At Fung Global Retail & Technology, my team and I have been keeping a close eye on Amazon. Last week, Amazon announced it will be introducing new private-label brands that will mark its first push into perishable foods, diapers and vitamins, according to The Wall Street Journal. The e-commerce giant is having a year of growth, innovation and, most significantly, disruption. Last year, Amazon generated 27% of total retail growth and accounted for $0.42 of every $1.00 of growth in e-commerce in the US. Despite its size, Amazon managed to increase its worldwide revenue by 28% last year, to a total of $29.1 billion.

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Blizzard’s Overwatch is finally out at long last, but before you fully dive into it, here are some things you should know. It can be a lot to take in, so this is worth a read if you’re a relatively new player.

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Tying corporate wellness incentives to wearable technology metrics in their current form is bad for the individual, because nearly every fitness or activity tracker prioritizes 10,000 daily steps as the primary norm. There are many problems with this approach.

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Twitter announced on Tuesday it is reducing what counts toward its trademark 140-character tweet limit.

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Samsung has registered a new trademark that suggests a new user-friendly security measures is arriving on its mobile hardware. Marks for both ‘Samsung Iris’ and ‘Samsung Eyeprint’ were requested last week, implying that the technology is on course to be available to the public.

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Amazon’s new ComiXology Unlimited offers thousands of comics at a killer monthly price point… with a couple of caveats.

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Do doctors know enough about medical technology to help start building the software that they use inside their practices? Traditional thinking would say, no. The medical trade might be modernizing, but its members generally know more about kidneys than keyboards and more about colons, corneas and clavicles than CAPS lock. So could creating bottom-up healthcare software directly with developers could help save public money in many Western countries, where funds have been wasted developing top-down systems that are not always fit for purpose.

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