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Amazon has launched an education program for college students centered around its cloud computing business. Student Rewards on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Builder Center, gives students access to earn AWS, 12 months ...

Walmart’s affordability push is showing up in what shoppers are buying, with transactions and unit volumes rising as the retailer cut prices on everything from ground beef and groceries to ...

Amazon hopes to offer drone deliveries in nearly 500 U.S. communities by year-end. That will mark a sixfold increase for Amazon’s Prime Air service, the company announced Wednesday (Aug. 19), as it targets metro ...

Walmart reports earnings Thursday (Aug. 20), and it enters with a valuable retail advantage that looks both powerful and underused. It captures the weekly grocery trip, yet Amazon increasingly captures what ...

Walmart’s investors are counting on the company’s ad business to drive profits as same-store sales growth has cooled and the company’s stock has fallen on a cautious annual outlook, Reuters ...

America’s biggest retailers are about to turn a weak government sales report into a six-company test of consumer endurance. U.S. retail and food service sales fell 0.6% in July, the first ...

Amazon’s latest Alexa demonstration looked almost trivial: photograph a refrigerator, ask what groceries are missing, and let artificial intelligence assemble the shopping list. But for Walmart, it represents a considerably bigger ...

Amazon has added 750 Locker locations at more than 500 college and university campuses across the United States, the company said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) press release. Students can have eligible orders delivered to ...

Amazon’s $3 trillion valuation, achieved this week, is being treated as an artificial intelligence and cloud computing milestone. For retail leaders, it should be read as a broader signal that ...

A federal appeals court has handed the artificial intelligence (AI) industry a potentially significant early victory in the development of the law regarding agentic commerce. In a unanimous opinion issued ...

When it comes to retail shopping, consumers are largely using artificial intelligence as a shortcut through the growing complexity of eCommerce rather than as a replacement for making their own ...

Walmart has completed its acquisition of self-service streaming TV advertising platform Vibe.co. The deal will help Walmart’s commerce media business Walmart Connect bring to market new and differentiated ways for advertisers ...

Amazon joined several of its fellow tech giants in the $3 trillion club, Reuters reported Monday (Aug. 3). The company’s market value exceeded that figure for the first time Monday after ...

Amazon completed a $50 billion investment in OpenAI that the two companies announced in February. Amazon said in a Friday (July 31) filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that after ...

Amazon’s decision this week to scale back parts of its homegrown artificial intelligence portfolio has been taken by the marketplace as a retreat from the frontier-model competition. That’s only partly true. ...

Amazon has reportedly uncovered instances of “catastrophically expensive” cost overruns caused by errors in AI deployment. That’s according to a report Thursday (July 30) from the Financial Times (FT), citing multiple sources familiar with ...

Amazon is reportedly phasing out several in-house artificial intelligence (AI) models in a larger AI overhaul. The tech giant is also reorganizing teams and having engineers focus on a new strategy ...

Google parent Alphabet last week reported an 82% increase in cloud computing revenue. Investors, however, were more concerned with the company’s artificial intelligence spending, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (July 26), arguing ...

TikTok is reportedly testing a membership program for U.S. shoppers, similar to Amazon Prime. That’s according to a report Friday (July 24) from Business Insider, citing screenshots of the offering seen ...

This summer, Amazon moved Prime Day to June 23-26, leaving July without its usual commercial centerpiece for the first time outside the pandemic-disrupted 2021 event.  The shift created an apparent hole ...

Amazon’s founder reportedly sees Prime Video as the place to tout the company’s AI efforts. Jeff Bezos has urged Prime Video boss Mike Hopkins to revamp the streaming service to give artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Amazon has cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence (AGI) group, Reuters reported Wednesday (July 22). The move follows Amazon’s consolidation of AGI work into part of a larger group that ...

U.S. consumers kept spending in June, but the mix shows why Walmart and Amazon are leaning harder into price as the back-to-school season begins. The Commerce Department’s June retail sales report showed ...

A weekly grocery run seems like the perfect opportunity to fill a shopping cart with everything else a household needs. New data suggests consumers increasingly see it differently. A recent PYMNTS ...

Amazon Business now offers Prime Business customers in Spain some new artificial intelligence-powered features, according to a Monday (July 13) press release translated by Google. The features help purchasing, finance and ...

Retail is getting a first-principles upgrade at the hands, or lack of them, of artificial intelligence. The shopping transformation looks less like a better eCommerce search bar and more like something ...

Retailers found a way to get inflation-weary Americans to buy in June. The question is how much it cost them. Amazon’s four-day Prime Day pulled into late June and was quickly ...

Amazon has expanded the price history function of its agentic artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant. Alexa for Shopping now shows 30, 90, and 365 days of price history, “so customers can ...

The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (Aspen FSP) has launched a new effort focused on reducing the scale and severity of scams affecting Americans. The Scam Prevention Initiative aims to improve ...

Amazon is highlighting the fuel savings benefits of Prime membership with a limited-time promotion that offers 50 cents per gallon off one fuel purchase over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The promotion runs ...

American shoppers spent more than $26.4 billion on this year’s Amazon Prime Day. That’s a 9.3% increase over last year’s eCommerce event, Reuters reported Saturday (June 27), citing Adobe Analytics data. ...

Amazon became the largest retailer in the United States in terms of gross merchandise value sometime in 2025, overtaking Walmart, Seeking Alpha reported Thursday (June 25), citing a report by ...

European regulators say Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud businesses should fall under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European Commission said in a Wednesday (June 24) press release that it had informed both tech giants ...

Running a small business can take up a big chunk of its owner’s time. Even something as simple as ordering the breakroom snacks each month can add up, and as ...

Swiss eCommerce logistics provider MS Direct, which moves more than 32 million items a year, has deployed a robot from Stuttgart-based Sereact that picks and packs orders without per-item training, ...

Walmart is integrating its advertising operations into one framework amid growing ad revenue. The retail giant on Monday (June 22) announced plans to align tools, tech and platforms across its U.S. and international ...

Prime Day is built for scale. Smallbatch Pets is built around the opposite idea: raw and freeze-dried pet food made in small batches from humanely raised meats and organic produce. From ...

Amazon says its Alexa+ voice assistant is now available to customers in Brazil. It’s part of an ongoing rollout of the upgraded Alexa that began earlier this year, and is scheduled to ...

For years, the rivalry between Amazon and Walmart was easy to understand. One company dominated eCommerce, the other dominated physical retail. Their competition revolved around familiar metrics: market share, delivery ...

Amazon artificial intelligence executive Peter DeSantis reportedly said Wednesday (June 17) that the first “commercially useful small-scale” quantum computers will appear five to seven years from now. DeSantis, who is the ...

Amazon invested in and launched a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Odyssey, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (June 17). The tech giant took part in a $310 million funding round for ...

Summer in the United States has acquired a new seasonal ritual. Apply sunscreen, overpay for iced coffee, and receive 47 alerts that a cordless vacuum has entered its “lowest price ever” ...

June will be a big month for omnichannel retailer promotions. Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kohl’s and Staples have each announced sales events that begin this month and overlap or partially overlap. Chain Store Age reported on the events in a ...

Ecosystems now scale more efficiently than stores, and that new reality is transforming retail. Amazon announced Wednesday (June 10) that it is expanding its Supply Chain Services platform with a less-than-truckload ...

Businesses of all sizes can now use Amazon’s less-than-truckload (LTL) service to move freight into their own warehouses, between their own facilities, and to their retail partners and distributors. This represents ...