- Friday 27th February - 4:00 am

When it comes to the Amazon-Walmart competition, grocery has become a key battleground. Why? It’s the closest thing U.S. retail has to a weekly subscription. Win the cart, and you ...
- Thursday 26th February - 1:00 pm

Amazon’s proposed $50 billion investment in OpenAI reportedly has some conditions attached.
As The Information reported Wednesday (Feb. 25), sources in contact with OpenAI executives say the decision to invest could ...
- Thursday 26th February - 11:08 am

A U.K. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday (Feb. 26) that two lawsuits alleging that Amazon abused its dominant position in the market can proceed, according to updates posted by the ...
- Monday 23rd February - 8:10 pm

Amazon will invest $12 billion in data center campuses in Louisiana that will support its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies, the company said in a Monday (Feb. 23) ...
- Monday 23rd February - 1:17 pm

Walmart has introduced a new data insights platform for its retail suppliers.
Scintilla In-Store is an off-shoot of the company’s Scintilla platform, and is designed to “reduce out-of-stocks, streamline execution, and ...
- Monday 23rd February - 10:46 am

Last year, the Competition and Markets Authority, the United Kingdom’s antitrust watchdog, chose former Amazon executive Doug Gurr as its interim chair.
Now, the CMA wants Gurr in the top leadership ...
- Thursday 19th February - 2:15 pm

Talk about raining on the parade. New Walmart CEO John Furner’s first earnings call was dampened by the news Thursday morning (Feb. 19) that it had been surpassed by Amazon ...
- Wednesday 18th February - 1:57 pm

How much will Anthropic pay the world’s cloud leaders to run its artificial intelligence model?
An analysis of the company’s forecasts published Wednesday (Feb. 18) by The Information shows that the company expects it will ...
- Wednesday 18th February - 7:00 am

Fifty years ago, Susan was one of more than a hundred million Americans who drove to a shopping mall an average of once a week to buy things. By 1976, ...
- Monday 16th February - 4:13 pm

Amazon and Microsoft are reportedly pushing into a new part of the AI world: arranging deals with news publishers.
That’s according to a report Monday (Feb. 16) from the Wall Street ...
- Sunday 15th February - 7:50 pm

Is artificial intelligence going to disrupt broad swaths of the economy? Or are tech giants like Amazon, Google and Meta funneling hundreds of billions into the sector with no sign ...
- Thursday 12th February - 1:43 pm

What used to be a retail war between Amazon and Walmart is now a platform war over who embeds themselves deepest into consumers’ daily routines.
Over the past week alone, a ...
- Wednesday 11th February - 11:14 am

Amazon is enhancing its health-related offerings by expanding the geographic range of its same-day prescription delivery service and by launching a beta feature that helps patients understand their lab results.
Amazon ...
- Tuesday 10th February - 2:49 pm

Amazon is in discussions with publishing executives about launching a marketplace that would allow publishers to sell their content directly to companies building artificial intelligence products, according to The Information.
The ...
- Tuesday 10th February - 11:28 am

Pay by bank’s practical test has been whether it can scale beyond utilities, gaming and bill pay into everyday commerce.
With Amazon’s Tuesday (Feb. 10) introduction of its Pay by Bank ...
- Friday 6th February - 11:34 am

New tax laws around research and capital investment reduced Amazon’s U.S. corporate income taxes by more than half in 2025, even as the company’s profits rose, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Feb. ...
- Thursday 5th February - 9:34 pm

Amazon’s Q4 earnings call on Thursday (Feb. 5) produced the number everyone repeated: CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon expects to invest about $200 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, “predominantly ...
- Thursday 5th February - 4:01 pm

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Fundamental has teamed with Amazon and raised $255 million.
The company, which has developed a “large tabular model” (LTM) to glean predictions from enterprise data, said Thursday (Feb. ...
- Thursday 5th February - 2:18 pm

Corporate rivalries are traditionally cast in simple, static terms.
Take, for example, the competition between Amazon and Walmart, which has long been described as a clash of two competing models: each giant standing on ...
- Wednesday 4th February - 1:13 pm

Amazon is broadening the role of artificial intelligence (AI) across its business, rolling out a new generation of Alexa, exploring deeper access to OpenAI’s models and applying AI tools inside ...
- Wednesday 4th February - 7:00 am

Smith Corona was once the king of written communications.
For most of the twentieth century, the sound of work and study in America was the clickety‑clack of typewriter keys in offices, ...
- Tuesday 3rd February - 4:56 pm

The world’s newest trillion-dollar company also has a new CEO. And no, it’s not Disney.
And while trillion-dollar market caps might bring to mind visions of big tech hyperscalers, it’s not ...
- Tuesday 3rd February - 11:56 am

Walmart’s market capitalization topped $1 trillion on Tuesday (Feb. 3) after its shares rose as much as 1.6% in early trading and more than doubled over the past two years, ...
- Tuesday 3rd February - 10:44 am

