A bit of a surprise on Monday, August 25, as Amazon purchased the video game streaming platform Twitch Interactive for $970 million in cash, as it broadcast to all and sundry that it is seriously ambitious about expanding its presence in gaming, according to Business […]
Once just an e-commerce group, Amazon is starting to rival Google as the most obese man at the all-you-can-eat buffet. Their latest move was outlined in a letter received on July 11, 2014, by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). To aid in their development […]
Google’s shopping spree goes on and on, it seems. As of Monday, January 27, 2014, they made their biggest-ever European acquisition with the purchase of the renowned artificial intelligence firm DeepMind for a reported cost of US$400m (GB£242m, EUR292m). Further to this buy-out, on February […]
In its savviest move yet, on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Google announced that it has acquired Nest Labs for US$3.2bn. Having already published something about Nest‘s smoke detectors and thermostats on these pages, I can nonchalantly attest to having seen the handwriting on the wall months […]
