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Apple and Amazon are teaming up to challenge Starlink’s smartphone ambitions

Amazon has made a deal to buy Globalstar’s low-Earth orbit satellite network for $11.57 billion, snapping up its spectrum licenses, operations, and assets to combine with its upcoming Leo internet satellite constellation. Apple owned 20 percent of Globalstar, and as a part of the deal, Amazon will continue to support satellite services like Emergency SOS […]

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Amazon agrees to acquire Globalstar in an $11.6B deal

Amazon and Apple have also signed a separate agreement for Amazon Leo to continue powering satellite features on iPhone and Apple Watch. The deal gives Amazon the spectrum, infrastructure, and operational expertise to launch direct-to-device satellite services from 2028, and compresses years of development into a single transaction. Amazon has agreed to acquire Globalstar in […]

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Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases

Amazon Luna announced a big change on Friday that will prevent players from purchasing third-party games and subscriptions. The cloud gaming service will remove previously purchased games on June 10th, 2026, though they’ll still be available to play on other platforms through the EA, GOG, or Ubisoft accounts players used when purchasing the title. In […]

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Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign

In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amazon with Amazon Nova Reel-generated videos of individual shelter animals to drive adoptions. The tool processes natural language queries to match prospective adopters with compatible shelter pets, and a pilot […]

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Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live

In short: Amazon’s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November 2025, entered enterprise beta on April 8, 2026, with commercial availability targeted for mid-2026 per Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter. The service offers three terminal tiers delivering up to 1 Gbps for enterprise users, with Verizon, AT&T, Vodafone, JetBlue, and NASA […]

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Amazon’s chip business could be worth $50 billion, Jassy says, and he hints it may sell them externally

In short: Andy Jassy’s annual letter to shareholders, published on 9 April 2026, reveals that Amazon’s custom chip business, covering Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro, generates more than $20 billion in annualised revenue growing at triple-digit rates year-on-year. If sold on the open market like Nvidia, Jassy says, the business would be worth roughly $50 billion a […]

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Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will “launch in mid-2026.” I’m going to assume that means proper commercial availability since the company already announced the start of an “enterprise preview” at the end of 2025, when the service was supposed to originally launch. Unlike SpaceX’s Starlink […]

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