Amazon says it achieved its fastest delivery speeds ever for its Prime members last year. The eCommerce giant announced Tuesday (Feb. 4) that it delivered more than 9 billion items via same-day or next-day delivery in 2024. “And it’s not just time that customers are saving, Prime members...
Amazon’s communications department is reportedly the latest segment of the company’s corporate workforce to see layoffs. The company is laying off dozens of people in the department, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Jan. 29). “Following a recent review, we’re making some changes to the Communications & Corporate Responsibility...
Amazon reportedly faces a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges the company tracked consumers’ movements through their cellphones and sold the data it collected. The complaint alleges that an Amazon Ads SDK embedded in apps by tens of thousands of app developers enabled Amazon to...
Amazon will shut down its “Prime Try Before You Buy” service on Jan. 31, according to a notice on the company’s website. The Information reported the ending of the service Friday (Jan. 10), saying Amazon launched the service in 2017, allowing Prime members to order clothing, try it...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest at least $11 billion in Georgia to expand infrastructure to support cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The investment is expected to create at least 550 new skilled jobs and bolster the state’s position as technology hub,...
Amazon is partnering with automotive dealers and brands to bring the Amazon experience to the car-buying process. As of Tuesday (Dec. 10), with this Amazon Autos offering, shoppers in 48 U.S. cities can buy new Hyundai vehicles from local participating dealers on Amazon, the company...
Amazon saw record sales and a record number of items sold during its Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event. The company’s event ran from Nov. 21 through Monday (Dec. 2) and was bigger than any previous 12-day period ending on Cyber Monday,...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) says its data transfer terminal offering has gone online. The terminals, announced in a blog post on Sunday (Dec. 1), provide a physical location where users can bring storage devices to upload data more quickly to the AWS cloud. The first...
Amazon Web Services says it’s helping the U.K.’s most famous broadcaster move to the cloud. The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) will embark on this transformation using RISE with SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company said in a news release Wednesday (Nov. 27). “As...
