Its focus is shifting from retail to online ads and services, which is good news for ‘Main Street’, not so much for Facebook and Google, says Conor Sen.

Schools, hospitals and governments have quickly embraced Amazon as a source of supplies, propelling the company’s three-year-old business platform into a €8.6bn-plus annual enterprise.

Amazon continues to move towards becoming one of the world's first trillion dollar companies as it reported a 39% sales increase in its latest financial results.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Government will not spend all of the €3.2bn available to it in October’s budget, but will instead pay down the national debt.

An environmentalist has mounted a legal challenge to the granting of planning permission for a huge €100m data storage facility in North West Dublin linked to internet giant Amazon.

The idea for Cloud-based recovery firm CloudRanger was drawn on a bar napkin, writes Trish Dromey

Growth saw the firm, which Jeff Bezos first created in his garage, expand into other items and soon the company established itself as the market leader in online stores.

Amazon is reportedly planning to build a new data centre campus in Mulhuddart, Dublin, as it looks to expand its Amazon Web Services business.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has cornered online retail, jumped ahead in artificial intelligence with voice activated speaker, Echo, carved out a powerful spot in the media industry and is even dabbling in spaceflight. He may be just getting warmed up, writes Alexander Nazaryan.

Large Irish companies are adopting cloud technologies at a faster rate than their UK counterparts but have different reasons for wanting to do so, according to new research.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Amazon has notched up a Prime fourth quarter, surprising investors with a profit that soundly beat expectations, despite a continued increase in spending and a slight sales miss, partly linked to the strong dollar.

EMC Corp will start selling a package of storage, services, and VMware software to help customers set up cloud networks in their corporate data centres and easily shift them to the internet.

Technology giant Amazon has launched a set-top TV box to compete with Apple TV and Google Chromecast.

Amazon has announced it is to increase the size of its Dublin office moving its Dublin Development Centre to a new premises at Burlington Plaza.