Amazon Web Services (AWS), the unit of Amazon, announced Thursday (May 31) that it rolled out pay-per-session pricing for Amazon QuickSight, its cloud-powered business analytics service. In a press release, AWS said QuickSight enables anyone within a company, regardless of skill, to create visualizations, perform ad...
Democratic Representatives Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri are demanding answers from Amazon as to how its facial recognition technology dubbed Rekognition is being used by law enforcement agencies around the country. The Intercept, citing a letter sent late last week to...
Amazon announced news on Wednesday (May 9) of the opening of Amazon Experience Centers within some Lennar model homes across the United States, in which the eCommece giant is showcasing Alexa-enabled smart home functions. In a press release, Amazon said in these Alexa-enabled smart homes,...
Amazon has a new patent in its portfolio – this time for technology that allows self-driving trucks to interface with drones, Chain Store Age reported. The patent, which was filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2014, focuses on the final leg of deliveries....
Amazon’s revenue should get a boost thanks to its Alexa voice-activated devices. That’s according to RBC Capital Markets, which, according to CNBC, reaffirmed its outperform rating on the eCommerce leader. RBC is bullish on Alexa’s prospects to add to Amazon’s financial results, following a recent...
Amazon has sparked a price war in the voice-activated smart speaker market that helped make its Echo Dot the number one product on its website during Black Friday. The price cuts by the eCommerce giant are prompting rivals to follow suit with their own devices....
Commerce is becoming ever more linked — between nations and across time zones and gadgets. Amid all the change in commerce and payments (already), can Amazon’s Alexa help transform the call center? It’s no secret that voice-activated commerce is a space marked by giants, especially...
Amazon.com said on Tuesday (Nov. 28) that the holiday shopping weekend kick-off was the best ever for its devices, with millions sold from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. In a press release announcing the news, the Seattle, Washington-based eCommerce giant said the voice-activated speaker, Echo Dot,...
Whole Foods Market and Amazon announced news on Thursday (Nov. 9) that customers can now shop for Amazon devices at more than 199 Whole Foods Market retail locations. In a press release, the companies said a slew of Amazon products will be available to purchase,...