Amazon increased the number of items it delivered to Prime members in the United States the same or next day by 30% in 2025.
The company delivered over 8 billion items ...
- Monday 2nd February - 6:40 pm

Walmart’s paid membership program continued to see double-digit growth in January and ended the month with 28.4 million members, a Morgan Stanley survey found, Seeking Alpha reported Monday (Feb. 2).
Walmart+ membership grew about 12% year over ...
- Sunday 1st February - 8:43 pm

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly large role in corporate layoff announcements.
But according to a report Saturday (Jan. 31) from The New York Times, some skeptics argue that companies ...
- Sunday 1st February - 8:05 pm

Bankrupt department store company Saks Global is ending its eCommerce partnership with Amazon.
That’s according to a Friday (Jan. 30) report from Reuters, which noted that the arrangement between the two ...
- Friday 30th January - 4:45 pm

Amazon’s job cuts announced this week delivered another blow to the tech labor force in the company’s headquarters city of Seattle, which was already losing jobs, Bloomberg reported Friday (Jan. 30).
The 16,000 ...
- Friday 30th January - 10:45 am

Walmart’s appointment of John Furner as its new CEO signals that the retailer intends to expand its digital footprint, Bloomberg reported Friday (Jan. 30).
Furner, who currently leads Walmart US, will ...
- Thursday 29th January - 6:03 pm

Amazon is discussing investing as much as $50 billion in OpenAI, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Jan. 29), citing unnamed sources.
The move that would mark one of the largest ...
- Thursday 29th January - 2:20 pm

Amazon and Walmart are battling on two of the largest, most habitual spending categories in the U.S. economy: grocery and healthcare.
The two largest retailers in the U.S. are rethinking the ...
- Thursday 29th January - 1:45 pm

Walmart-backed FinTech OnePay has debuted a feature letting customers file their taxes through its app.
The new service, announced Wednesday (Jan. 28), is being offered in partnership with embedded tax technology platform april, and ...
- Thursday 29th January - 9:57 am

Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia are among OpenAI’s largest providers of infrastructure.
The three tech giants are also in talks to join the artificial intelligence startup’s $100 billion funding round, the Financial ...
- Wednesday 28th January - 11:36 am

Amazon said Wednesday (Jan. 28) that it is cutting roughly 16,000 jobs across its global workforce, marking one of the largest headcount reductions in the company’s history.
The layoffs place Amazon ...
- Tuesday 27th January - 3:43 pm

Non-profit software company Mozilla reportedly wants to keep the artificial intelligence (AI) industry’s giants in check.
To that end, the company is putting together “a rebel alliance of sorts,” Mozilla President ...
- Tuesday 27th January - 2:57 pm

Amazon is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores while adding more same-day grocery delivery services.
“While we’ve seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven’t yet created ...
- Tuesday 27th January - 6:41 am

eBay is preparing to bar third-party “buy-for-me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without consent.
The ban is part of a recent update to the eCommerce platform’s terms ...
- Thursday 22nd January - 1:55 pm

The modern storefront is no longer a place; it’s a moment. Major retail leaders haven’t waited for shoppers to come knocking on their brick-and-mortar doors for over a decade, and ...
- Thursday 22nd January - 12:32 pm

The Walmart Health Research Institute (WHRI) plans to open four research sites this spring, saying they will make it easier for people to participate in clinical trials.
WHRI will launch the research sites ...
- Wednesday 21st January - 1:55 pm

Royal Bank of Canada and some other banks reportedly launched a loan tied to the takeover of TreeHouse Foods, which supplies Walmart private-label food and beverages, by Investindustrial.
The financing package is a seven-year, $1.25 billion term loan tied to ...
- Tuesday 20th January - 5:55 pm

Amazon has begun rolling out the latest generation of its smart shopping cart.
The newest Dash Cart was introduced in Whole Foods Market stores in three cities last year and will ...
- Tuesday 20th January - 2:20 pm

Amazon’s CEO says White House tariffs have begun showing up in the price of some goods.
The tech giant and many of its third-party sellers bought products ahead of time to fend ...
- Tuesday 20th January - 7:53 am

PhonePe, India’s largest digital payments company, is reportedly closer to going public.
The Walmart-backed firm’s initial public offering (IPO) has gotten the approval of regulators, Reuters reported Tuesday (Jan. 20), citing ...
- Monday 19th January - 3:09 pm

Amazon has launched its first Amazon Now site in the U.K.
That’s according to a recent LinkedIn post from Elisa Michelin Salomon, Amazon’s ops lead for EU quick commerce, and flagged ...
- Friday 16th January - 3:29 pm

Walmart Inc. named new leaders of Walmart U.S., Walmart International and Sam’s Club U.S.
David Guggina, executive vice president and chief eCommerce officer for Walmart U.S., will become president and CEO ...