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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.
Whole Paycheck Tracker: Amazon And Fashion Make A Sleek Outfit
September 18, 2020
The year was 2016. Captain America and Star Wars ruled the movies. Justin Bieber and Drake topped the pop charts. Brexit and the U.S. presidential election dominated the news. And ... Read moreGrocery Round-Up: Amazon Fresh Opens, Whole Foods Cuts Prices And The US Grocery Sales Boom Slows Down
September 17, 2020
The only constant in the world of selling groceries of late seems to be the constant change. The long-awaited first Amazon Fresh brick-and-mortar store officially opened for business in Los ... Read moreAmazon Plans Massive Suburban Expansion To Speed Up Delivery
September 16, 2020
An Amazon delivery hub may be coming soon to a suburb near you.
The world’s largest retailer plans to open 1,000 mini delivery hubs in suburbs and cities across the country, ... Read moreSnyder Links With Amazon, Others To Boost AR Automation
September 15, 2020
Finance and bookkeeping smart app Snyder is integrating with a variety of big eCommerce companies, including Shopify, Amazon, eBay and Ecwid, to help eCommerce businesses with accounts receivable (AR) and ... Read moreStandard Chartered, Amazon To Offer Installment Payments In UAE
September 15, 2020
Standard Chartered and Amazon.ae, the company’s United Arab Emirates website, are launching a new installment payments method for customers, according to The Fintech Times.
Standard Chartered cardholders will now be able ... Read moreNew Math: Walmart+ Doesn’t Equal Amazon Prime
September 15, 2020
Walmart watchers are out in force today with the launch of subscription service Walmart+. While it has been widely touted as a hedge against Amazon Prime’s runaway growth, when the ... Read moreAmazon Primes The Fashion Pump With Luxury Stores
September 15, 2020
It’s not exactly a Prime Day announcement, but Amazon at least saved something to counter the Walmart+ launch on Tuesday. Today (Sept. 15) marked the launch of Amazon’s long-rumored Luxury ... Read moreEx-Uber Jump Manager Joins Amazon's eBike Unit
September 14, 2020
Amazon has poached former Uber manager Alex Vickers and Justin Ginsburgh, known for starting New York’s Citi Bike bikeshare service, to helm its eBike delivery team, CNBC reported.
The move may ... Read moreBig Tech Compliance Tracker: Japan Fair Trade Commission Receives Amazon Japan’s Improvement Blueprint; Italy’s Competition Regulator AGCM Probes Cloud Platforms
September 14, 2020
Here’s the latest news for Big Techs Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google, which are coming under increasing scrutiny from regulators and officials.
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Amazon Japan Provides Watchdog With Improvement Plan
Amazon Japan has provided the nation’s fair-trade watchdog ... Read moreVC Firm Brings Partnership Model To Amazon Sellers
September 14, 2020
There are more than a few mind-blowing stats about Amazon, most of them having to do with its 44 percent of the eCommerce market, or maybe the $88.9 billion in ... Read more
Amazon Tells Sellers To Ship On Prime 2-Day Schedule
August 18, 2020
Amazon wants third-party sellers to step up their game and deliver at the same speed as the company’s own Prime program, CNBC reported.
The company said it would be requiring members ... Read moreTrump Calls For Amazon To Cover Post Office Costs With Higher Rates
August 18, 2020
President Donald Trump said Tuesday (Aug. 18) that Amazon should pay more in shipping to cover the lagging finances of the U.S. Postal Service, Bloomberg reported.
Trump repeated a false claim ... Read moreAmazon Expands Grocery Delivery In The UK
July 28, 2020
Amazon Inc. is planning to expand Amazon Fresh, its grocery delivery service, to millions of members in the United Kingdom (U.K.) by year’s end, the company announced.
Starting Tuesday (July 28) ... Read moreAmazon Introduces Bigger Trucks For Pandemic-Era Deliveries
July 10, 2020
Amazon has launched a new style of truck that is bigger and boxier, similar to those used by competitors at the United Parcel Service (UPS), Reuters reported.
The company is working ... Read moreAmazon Adds 35 Cities To Its Flex Delivery In India
June 18, 2020
Amazon India has expanded its Amazon Flex delivery network to 35 cities across the country, The Hindu reported. The delivery service was started last year in three cities.
An Amazon website ... Read moreAmazon Joins Competitive Food Delivery Market In India
May 21, 2020
Seattle-based Amazon is ramping up its operations in India’s growing market by launching Amazon Food, which will deliver prepared meals. The company already offers grocery delivery in many Indian cities.
Competitors include ... Read moreAmazon Grocery Deliveries Move Into Fast Lane Again
May 13, 2020
The waitlist to get a time slot on Amazon Fresh, Amazon’s grocery delivery arm, is now largely gone, a sign that the eCommerce giant is past bottlenecks caused by the ... Read moreAmazon Puts New Online Grocery Customers On Hold
April 13, 2020
New customers for Amazon grocery delivery will be directed to a waitlist, the company said on Sunday (April 12).
In addition, hours at some physical locations of Whole Foods stores have ... Read moreAmazon Pulls Plug On Its Shipping Service
April 8, 2020
Amazon is suspending its shipping service because it needs those workers for more pressing tasks, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Tuesday (April 7).
