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Space X CEO Elon Musk has been talking space again on Twitter, but this time he's been using it to point out his own company's achievements in the wake of Amazon's successful Blue Origin launch. Although that was quite an achievement, he pointed out that Space X had been performing similar …

Amazon has been experimenting with same day delivery over in the US this year, with Prime Now expanding to a few cities. The retail giant even brought the service over to London earlier this year but now it is set to expand further to cover nine more locations across the UK. …

Following on from complaints from booksellers in Germany, the country's federal cartel office is now investigating the relationship between Amazon and Apple. Right now, the Amazon-owned audio book service, Audible, supplies Apple with audio books, so this investigation will try to determine whether or not this deal restricts competition from …

Although there were a number of reasons for Google to give itself a new parent company – Alphabet – one of the effects of such a move we were told, was that some of the search giant's less profitable, more experimental strategies and developments would receive more focus. That appears …

2016 might be the year that virtual reality first becomes viable for consumers around the world, but it's also the year that we'll get our first taste of automated grocery deliveries. A new venture by original Skype founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis called Starship, has built a prototype autonomous delivery …

Amazon has designed its own pair of augmented reality glasses, judging by a recent patent filing from the company. While many other device makers are currently focussed on virtual reality, there aren't as many big names currently working on augmented reality, aside from Microsoft with the Hololens and Google with …

It looks like Google wants to take on Amazon in the delivery drone race, as the company has just submitted two new designs to the Federal Aviation Administration. These are being tested by the Google X branch, which is Google's experimental division. The drones are named M2 and B3 at …

Amazon apparently has made plans to discontinue sales of the Apple TV and Google Chromecast devices on its store, forbidding third-party merchants from listing either device. These two devices are massively popular for those wanting a streaming box but they obviously compete with some of Amazon's own Fire products. This …

Amazon is finally going to stop selling its Fire Phone this year. The retailer jumped in to the saturated Android smartphone market last year but failed to really grab the attention of critics or consumers, most people just didn't care that the phone existed so as you can imagine, Amazon …

Google is continuing to take swings at any big tech competitors it can find, as following Amazon's move into grocery and other food and beverage deliveries, the search giant has now announced that it will begin offering such a service too. Starting later this year, San Francisco (and one other …

Amazon may be looking to expand its grocery delivery service beyond raw ingredients, with new job listings appearing for restaurant division staff in the Seattle and New York areas. It's not clear if Amazon is looking to open its own restaurant/take away outlets, or merely delivering food put together by …

So, does anyone remember last year when Amazon attempted to release a smartphone? No? … I didn't think so. Since the Fire Phone flopped last year, costing Amazon as much as £100 million, the company has decided that it would be a wise idea to scale back its hardware efforts …

There are a lot of perks for being an Amazon Prime member. There's exclusive movies and TV shows, free access to huge libraries of books and music and free delivery. However for those living in select cities, Prime Now, a one or two hour delivery service is available. There are …

The slow downfall of Adobe Flash continues, as Amazon announces that from September onwards it will no longer be accepting flash based advertisements on its site. The decision was apparently driven by recent updates to several popular web browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. In recent years, Flash has …

Amazon's trade-in scheme, which allows customers to send in old products like games, books and clothes to earn credit against other purchases, is coming to a close. Anyone wishing to take advantage of it has until the 31st of August to get their returns in, after which Amazon will no …

Over the last couple of years, Amazon has been making a push in the gaming space, even going as far as to set up its very own studio with quite a few esteemed developers coming from famed studios like Valve and Bungie. However, we have yet to see any big …

The new car show set to be hosted by ex-Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May on Amazon Prime, will be “very, very, very expensive,” for Amazon, according to the company head and 15th world's richest man, Jeff Bezos. While he wouldn't confirm how much any of …

The biggest issue facing those attempting to legislate and/or regulate the use of drones within the UK and around the world, is that they share the same sort of space as other aerial vehicles do, namely airplanes. While drone operators are warned to keep them under a certain height and …

Amazon Prime Now launched in the US for trial runs back last year in select cities. The new service brought one-hour delivery to Prime customers in the area and now, it is starting to work its way over to the UK, with Prime Now becoming active in London. Given that …

Amazon has been causing a stir in the ebooks scene for years now and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. Now the retailer has plans to introduce a new payment system that will make it so that some authors are paid based on how many pages of a book …

Amazon revealed its future vision for 30 minute delivery drones some time ago. Since then, the company has made significant progress with its drones, although due to some setbacks with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Amazon had to take its tests to other countries where the rules gave the company …

Getting packages to customers faster and faster has been part of Amazon's edict for years now. It's investigated drone delivers, but has hit a few hiccups there, so one solution that may help improve its goods flow is to pay members of the public to deliver them too, rather than …

The European Commission has gone ahead with yet another anti-trust investigation. This time, its sights are set on Amazon due to its e-book deals and contracts with book publishers. The investigation was formally launched this week with the aim of ensuring that Amazon's publisher contracts don't “make it more difficult …

Amazon has been making a push for gaming, not only did it acquire Double Helix last year, the developer behind Killer Instinct, but it also bought Twitch, the largest video game streaming platform on the planet. Now with all of this in mind, it may not come as such a …

Amazon is looking to poke its digits into more digital pies this week, with the announcement that it has launched a new advertising scheme for mobiles, designed to help app makers promote their software on Android and Amazon Fire devices. This scheme will go after the two dominant companies in …

Following on from the UK's general election taking place last week, many people have their eyes on the re-elected prime-minister David Cameron, to see if (among other things) he will make good on promises he's made in the past that tech firms dodging British tax law would be strapped down …

Amazon made the unpopular decision last year to put a minimum spend on free delivery. It seems that Amazon becoming less willing to foot the bill for postage as it has doubled the minimum spend requirement from £10 to £20 in the UK to qualify for free delivery. Amazon has …

It looks like the US Federal Aviation Authority has finally got its act together as it has finally given Amazon the permission it needed to conduct drone test flights on US soil. The move follows strong words of disappointment coming from Amazon, after the FAA approved the use of a …

Rumor has it that Crytek has just entered a huge licensing deal with Amazon, worth between $50 million and $70 million. The developer, which recently faced some financial struggles, will now be kept afloat for quite some time, according to several anonymous sources speaking with Kotaku. Crytek did say last …

Amazon has announced its new subscription tiers for its online storage service, ‘Cloud Drive’, with one of the options offering up unlimited storage. Those with Amazon Prime or owners of an Amazon Fire device will already have access to unlimited photo storage, but now two extra tiers are available to …