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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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  • Snap is the latest example, announcing this week it is reducing its workforce by about 10 per cent, or around 540 employees
  • Although economic factors are the main reason for tech lay-offs, firms are also shifting resources to focus on AI talent

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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Such a national approach to the artificial intelligence boom stands to drive an expansion of data centres that would need Nvidia’s know-how and hardware.

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Musk’s wealth is down US$30 billion this year to just under US$200 billion, as Tesla’s stock tanked 26 per cent. Jeff Bezos is just US$15 billion behind Musk, threatening his crown as the world’s richest person

The Biden administration's proposal requires firms to reveal foreign customers’ names and IP addresses, forcing tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft to devise a budget for collecting those details.

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The Biden administration wants such disclosures in an effort to detect foreign actors that might use artificial intelligence to launch ‘malicious cyber-enabled activity’.

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking details on how the partnerships between start-ups and Big Tech influence strategy and pricing decisions.

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The TV series stars Kidman, Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yoo, but Hong Kong actors feature in the Amazon Prime TV show too – meet Flora Chan, Bonde Sham and Will Or

The e-commerce firm joins more than 60 other tech companies, including Amazon.com and Google parent Alphabet, that have let almost 11,000 employees go so far this year.

Prime Video’s Reacher continues to dominate charts, despite mixed reviews from critics – so who’s the man portraying Tom Cruise’s character on the small screen, and how just did he get so ‘jacked’?

From a corner shop to outer space, Jean Yoon’s career trajectory has been out of this world. The Canadian actress talks about her starring role in Kim’s Convenience and her intergalactic turn in Code 8: Part II.

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The internet is divided over the bizarre case of Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian orphan with a rare dwarfism condition, who was accused of being older – but there’s more to her story than meets the eye

Succession, The Bear and Beef dominate the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards honouring the best of American television, and a star of The White Lotus gets a look-in.

Alibaba and TikTok played to their strengths at CES, as they catered to a market where it has been increasingly difficult for Chinese companies to operate.

Running a large-scale website supporting 1.8 billion hours of live video content a month is enormously expensive, company executives have said.

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Condemned by Death, after taking his own life, to live the last moments of 12 other people about to die, Choi Yee-jae’s nightmare comes to an end in Death’s Game Part Two after a wild and fun ride.

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Park Min-young plays an office worker who is killed by her husband when she confronts him about his affair with her friend. She wakes up in the past, and decides to live her life differently.

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Chinese-American filmmaker Lulu Wang talks about the challenges she faced making the Hong Kong-set Expats, and how the show’s star, Nicole Kidman, championed her ‘untraditional’ voice.

ByteDance’s TikTok aims to grow the size of its US e-commerce business tenfold to as much as US$17.5 billion this year, according to people familiar with the matter, posing a bigger threat to Amazon.com.

The so-called Magnificent Seven, which includes Apple, Amazon.com, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Tesla and Nvidia, slipped for the last four trading days, the longest losing streak in a month.

K-drama fans are in for a treat in January, with new series including revenge drama Marry My Husband, starring Park Min-young, The Bequeathed on Netflix, and Lee Dong-wook in A Shop For Killers.

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The opening of Amazon’s second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, has helped the area develop into a draw for tourists for whom its proximity to Washington previously wasn’t enough.

A fresh funding round would make OpenAI the second-most valuable start-up in the United States, behind Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

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Park So-dam and Seo In-guk star in Amazon Prime K-drama Death’s Game, a fast-paced fantasy-action webtoon adaptation that follows a man sent back to live 12 more lives after jumping to his death.

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Reacher star Alan Ritchson talks about the challenge of playing the taciturn character and how, in season 2, viewers will really get to know Jack Reacher, who was a man of mystery in the first season.

Korean star Jang Dong-yoon led six productions in 2023, including period school drama Oasis, romantic film Long D and hit Netflix series Daily Dose of Sunshine. We look back at his career.

American e-commerce giant Amazon has introduced a slew of initiatives to help Chinese merchants sell abroad, at a time when rivals like Shein and Temu are gaining traction.

My Man Is Cupid, Amazon Prime’s first original Korean drama, is a comfortable and undemanding watch that sees a Cupid-like figure (Jang Dong-yoon) and unlucky-in-love veterinary surgeon (Nana) meet.

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