A competitor ... Read morePandemic Prompts Amazon To Shutter Prime Pantry For Now
March 19, 2020
As online shopping soars due to the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon made the decision to temporarily close Prime Pantry, according to a report by CNBC Thursday (March 19).
A notice posted by ... Read more
What Clues Can Last Year's Results Offer For Amazon’s 2019 Alexa Event?
September 24, 2019
Amazon has always been a “go big or go home” kind of operation, and so when it rolled out a dozen or so Alexa-enabled devices – embedded in sound systems, ... Read moreBezos Expects Robotic Hands To Be Ready Within 10 Years
June 7, 2019
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that he believes robotic hands, which should be able to grasp items as reliably as humans, will be ready for commercial use in the next ... Read moreAlexa Can Now Listen For Intruders
May 14, 2019
Amazon rolled out Alexa Guard in the U.S. on Tuesday (May 14), enabling Echo speakers to listen for intruders and other dangers and alert users to them.
As reported by The ... Read moreAmazon Launches Lending Referral Program In China
May 9, 2019
Amazon has launched a new lending service in China dubbed Lending Referral Program, which is open to select merchants that sell products on its site.
According to a report in CNBC citing ... Read moreAmazon's Alexa Now Offers HIPAA-Compliant Skills
April 4, 2019
Amazon just entered a whole new market now that Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, is HIPAA-compliant, which it means it can handle patients’ sensitive information.
In a blog post, Amazon announced an invitation-only ... Read moreAmazon Aims To Offer Global Broadband From Space
April 4, 2019
Amazon is gearing up to provide broadband access to the world by relying on satellites orbiting in space.
According to a report in GeekWire citing three sets of filings made to ... Read moreIs Amazon Planning A 'Megafleet' For Electric Delivery?
February 22, 2019
Pretty much anything Amazon does impacts so much else — and that truth, one of the longest-standing in the world of commerce and payments, seems ready to play out when ... Read moreAmazon Patent Enables Alexa To Detect Illness Via Voice
October 15, 2018
Amazon is trying to make Alexa, its voice-activated personal assistant, act as a doctor or nurse, detecting illness by a change in the user’s voice.
The Next Web reported the company ... Read moreAmazon Unveils Fire TV Cube With Alexa
June 7, 2018
To allow users to control their television using Alexa, Amazon is rolling out the Amazon Fire TV Cube. The device, which is available for preorder starting on Thursday (June 7), ... Read moreAmazon’s AI 'Rekognition' Technology Identified Royal Wedding Celebrity Guests
May 21, 2018
Amazon helped viewers of this weekend’s royal wedding identify celebrity guests using artificial intelligence (AI).
According to The Motley Fool, those watching the wedding via U.K. broadcaster Sky News’ livestream were ... Read more
Finding Voice Commerce’s ‘Hero’ Use Case
September 10, 2020
COVID-19 has unexpectedly acted as a major boon to the voice commerce ecosystem. Amazon Pay Head of Product Kris Zanuldin told Karen Webster in a recent conversation that we’re seeing ... Read moreAmazon Debuts Alexa For Property Managers
September 3, 2020
Amazon has introduced a service that vows to make it easy for property managers to install and manage Alexa-powered smart devices in their properties, the company announced on its blog ... Read moreReport: Amazon Slows Alexa Staff Hiring To Improve Margin
August 20, 2020
Amazon has put some hiring on hold in its Alexa operation amid the pandemic, Bloomberg reported, citing two unnamed sources.
The change reportedly started just past the time that COVID-19 severely ... Read moreAlexa Hitches A Ride To Big Auto’s Voice Commerce Future
August 17, 2020
Is it a Buick or an Alexa? That’s the question a new Buick commercial poses as it shows a couple out on the town, debating whether they’re riding in a ... Read moreWEX Adds Alexa Capabilities To ClearView Snap To Further Help Fleet Managers
August 13, 2020
FinTech service provider WEX has introduced a new ClearView Snap capability with Amazon Alexa to help fleet managers look at insights and improve decision making by way of a verbal ... Read moreAlexa Could Spill Users’ Personal Data, Report Finds
August 13, 2020Alexa, how could you?
Check Point researchers have flagged a flaw in Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant platform, which could it to spill the beans on all sorts of personal data when ... Read moreAlexa, What's The Future Of Voice Commerce?
August 5, 2020
The present tense for voice commerce shows an eager and accelerated installed base with 90 million devices in the U.S. But as with everything digital these days, the future is ... Read more5 Ways Voice Technology Is Increasingly Making Itself Heard
August 3, 2020
Voice technology is among the things that have gotten a big boost from the global pandemic as consumers shift to buying things online and avoiding touching items in public places ... Read moreAmazon To Unveil New Alexa App With Custom Home Screen
July 27, 2020
Amazon is launching a revamped Alexa app that will now include a customized homescreen based on what each individual user does the most on the app, CNBC reported.
The update is ... Read moreWhole Paycheck Tracker: Holiday Shapes Up To Be A Battle Royale
July 24, 2020
This week, the battle for the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck is more like a boxing match. In this corner, the brick-and-mortar champion, Walmart. And in the opposite corner, the online ... Read more