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Amazon Is Struggling With Its Next-Gen “Remarkable Alexa’
Amazon is revamping its Alexa voice assistant as it prepares to launch a new paid subscription plan this year, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter. But the change is causing internal conflict and may lead to further delay. Tentatively named “Alexa Plus,” the paid version of Alexa is intended to offer …
Trimming spaces from strings faster with SVE on an Amazon Graviton 3 processor – Daniel Lemire’s blog
Programmers sometimes need to trim, or remove, characters, such as spaces from strings. It might be a surprising expensive task. In C, the following function is efficient: size_t trimspaces(const char *s, size_t len, char *out) { char * init_out{out}; for(size_t i = 0; i < len; i++) { *out = s[i]; out += (s[i] != …
Amazon axes free grocery delivery on Prime orders under $150
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is axing free grocery delivery for Prime members on orders less than $150. Customers who get their groceries delivered from Amazon Fresh — and pay less than $150 — will be charged between $3.95 and $9.95, depending on the order size, the company said in an email to Prime members …
The Raw Deal Amazon and Spotify Offer Artists
In 2012, Jeff Bezos claimed in a letter to Amazon shareholders that the company was serving humanity by eliminating old-fashioned “gatekeepers,” like book publishers, that stood between creators and their audiences. Today, nearly three decades since its founding, the company has indeed replaced these businesses with an even bigger and more centralized gatekeeper: Amazon itself. …
Amazon Is Offering Users $2 a Month for Letting It Track Phone Data
Amazon’s Ad Verification program offers select users $2 per month for sharing their traffic data. It is part of Amazon’s Shopper Panel, an invite-only program that offers users financial rewards. The voluntary program could raise privacy concerns over how Amazon handles customer data. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics …
Signify Health stock surges on reports Amazon eyeing a bid
The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY), today, Thursday, February 11, 2021, in celebration of its IPO. To honor the occasion, Kyle Armbrester, CEO, joined by John Tuttle, NYSE Vice Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer, rings The Opening Bell®. NYSE Shares of Signify Health skyrocketed more than 39% Monday morning on reports …
Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health
Amazon.com Inc. is among the bidders for healthcare company Signify Health Inc., joining other heavy hitters vying in an auction for the home-health-services provider, according to people familiar with the matter. Signify is for sale in an auction that could value it at more than $8 billion, the people said. Bids are due around Labor …
Amazon Care aims to simplify health care, but former staffers have concerns
Comment on this story Comment Fielding calls one day in 2019, a nurse for Amazon Care, the company’s then-new telehealth service for employees, found herself on the phone with a patient talking about suicide. With dawning horror, the nurse realized she had no way to transfer the caller directly to someone who could help. Instead, …
What CVS Health has done since the Amazon-One Medical deal
Amazon’s $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical has dramatically changed the healthcare market since the deal was announced in July. However, pharmacy retail and healthcare giant CVS Health has also been active since Amazon acquired One Medical. CVS pursued a partnership with One Medical before Amazon purchased the company in July. Since then, CVS has …
Amazon ratchets up its health ambitions, buying US primary care group –
Amazon has accelerated its expansion into the healthcare sector with an all-cash deal to acquire One Medical, a US group that provides virtual and in-person primary care services using a subscription fee model. Amazon is buying One Medical for $18 per share, valuing the company at around $3.9 billion and making it one of the …
