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Amazon has updated its Echo and Echo Dot smart speakers. Darren Price takes a look.

Chromebooks were the best performing client PC product in Q3, as shipments grew 122% to a total of 9.4 million – tablets are making a comeback.

Global platform vendors have released new smart speakers and displays, ensuring value and availability.

Amazon has made an equity investment in Cohesity and together the companies are releasing a new DMaaS offering on AWS.

The retail giant has a 125% lead over its closest rival Alibaba, which saw 10.9% growth in Q2. Quarter-on-quarter market capitalisation growth was also seen across all top 25 publicly traded global retailers, according to new research from GlobalData.

The top 5 IaaS providers accounted for 80% of the total worldwide market in 2019, according to a new report from Gartner.

Google and Amazon were the most imitated brands in phishing attempts for the second quarter of 2020, according to Check Point. 

Amazon Australia has announced the launch of Amazon Launchpad Innovation Grants, an initiative to recognise innovation by Australian startups, entrepreneurs and SMBs. 

The projects in China, Australia, and the U.S. will total 615 MWh. Comes as Amazon criticised for conditions and lack of paid sick leave in U.S.

The cloud giant says Kendra uses its machine learning framework to provide high-quality results to ‘natural language’ queries, as opposed to the more common search function which pulls a list of links in response to keywords.

Provides out-of-the-box support for Amazon EventBridge, offering Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Boomi customers.

IDC's research indicates that global shipments have fallen to 24.6 million units, down 18.1% year-over-year during the first quarter of 2020.

Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa, takes up residence in the Echo Show 8.

Slack has reported that in the past seven weeks, more than 7,000 new companies have signed up to Slack as remote working becomes the new norm. 

“Markets [in which] smart speakers are booming saw the most significant year-on-year growth.”

For the second year, it made the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator list by Clarivate Analytics, which includes giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google.

Data centers are now a cornerstone of the information economy, with USD$100 billion having been poured into the asset class over the past decade.

"The amount of exposed records that we're seeing today means that cybercriminals are getting their hands on more keys to our homes and businesses.”

The valuation of the global industry has doubled since 2017, and is set to reach $158 billion in the next four years.

“Low-priced devices are vital growth drivers for smart displays and heated competition ahead of the Q4 shopping season is expected."

Competition from lower-cost smartwatches will reduce average selling prices by 4.5% in 2021.

The Oppo-supported up-and-comer has announced the release of four devices, three of which include quad-camera, all under $500.

UPS has sent a warning shot to Amazon with its newly approved drone delivery fleet.

Amazon has launched a new line-up of Echo devices, enabling users to access Alexa at home in different ways, as well as a range of Alexa features.