Amazon-owned eero has introduced a device that provides dedicated cellular backup connectivity for the user’s eero network when a primary interconnection goes down. The eero Signal 4G LTE is compatible with USB-C-powered Wi-Fi 6 or greater eeros and eero PoE Gateway, the company said in...
Amazon is enhancing its health-related offerings by expanding the geographic range of its same-day prescription delivery service and by launching a beta feature that helps patients understand their lab results. Amazon Pharmacy’s same-day prescription delivery service will add two more states, Idaho and Massachusetts, and...
The 21st century retail battle is no longer being waged primarily over assortment, price, or even brand equity. Retail sales are down, and retailers are leaning on payments, data and personalization to fill the gap. On Tuesday (Feb. 10), the U.S. Department of Commerce released...
Pay by bank’s practical test has been whether it can scale beyond utilities, gaming and bill pay into everyday commerce. With Amazon’s Tuesday (Feb. 10) introduction of its Pay by Bank service to customers in the United Kingdom, pay by bank’s reach has gotten a...
“I think [our] arrogance and disruption got us into trouble,” Scott Painter tells PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. It is a rare admission from a founder who spent nearly two decades insisting that the car-buying process was broken and that radical price transparency was the fix....
New tax laws around research and capital investment reduced Amazon’s U.S. corporate income taxes by more than half in 2025, even as the company’s profits rose, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Feb. 6). Amazon’s current U.S. taxes declined from $9 billion to $1.2 billion, and its federal income taxes...
Amazon’s Q4 earnings call on Thursday (Feb. 5) produced the number everyone repeated: CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon expects to invest about $200 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, “predominantly in AWS,” to add capacity for AI and core cloud workloads. But the call wasn’t...
Apparel, accessories and cosmetics companies are focusing on higher-income consumers, Reuters reported Thursday (Feb. 5). Companies targeting these consumers with stepped-up ad campaigns and premium products, according to the report. Among them are Estée Lauder, which introduced new luxury price tiers and increased its marketing; Ralph...
Corporate rivalries are traditionally cast in simple, static terms. Take, for example, the competition between Amazon and Walmart, which has long been described as a clash of two competing models: each giant standing on its respective side of digital-native versus physical-first, growth versus efficiency, and Prime versus price....