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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is a multinational technology company focusing in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence in Seattle, Washington.
Amazon Targets Continuous Connectivity With Globalstar Satellite Network Deal
April 14, 2026
Amazon plans to expand the capabilities of the Amazon Leo low Earth orbit satellite network by acquiring mobile satellite services operator Globalstar. The two companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon ...Read moreNearly Four in Ten Financially Stressed Shoppers Choose Walmart Over Amazon
April 14, 2026
At the checkout counter, the biggest shift may not be how much consumers buy, but where they choose to buy it and which payment tools help them stretch each purchase ...Read moreOpenAI Touts Amazon Partnership in Shift Away From Microsoft
April 13, 2026
OpenAI is reportedly enjoying the fruits of its partnership with Amazon. As CNBC reported Monday (April 13), company revenue chief Denise Dresser praised the collaboration in a memo to staff Sunday ...Read moreAmazon Autos Ramps Up Focus on New Car Sales
April 13, 2026
Amazon is reportedly expanding its car-selling program as it focuses on partnerships with automotive dealers. The company’s Amazon Autos service, which began with a collaboration with Hyundai, has grown to include Chevrolet, Jeep, Kia, Mazda and Subaru, ...Read moreAWS Is Leaving Revenue on the Table Due to Power Shortages, Jassy Says
April 9, 2026
Amazon will continue to bet big on artificial intelligence (AI), Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a 2025 Letter to Shareholders posted Thursday (April 9). Jassy said that while investment spikes invite scrutiny, AI is a ...Read moreThe Battle for AI Isn’t About Models. It’s About Habits
April 9, 2026
Think about how you shop. Not how you used to shop, but how you actually shop now. You probably do most of it on Amazon. Not all of it. You ...Read moreAmazon’s Pricing Tactics Allegedly Lead Brands to Yank Items
April 7, 2026
Certain brands are reportedly having a harder time selling on Amazon these days. As The Information reported Tuesday (April 7), the eCommerce giant has in recent months brushed off requests from wholesale suppliers to increase ...Read moreAmazon Reaffirms USPS Logistics Partnership
April 6, 2026
Amazon said Monday (April 6) that it has reached a new deal with the United States Postal Service (USPS) in which the postal agency will continue to make 80% of the package ...Read morePerplexity Asks Federal Court to Lift Amazon Shopping Agent Ban
April 3, 2026
Perplexity went to a federal appeals court on Wednesday (April 1) seeking to overturn an injunction that bars its artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agent, Comet, from accessing Amazon, according to ...Read moreAmazon Schedules Fuel Surcharges Across Multiple Fulfillment Services
April 2, 2026Sellers using Amazon’s shipping services will be required to pay a fuel and logistics-related surcharge, the company said in a Thursday (April 2) post on Amazon Seller Central. The surcharge will amount to 3.5% and will be calculated on ...Read more
Amazon Considers Future of Delivery Network, US Postal Service Partnership
December 4, 2025Amazon is reportedly evaluating its delivery network after talks with the U.S. Postal Service stalled. If Amazon expands its network, the move would make Amazon the country’s most ubiquitous delivery service and present ...Read moreAmazon Testing Half-Hour Delivery in Two Cities
December 2, 2025
Amazon is testing ultra-fast delivery of groceries and essential items in two U.S. cities. The program, offering deliveries within around 30 minutes or less, is being piloted in parts of Philadelphia ...Read moreAmazon Equips Drivers With Smart Glasses as It Deepens AI Fulfillment Investments
October 22, 2025
Amazon said on October 22 in a press release that it is equipping its delivery drivers with AI-powered smart glasses to accelerate last-mile logistics, part of a broader operational overhaul ...Read moreAmazon: New Delivery Drone Has ‘Double the Range and Half the Noise’
December 11, 2024
Amazon launched a new delivery drone that has “double the range and half the noise” of any of its predecessors. The new MK30 drone received Federal Aviation Administration approval to begin ...Read moreAmazon Tests 15-Minute-or-Less Grocery Delivery in India
December 10, 2024
Amazon is reportedly testing 15-minute-or-less grocery deliveries as it takes on Walmart in India. The eCommerce giant is joining a wave of “quick commerce” companies promising super-fast deliveries of products such ...Read moreAmazon Adds Earned Wage Access Offering for Delivery Service Partners
September 12, 2024
Amazon invested another $2.1 billion in its Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program designed to help small business entrepreneurs build delivery companies. This addition brings the amount the company has invested in ...Read moreNLRB Rules Amazon Is ‘Joint Employer’ of Subcontracted Delivery Drivers
August 22, 2024
Amazon is reportedly under scrutiny as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concluded that a group of subcontracted delivery drivers in Southern California were employees of Amazon itself. The labor board ...Read moreAmazon Pharmacy Expands Same-Day Delivery to New York, Los Angeles
March 26, 2024
Amazon Pharmacy expanded its same-day delivery of prescription medication to New York City and the greater Los Angeles area. These cities join five others in which this service is already available: Austin, ...Read moreAmazon Opens Grocery Delivery Program to Non-Prime Customers
November 9, 2023
Amazon is expanding its grocery delivery/pickup program to include shoppers who aren’t Prime subscribers. The retail giant is making grocery delivery and free pickup available to all customers in any U.S. ...Read moreAmazon Pays Customers For Pickup to Cut Delivery Costs
May 9, 2023
