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Amazon Makes Agressive Moves Against Competitors

Online marketplace Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is making waves in multiple industries with aggressive moves. This appears to be a play at expanding its services and challenging rivals Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), as well as other e-retailers. While the company is perhaps most well known for its online marketplace, recent years have brought it to the forefront of the technology and entertainment industries with its online streaming service, Amazon Prime, as well as its investment in portable technology like its Fire tablets and voice command system Echo. But recent announcements suggest Amazon is developing products to further cement itself as the one-stop shop for consumers searching for goods and entertainment.

While audiences continue to forgo traditional cable companies to watch television online, there are few mainstream options to choose from that offer a complete Live TV experience over the internet. Many networks offer live streaming services in select markets across the United States, but there has yet to be a service that has aggregated these streams. Amazon hopes to change this by licensing streams from some of the United States' biggest networks like CBS (NYSE: CBS) and NBCUniversal (NASDAQ: CMCSA). With recent expansion into the television market with its Fire 4K television and Fire TV stick, Amazon can release a new streaming service to its cu...

YouTube to Introduce Paid Subscription Service

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube streaming video platform recently announced a new revenue-generating effort: YouTube Red, which costs $9.99 per month and provides an ad-free experience for its members. The announcement comes after it earned over $4 billion for Google in 2014, though it didn't contribute to its parent company's earnings because of the high cost of investing in content. But introducing YouTube Red to consumers in late October is one way that the streaming platf...

Microsoft Reaps Cloud Benefits

In October, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) released a quarterly report that exceeded investor expectations across the world. The tech giant's 2016 fiscal year began with an almost 2% increase in profit to $4.62 billion.Microsoft's unexpected growth can be directly linked to its bustling cloud computing industry. Cloud computing involves the storage and management of data over the internet rather than on local servers. An Oxford Economics and SAP study, "The Cloud Grows U...

Amazon Makes Agressive Moves Against Competitors

A Look at Alphabet’s Verily

As part of the recent total transformation of Google into its multinational conglomerate parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), its Life Sciences division was restructured into an independent subsidiary of Alphabet in October and renamed Verily earlier this week. According to the New York Times' "Alphabet's Life Sciences Business Has a New Name," Alphabet chose the name because its mission is to verily-truthfully-reveal a picture of health and disease. Alphabet publicly unve...

Fighting Terrorism on Social Media

After both the Paris terrorist attacks and mass shooting in San Bernadino, California, many lawmakers and individuals around the world are pushing Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)-as well as other tech companies-to ramp up their efforts to report potential terrorists. Some efforts are stemming from legislation recently introduced to the United States Congress, while others come from individuals criticizing many social media sites' current...

The Key Drivers of a Changing Job Market

In advanced economies, wage inequality is rising. Worker wages have remained relatively stagnant for the past half-century. The job market is becoming more competitive and we are also facing a mild recession. So it makes sense that we are seeing what the future holds.In a report called "The Future of Jobs," the World Economic Forum reports that we are entering the "Fourth Industrial Revolution", a special era with an increased understanding of science and technology. The repo...

Tech Giant Google Unrolls Expansion Plans for Ultra-Fast Internet Service

Virtual Reality: A Burgeoning Market Virtual reality, otherwise known as VR, immersive media, or compute-simulated reality, is technology that replicates an environment that sim...

Google Set to Introduce Voice-Activated... Google Home versus Amazon Echo According to a recent report from the New York Times, Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is set to enter the voice-activa...

The Future of Robotics: Google Dumping I... Boston Dynamics According to a report from Bloomberg Technology, Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is looking to dump Boston Dynamics, a robotics group...

Getting the Whole World Online As we enter the digital age the ability to use the internet becomes fundamental to interacting with the world, socially, politically, and ec...

Social Media Tries to Reach Beyond its O... An increasing number of social media are trying to make their platforms more open to both users (particularly mobile users) and advertisers,...

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