{"id":12338,"date":"2022-11-24T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=12338"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:21:43","slug":"amazon-to-shut-down-online-learning-academy-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/amazon-to-shut-down-online-learning-academy-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to shut down online learning academy in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon to shut down online learning academy in India. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon.com<\/a> said on Thursday it would shut down its online learning platform for high-school students in India less than two years of its launch, without citing a reason.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Academy platform, launched early last year amid a boom in virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, offered coaching for competitive exams including Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), which allows entry into top engineering colleges across India.<\/p>\n<p>Based on an assessment, the e-commerce giant said in a statement that it had made the decision to discontinue Amazon Academy &#8220;in a phased manner to take care of current customers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/amazon-testing-tiktok-style-feed-on-its-app.html\">Amazon testing TikTok-style feed on its app<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The winding down comes at a time when multiple edtech firms are reeling under the pressure of schools and coaching centres reopening across India after COVID-19-induced lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, industry leader Byju&#8217;s had said it would lay off 2,500 employees as it pushes to turn profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Other players Unacademy, Toppr, WhiteHat Jr, and Vedantu had also announced layoffs earlier this year, as per local media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>It has been referred to as &#8220;one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world&#8221;, and is one of the world&#8217;s most valuable brands.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon to shut down online learning academy in India. Amazon.com said on Thursday it would shut down its online learning platform for high-school students in India less than two years of its launch, without citing a reason. The Amazon Academy platform, launched early last year amid a boom in virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6286,139],"class_list":["post-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}