differently?
Victor Marks
Amazon's Super Bowl ad reveals the same old Alexa ahead of Apple's HomePod
After a teaser suggested new voice options could be coming to Alexa, the release of Amazon's full Super Bowl spot reveals it was all just a joke, setting up a primetime ad where celebrities substitute in for Alexa — and poorly.
Neil Hughes
Amazon, big finance spearhead healthcare effort without 'profit-making incentives'
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase have announced plans to develop a program to pare down health care costs initially for their own employees, but with a suggestion that it could expand the effort to the rest of Americans in the future.
Mike Wuerthele
Ahead of Apple's HomePod launch, Amazon teases new voices for Alexa
With days to go before the launch of Apple's Siri-powered HomePod smart speaker, Amazon will unveil changes to its own personal assistant, Alexa, likely to come in the form of new voice options.
Voice commands coming to Amazon's Alexa app for iPhone & iPad
People wanting to make use of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant will soon be able to talk to it through the company's iOS app, instead of depending on an Echo speaker or other compatible device.
Apple holds onto decade-plus streak at top of Fortune's 'Most Admired Companies'
For the 11th year in a row, Apple on Friday took the top spot on Fortune's annual "World's Most Admired Companies" list, this time based on the opinions of some 3,900 executives, directors, analysts, and experts.
Amazon narrows the field of candidates for its $5B second headquarters to 20 cities across North America
Amazon has revealed its list of candidates for building a new headquarters in North America, publishing a shortlist of 20 cities and metropolitan areas that are still in the running to host the online retail giant's second base of operations.
Malcolm Owen
Apple picked as 'most innovative' company in recent US survey
Among a list of 12 major corporations, Apple was picked as the most innovative by a wide margin in a poll of U.S. adults.
