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Incorporated as “Cadabra” in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, the company went online the following year as amazon.com. It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified into DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewellery. Apart from online retailing, Amazon also produces consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and the Kindle Fire tablet computer, and provides cloud computing services.

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E-commerce titan Amazon on Tuesday said profit in the first three months of 2024 tripled as its cloud, ads, and retail businesses thrived.

TikTok last week failed to submit to the commission a risk assessment for its spin-off app by an April 18 deadline, and now has to do so by Tuesday.

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The first global standards specifically covering GenAI and LLM released on Tuesday are a joint effort between Ant Group, Baidu, Tencent, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia and others.

Generative AI may be the largest technological transformation since cloud computing or even the internet, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy writes in an annual shareholder letter.

The emergence of technology providers like Firework coincides with a growing ‘direct-to-customer’ trend for Chinese merchants involved in cross-border e-commerce.

Jeon Jong-seo and Moon Sang-min star in Amazon Prime’s Wedding Impossible, a K-drama that begins with a focus on LGBTQ themes, only to abandon them and meander towards a hollow ending.

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Government to post warnings at immigration checkpoints and hotels to remind travellers to have their own hygiene products, such as razors, because of throwaway plastics ban.

The lawsuit, brought by the US Justice Department and multiple states, accuses the tech giant of making it hard for consumers to switch to cheaper smartphones.

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So far Amazon Prime K-drama Wedding Impossible has handled the struggles of A-jeong (Jeon Jong-seo) and Ji-han (Moon Sang-min) deftly – but everything else feels less than satisfying.

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Gyllenhaal plays a hard man protector for a Florida Keys community, where he is up against a shady gangster who enlists a psychotic heavy, played by former UFC fighter Conor McGregor, to stop him.

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Wedding Impossible, Amazon Prime’s promising new K-drama, stars Jeon Jong-seo as a struggling actress set to end up in a fake marriage with her love interest’s secretly gay older brother.

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Few families have produced more male actors than the Culkin clan, with Macaulay, Kieran, Rory, Christian and Shane all starring in Prime Video’s new show The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy

The time-travelling fantasy Korean drama Marry My Husband, starring Park Min-young and Na In-woo, comes to a satisfactory end – minus a few loose ends that remain by the time the show finishes.

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Amazon Prime’s first locally produced Australian feature film, Five Blind Dates is a mishmash of genre stereotypes, and lacks the sparkle of humour and romance expected in a successful romcom.

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Amazon Prime K-drama Marry My Husband, starring Park Min-young, has made for hugely entertaining viewing even if the story’s time-travelling premise leaves a lot to be desired – thank the villains for that.

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