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El jefe de dispositivos de Amazon se retira este año
David Limp dejará su cargo como jefe de la división de dispositivos de consumo de Amazon a finales de este año. Amazon ha confirmado la noticia con TechCrunch, tras una Informe del Wall Street Journal. Limp ha sido vicepresidente sénior de dispositivos y servicios de la empresa durante más de 13 años. En el cargo,…
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Barbie Movie Ken In Faux Fur Coat Doll está de vuelta en Amazon
La película de acción real de Barbie protagonizada por Margot Robbie como Barbie y Ryan Gosling como Ken está rompiendo récords de taquilla en todo el lugar, lo que solo puede significar cosas buenas para la línea de juguetes de Mattel. Esperamos que las muñecas sean aún más grandes de lo habitual para la Navidad…
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Amazon confirms that it has acquired GameSparks
Ahead of GDC later this month, Amazon has confirmed an acquisition that speaks to its ambitions to do more in the area of gaming — and specifically through offering platform tools for the games developer community. The company has acquired UK- and Ireland-based cloud gaming platform GameSparks — a “backend as a service” for game developers…
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Uber has reportedly rescinded its job offer for the Amazon exec that was its potential product lead
Uber appeared set to hire Assaf Ronen, the former vice president of Amazon’s voice and natural user interface shopping, to lead its products — but it looks like that isn’t going to happen due to a discrepancy in his working history, according to Recode. Uber discovered a discrepancy related to his tenure at Amazon, where…
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Amazon adds fingerprint authentication to Key app for Android
Building technology is all about learning as you go. Amazon knows this, and has today added fingerprint ID to the new Amazon Key app, which enables in-home delivery of goods. The Key app was announced in October, alongside the Cloud Cam, which lets users watch goings on in their homes as delivery professionals come in…
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Amazon will now pay Alexa developers for top-performing skills for kids
Last year, Amazon announced a program that would reward developers for building popular and well-received Alexa skills, by doling out cash payments for top-performing skills. Initially, the program was only open to game skill developers – as that was a category Amazon wanted to encourage – before expanding in August to a limited set of…
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Amazon launches its Prime Music service in India
Amazon has quietly launched its Prime Music service in India today. The retailer brought its Prime service to India some 18 months ago, but at the time it was lacking the free music and video streaming services. Amazon added the Prime Video months later, but it has taken some time for the music service to…
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Amazon expands its Techstars Alexa Accelerator to London, starts search for second cohort
Amazon continues to tap into the developer community to expand the ubiquity of its Alexa voice-based assistant, and it’s taking the strategy international. Today the company opened applications for the Alexa Accelerator, the program for startups building solutions and services for voice-based assistants, which Amazon runs in conjunction with Techstars. Most notably, as part of…
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Estos 5 títulos desparecerán en pocos días de Amazon Prime Video
Del mismo modo que las plataformas de streaming amplían cada mes su catálogo, con mucho menos ruido, van reduciendo el mismo, quitando algunas películas o series que siempre estuvieron ahí para ti. Estas son algunas de las principales historias que desaparecerán pronto de Amazon Prime Video: 1-‘Tiempo’ Night Shyamalan en el set de ‘Tiempo’ (Universal…
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Los libros de Dungeons & Dragons tienen hasta un 67% de descuento en Amazon
Amazon tiene algunos grandes acuerdos de D&D que incluyen libros de reglas básicos. Si está buscando ofertas en libros de Dungeons & Dragons, Amazon siempre tiene opciones. Sin embargo, están ejecutando algunas ofertas en este momento que van más allá con descuentos que oscilan entre el 50% y el 67% de descuento. De hecho, las…
