Amazon has a brand-new product that will deliver packages right to consumers’ doors. Named Scout, it’s a robot on six wheels about the size of a small cooler, the retail giant said in a blog post on Wednesday (Jan. 23). “At Amazon, we continually invest...
Tech giants like Facebook, Apple, Google, Twitter and Microsoft spent $64 million last year in the hopes of helping to influence regulations and combat increased scrutiny from U.S. politicians, according to a report in The Washington Post. Google spent the most at $21 million. Last...
There are north of 70,000 Alexa skills on the market today, capable of helping consumers do everything from booking an Uber to buying their groceries to playing a trivia game to kill some time while waiting for the pizza ordered via Alexa to arrive. But the ongoing challenge...
Amazon, which is expanding its in-house delivery network dubbed Amazon Shipping, is wooing customers by offering fees lower than those charged by traditional carriers such as FedEx and United Parcel Service (UPS). According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, citing an email sent...
Amazon is getting ready to launch the fulfillment and delivery network it has long been eyeing in Brazil, reported Reuters. Citing Amazon Country Manager Brazil Alex Szapiro, Reuters reported that the launch was delayed because of logistics and a complex tax system but now it...
Amazon has been heavily courting some direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands – inviting them to its headquarters, paying for dinner and letting them fill their carts with gear from Amazon Go shops. However, according to a report in Digiday, some of these brands don’t want anything to...
Indian company Reliance Industries plans to open an eCommerce site geared toward small retailers, one that would rival Amazon and Flipkart, Financial Times reported on Friday (Jan. 18). When speaking at a conference about investments in Gujarat, Chairman Mukesh Ambani said he planned to launch...
Amazon Stores, a program that lets Amazon sellers curate pages for their brands and products, has helped more than 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) do more than $500,000 in sales across the globe in 2018, the company announced on Friday (Jan. 18). SMBs that...
Kroger’s smart shelving pilot is in its very early phases. The massive grocery conglomerate, which is the parent firm behind some 2,780 stores in the U.S., has so far fewer than 100 stores carrying the digitally-equipped shelves Kroger co-developed with Microsoft. But according to Kroger’s...
