El año pasado, el primer intento de Amazon.com Inc. por crear teléfono inteligente, el Fire, fue recibido con frialdad tanto por los críticos de tecnología como por los consumidores. Ahora, en lugar de seguir avanzando con ese proyecto, como lo hizo con las tabletas Kindle y otros productos, el minorista en línea decidió replegar sus fuerzas.
En las últimas semanas, de acuerdo con fuentes al tanto, Amazon despidió a decenas de ingenieros que trabajaron en el Fire en el llamado Lab126, el centro secreto de desarrollo de hardware que la firma montó en Silicon Valley.
E-commerce heavyweight Amazon today disclosed in its quarterly earnings statement that its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), the biggest public cloud currently available, generated $1.82 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2015. That means revenue grew by 81 percent year over year — a surprisingly high growth rate.
For the year that ended on June 30, the cloud brought in $5.97 billion.
Trenton, New Jersey, isn’t the industrial powerhouse it once was, even if the slogan “Trenton Makes, the World Takes,” first installed in 1935, still stands in 10-foot-tall letters across a bridge that spans the Delaware River to Pennsylvania. But a few minutes east of town, inside a warehouse belonging to Amazon, there are signs of another industrial transformation.
After giving people a glimpse of the size of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing business once every quarter for the past eight years, Amazon for the first time today disclosed AWS’ real finances. And they are staggering: Amazon Web Services generated $5.16 billion in revenue last year.
Amazon sigue ampliando las fronteras de su negocio. Y esta vez no lo hace comercializando una nueva gama de productos a través de su tienda online sino ofreciendo servicios de profesionales a domicilio, desde un fontanero, un pintor, un electricista o un jardinero, hasta un profesor particular. El gigante de internet ha puesto en marcha la sección Amazon Home Services en su página web, un movimiento que le permitirá ofrecer a sus clientes cualquier tipo de profesional relacionado con el mundo de las tareas domésticas y, en muchos casos, servicios vinculados a productos que vende en su web.
Packets of Oreos, boxes of crayons, and squeaky dog toys will test the limits of robot vision and manipulation in a competition this May. Amazon is organizing the event to spur the development of more nimble-fingered product-packing machines.
Participating robots will earn points by locating products sitting somewhere on a stack of shelves, retrieving them safely, and then packing them into cardboard shipping boxes. Robots that accidentally crush a cookie or drop a toy will have points deducted. The people whose robots earn the most points will win $25,000.
Amazon does not break out Amazon Web Services revenue on its own. But Amazon’s “other” revenue for North America — including AWS as well as advertising services and co-branded credit card agreements — came in at $1.67 billion for the fourth quarter of 2014.
The year-to-year revenue growth rate for that figure is 43 percent.
Jeff Bezos sigue pensando en hacer crecer el negocio de Amazon antes que ganar dinero y repartir los frutos entre los accionistas. El portal de comercio electrónico cerró así el ejercicio con pérdidas de 241 millones de dólares (213 millones de euros), frente a ganar 274 millones hace un año. En el cuarto trimestre, sin embargo, ganó 214 millones, lo que fue bien recibido en Wall Street. La cifra de negocio se elevó a 88.990 millones, un 20% más.
Amazon joined existing big-name tech companies last year when it finally committed to running its cloud-based “Amazon Web Services (AWS)” offering entirely on renewable energy.
Though it remains a longer-term commitment, Amazon has today revealed a partnership with Pattern Energy Group to “support the construction and operation of a 150 megawatt (MW) wind farm,” Amazon says in a press release.
Amazon.com revealed its latest-generation warehouse in time for Cyber Monday. The warehouse uses robotics, vision systems, and other high-end tech to speed up deliveries for its ecommerce customers.
Seattle-based Amazon said its eighth-generation fulfillment center uses 20 years’ worth of software and mechanical innovations. The company plans to build 10 warehouses based on the technology that it has developed.
