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Amazon Cloud Seen Continuing To Shine Vs. Google

Amazon.com likely will continue to outpace rivals Microsoft and Google in the fast-growing and competitive public cloud services market, say analysts, even as its revenue growth slows due to aggressive price-cutting. Amazon.com (AMZN), the No. 1 online retailer, also is the No. 1 provider of cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, with its Amazon Web Services unit. AWS is the preferred vendor for companies looking for easy and cheaper ways to run their

Alibaba delivers tea by drone in China, beats Amazon

While Amazon.com (AMZN) waits to get permission from the U.S. government to test delivery drones, its counterpart in China has beaten it to the air. Alibaba’s (BABA) major online marketplace, Taobao, has partnered with the Shanghai YTO Express delivery service to run a three-day test program. Taobao plans to deliver by drone a brand of ginger tea to 450 customers from Wednesday through Friday this week, Tech In Asia reported. The ginger tea is used to treat menstrual cramps. Customers must live within a certain radius of distribution sites in Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai, Tech In Asia said. The packages will be delivered within an hour, Taobao said. A video on the Taobao website shows a small quadcopter making a delivery to an online customer. Amazon first revealed its drone delivery aspirations on Black Friday 2013. It’s testing unmanned aerial vehicles for the delivery of goods…

Amazon, Sprint circling RadioShack retail locations

As long-struggling retailer RadioShack prepares to take a dirt nap, Amazon.com and Sprint are considering whether to pick up some of the company’s store locations. The New York Stock Exchange late Monday suspended trading in RadioShack stock and announced that it was taking action to delist the company’s shares. RadioShack stock last traded at 24 cents a share and no longer meets NYSE listing requirements. RadioShack and wireless carrier Sprint (S) reportedly are in talks on a deal that would see RadioShack sell up to half of its retail locations to Sprint and close down the rest. The transaction would be part of a bankruptcy liquidation, according to Bloomberg and other news services. Meanwhile, Amazon.com (AMZN) is considering using some RadioShack locations as showcases for the e-commerce firm’s hardware and as potential pickup and drop-off centers for online customers, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. To date, Amazon has only opened pop-up stores.