Amazon innovations

Amazon Dash Goes Open-Source For In-Home IoT Dominance
Amazon Dash Goes Open-Source For In-Home IoT Dominance
May 16, 2016  |  Amazon

Amazon released its one-click, one-purchase Dash Buttons and its voice-activated Echo just months apart in 2015, but the latter has emerged as not only the...

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Amazon Expands Private-Label Footprint
Amazon Expands Private-Label Footprint
May 16, 2016  |  Amazon

As Amazon has grown larger, so too have the complaints from brands that aren’t exactly happy with the way their proprietary products are sold on...

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Alexa Now Tracks Amazon Packages
Alexa Now Tracks Amazon Packages
May 13, 2016  |  Amazon Innovations

The Amazon Echo shows just how fast, new and innovative technologies can break through the derision of early detractors to become a near-focal point of...

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Why Amazon Should Have Chatbot Plans For Twitch’s Future
Why Amazon Should Have Chatbot Plans For Twitch’s Future
May 09, 2016  |  Amazon Innovations

There are few trends that catch Amazon off guard. This is the company that applied for drone clearance from the FAA before consumers had settled on...

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Amazon Embraces Full Prices For High Fashion
Amazon Embraces Full Prices For High Fashion
April 12, 2016  |  Amazon Innovations

By and large, shoppers have come to accept the foreign experience that is buying clothes online. While there’s no fitting room that lets them get...

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Did Tmall Just Leak The New Kindle?
Did Tmall Just Leak The New Kindle?
April 12, 2016  |  Amazon Innovations

No matter how cryptic Jeff Bezos may want to be, Amazon’s worldwide reach means that it’s not just Seattle that has to stay tight-lipped when a...

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How Amazon Reads Its Customers Like A Book
How Amazon Reads Its Customers Like A Book
March 17, 2016  |  Amazon Innovations

The biggest question around Amazon’s Seattle brick-and-mortar bookstore — as well as the upcoming second location in San Diego — remains a philosophical one: Why would an...

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Amazon Brings On-Demand Wine Advice To Japan
Amazon Brings On-Demand Wine Advice To Japan
February 10, 2016  |  Amazon Innovations

Picking the right wine to go with a certain meal can be hard enough in countries with access to hundreds of varieties and a long...

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