Amazon brings James Bond, Rocky to fight Netflix with $8.5 bln MGM buy

Amazon.com Inc will buy MGM, the fabled U.S. movie studio home to the James Bond franchise, for $8.45 billion, giving it a huge library of films and TV shows andamping up competition with streaming rivals led by Netflix and Disney+.

Microsoft claims Edge is now ‘the best performing browser on Windows 10’

Microsoft is now claiming the performance crown in the desktop browser battle, adding new features to Edge over the past year to improve performance and launch times, allowing Microsoft to claim itself the performance winner, even as Google releases Chrome 91 today. Microsoft also submitted 5,300 commits to the Chromium browser project, which will also benefit Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers.

Twitter teases its upcoming ‘premium’ service, which it plans to release globally

Twitter will soon roll out a new subscription service that will present users with an expanded feature set available only to paid subscribers. This is a different offering than Twitter’s previously announced Super Follow subscription plans, which will allow users to subscribe to individual creators for access to exclusive content.

Google isn’t ready to turn search into a conversation

The future of search is a conversation, and it was the centerpiece of last week's I/O developer conference, demoing two “groundbreaking” AI systems that it hopes to integrate into all its products. Users will be able to “talk to Google” using natural language to retrieve information from the web or their personal archives of messages, calendar appointments, photos, and more.