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  Cloud

  Amazon lures generative AI startups to its cloud

  April 3, 2023

  Amazon Web Services is launching a generative AI accelerator for startups, taking on Microsoft and its Azure Cloud Services.

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  Corporate VC

  CVS has invested $100M in Carbon Health. Is yet more primary care M&A in the offing?

  January 8, 2023

  CVS failed to buy One Medical before Amazon scooped it up. Now, the drugstore giant is forging a partnership with Carbon Health, which also offers tech-enabled primary health services.

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  Weekend Analysis

  Paging Dr. Amazon: How the tech giant’s One Medical deal will shake up patient care

  July 28, 2022

  Will Amazon’s entry into healthcare pose a threat to healthtech startups?

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  Big Things

  10 big things: Potential fallout from a Big Tech backlash

  August 1, 2020

  Possible implications of antitrust action against Big Tech joins a TikTok takeover offer, a sports SPAC and more in our recap of the week.

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  Big Things

  11 big things: Amazon’s $3B embrace of cleantech

  June 27, 2020

  A new fund, a new arena and a new acquisition for Amazon joins Palantir’s IPO prep, LeBron James, Mark Wahlberg and more in our recap of the week.

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  Autonomous Vehicles

  Amazon doubles down on self-driving with $1.2B Zoox deal

  June 25, 2020

  Amazon has made its first acquisition in the autonomous vehicle sector with its $1.2B takeover of VC-backed Zoox.

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  Big Things

  9 big things: The FTC won’t let tech be

  February 15, 2020

  Questions for Google, Amazon and other tech titans join ‘Parasite,’ a failed presidential pursuit and startup shutdowns in our recap of the week

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  Big Things

  10 big things: Bezos hack heralds perils for PE

  January 25, 2020

  NSO Group’s role in the Bezos-Saudi Arabia hacking scandal joins meats, motors, robots and more in our recap of the week

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  PlayBook 3Q 2019

  Do not pass go: Regulating Big Tech would risk dismantling startup exit routes

  September 25, 2019

  The world’s largest tech companies have recently come under increased scrutiny amid antitrust concerns. But breaking up Big Tech could have unpredictable effects on the startups that regulators would be aiming to protect.

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  Top Investor

  VCs’ search for the next Amazon could mean a record-setting year in Washington state

  July 16, 2019

  Washington state has long been a hotbed for some of the biggest tech titans in the world, and now it boasts a new crop of VC-backed startups that are set to redefine the state’s tech scene.

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  AI

  Why AI is making tech giants like Google and Amazon even harder to beat

  June 10, 2019

  It’s clear that AI is no longer a nascent prototype tech of the future. It’s being industrialized and commercialized at a massive scale, impacting billions of people at the behest of the world’s biggest companies.

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  Blackstone

  Blackstone strikes $18.7B pact to get into business with Amazon

  June 2, 2019

  A global private equity giant will soon be in business with a global ecommerce giant.

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  Amazon

  Deliveroo lands $575M in Amazon-led round

  May 16, 2019

  Amazon is one of the largest investors in Deliveroo with the mega-round, which will boost the British food delivery company in its quest to take on rivals such as Uber Eats.

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  Big Things

  Six big things: Do Amazonians dream of electric trucks?

  February 13, 2019

  Amazon is set to stake a startup that could be the Tesla of trucks, part of a long line of transportation deals in our recap of the past week in VC.

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  Autonomous Vehicles

  Aurora shines with unicorn investment from Sequoia, Amazon

  February 6, 2019

  Autonomous vehicle business Aurora has secured over $530 million in a round that drew participation from some of the biggest names in VC—and beyond.

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  Big Things

  Six big things: Amazon’s diaspora spreads across Silicon Valley

  November 28, 2018

  The Amazon-centric hiring practices of Silicon Valley startups join hundreds of layoffs and two new unicorns in our recap of the week in VC.

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  Venture Capital

  Amazon to pick up VC-backed PillPack for $1B as part of healthcare push

  June 27, 2018

  The deal marks the ecommerce giant’s entry into the pharmaceutical space in a move that sent industry rivals spiraling.

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  M&A

  M&A flashback: Amazon announces $775M Kiva Systems acquisition

  March 18, 2018

  The purchase of Whole Foods will no doubt go down as one of Amazon’s most significant acquisitions of this decade. But its $775 million deal for Kiva Systems remains the more transformative deal.

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