The possibility of Amazon and Yelp combining forces has been bandied about for a while … and now it’s starting to bear fruit. On Amazon.com, the “What’s New” section in the description of Amazon Echo — the company’s voice-enabled robotic assistant — now includes mention that...
Amazon’s Q3 earnings announcement is a tale of two companies. One year ago, Amazon’s quarterly results were so bad that even The New York Times was mocking the company with its report, which kicked off with a snarky lede: “The chickens are not coming home to roost at Amazon just yet,...
More than three months after the event, sales figures from Amazon Prime Day have emerged to perhaps settle the issue of varying perspectives between customers and the company. Market research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), via CNET, has released the results of a poll...
Amazon Prime Now restaurant delivery has entered another city close to home. Just last month, Amazon Prime Now launched the service in Seattle — and now it has landed in Portland. This means that customers in Portland can order free delivery from local restaurants and...
Amazon might still be a baby in the grand scheme of Indian eCommerce markets, but it’s giving well-established local companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal a run for their money with its special offers for Diwali, the widely celebrated Indian festival of lights. The Seattle, Washington-based company, which...
Come November, it will literally be raining gold in prizes for some Indian consumers. The prizes are for consumers shopping through Amazon for Diwali, a widely celebrated Indian festival that attracts huge commerce opportunities for retailers. To brace for it, Amazon has lined up 1 million products...
The ongoing battle between Amazon and Etsy rages on. Yesterday (Oct. 7), PYMNTS reported how handmade eCommerce merchant Etsy is making some moves on small manufacturing to fend off Amazon and its announced intention to enter the wonderful world of artisanal arts and crafts with its...
Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-based business intelligence platform. In a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release, Amazon said that the service enables “employees, regardless of their technical skill, to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis” and glean fast insights into...
Apple TV and Chromecast enthusiasts need not apply. That was the message out of Amazon this week – when the eCommerce (and delivery, and video streaming, and Web services, and grocery, and on-demand, and IoT) company announced that going forward it will no longer be...