Amazon is offering customers a deal to lower delivery costs: Pick up your items, get $10. As Reuters reported Monday (May 8), the eCommerce giant has recently begun emailing Prime subscribers ...Read more
Amazon Reportedly Developing In-House Answer to ChatGPT
June 25, 2024
Amazon is reportedly developing its own artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The project is code-named “Metis,” Business Insider reported Monday (June 24), noting that the name seems inspired ...Read moreAmazon Beta Launches Generative AI Shopping Assistant Rufus
February 1, 2024
Amazon has beta launched a new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistant. Dubbed “Rufus,” the assistant is now available to a small subset of customers using the Amazon mobile app and will ...Read moreAmazon Unveils Alexa Features to Help Seniors, Caregivers
May 11, 2022
Amazon has unveiled two features for the Alexa Together function on its Alexa devices designed to help older people and their caregivers. In an announcement posted on its website Wednesday (May ...Read moreCashierless Tech, Starbucks Deal Put Amazon in QSR Business
November 18, 2021
The rumors are true: Amazon is making moves into the quick-service restaurant (QSR) space, partnering with Starbucks to bring its “Just Walk Out” frictionless checkout technology into the latter’s stores. ...Read moreLondon Opens First Market Outside of US To Use Amazon’s Cashierless Tech
November 16, 2021
London is opening the first market outside of the U.S. to use Amazon’s white-labeled Just Walk Out technology, Bloomberg reported Monday (Nov. 15), citing sources who said that Amazon Sainsbury’s ...Read moreAmazon One Palm Scanning Tech Moves Into Entertainment With AXS Collab
September 14, 2021
Amazon is taking its palm scanning technology, Amazon One, out of the retail aisles and into entertainment venues through a partnership with ticketing solutions firm AXS. The collaboration brings the “first-ever ...Read moreAmazon to Pilot ‘Just Walk Out’ Tech at Whole Foods Locations
September 8, 2021
Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology will be trialed at Whole Foods locations in Washington, D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood and Sherman Oaks, California, giving shoppers the option of skipping the checkout ...Read moreAmazon Mulls Alexa Wearables For Children
July 14, 2021
Amazon is looking into developing Alexa-powered wearable GPS-equipped devices for children aged 4-12, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday (July 14). The new wearable, which is code-named Seeker, could be a wristband, keychain or ...Read moreVodafone, Amazon To Bring Speedy 5G ‘Edge Computing’ Services To UK Businesses
June 16, 2021
Vodafone and Amazon Web Services are partnering to bring so-called “edge computing” to business customers in the U.K. Edge computing quickly analyzes bulk data — collected from, say, the factory ...Read moreAmazon, Tile Team Up To Compete With Apple AirTags
May 7, 2021
Amazon has announced new partnerships in hopes of enhancing its connected devices to compete with products such as Apple AirTags. The company said Friday it had formed partnerships with Tile, which ...Read more
Amazon Chooses UK for Alexa+ European Debut
March 19, 2026
Amazon has brought Alexa+ to the U.K., the first European country to receive the AI voice assistant. Alexa+ is now available across Great Britain as part of an early access program, ...Read moreAmazon Starts Nationwide Rollout of Alexa+ One Year After Soft Launch
February 4, 2026
Amazon is broadening the role of artificial intelligence (AI) across its business, rolling out a new generation of Alexa, exploring deeper access to OpenAI’s models and applying AI tools inside ...Read moreBig Tech Pivots to AI Infrastructure, Commercial Deployment and Drug Discovery
January 14, 2026
Big Tech companies moved this week to solidify their control over the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, launching initiatives that range from massive data-center expansions to specialized tools for retail and ...Read moreAmazon Comes After Siri With Alexa+ Web and Mobile Browser
January 5, 2026Amazon advanced Alexa beyond its device roots Monday (Jan. 5) with a browser-based expansion of Alexa+ and made product announcements at CES 2026 focused on Fire TV and the Bee ...Read moreAmazon Pushes Alexa Into Full Agent Mode
December 8, 2025
Agentic AI’s intersection with devices like phones, speakers and personal assistants hadn’t been visited much in the Prompt Economy. At least that was the case, up until last week when ...Read moreAmazon Says Customers Saved ‘Billions’ During Extended Prime Day
July 13, 2025
Amazon says its longest Prime Day sale was also its biggest. The eCommerce giant announced Saturday (July 12) that its yearly summer sale produced record sales and savings in its newly ...Read moreAmazon Cuts 100 Jobs in Devices Unit Amid Ongoing Efficiency Drive
May 14, 2025
Amazon reportedly cut about 100 jobs in its devices and services unit, saying it did so as part of a regular business review. The layoffs amount to a small portion of ...Read moreAmazon’s Alexa+ Voice Assistant Draws 100,000 Users as Rollout Continues
May 2, 2025
Amazon has rolled out Alexa+, the new version of its voice assistant, to more than 100,000 users so far, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday (May 1) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Alexa+ will ...Read moreCustomer First, Agentic AI Next. Amazon Lays Out Its 2025 Roadmap
May 1, 2025
Most earnings announcements and ensuing analyst calls are spent discussing all the money — or lack of it — the host company made during the previous quarter. Not so at ...Read moreApple’s Siri: Once a Pioneer, Now an AI Laggard
March 20, 2025
When Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Siri, debuted in 2011, it was revolutionary for giving users the ability to “talk” to their smartphone. Siri’s capabilities were made possible by machine ...Read more