Amazon App news and trends

Amazon Sets Second Annual Digital Day Date
Amazon // December 19, 2017

Amazon has announced that its second annual Digital Day will take place on Friday, Dec. 29, with the eCommerce giant offering even bigger deals on digital content than last year. Customers will be able to access more than 5,000 deals in more than eight categories,...

Half Of Amazon App Users Now Use New 1-Click Checkout
Amazon Payments // December 14, 2017

Around half of Amazon app customers are seeing a different one-click checkout, as part of a large-scale test the eCommerce giant is conducting. According to TechCrunch, the new checkout option replaces the click (or on mobile, the tap) with a swipe. Currently, around half of...

Amazon’s Alexa Now In Its Android App
Amazon Innovations // July 21, 2017

Amazon announced news in the spring that Alexa would be coming to the company’s shopping app and, after integrating it into iOS on Thursday (July 20), it announced integration with Android devices. According to a report in TechCrunch, Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant, had already...

Amazon’s Echo Look Gets A Companion App
Amazon Technology // May 23, 2017

Amazon pushed further into the selfie camera market, rolling out a companion app for iOS and Android devices that works with its new camera, the Echo Look. According to a report, with the new app, Echo Look owners can see live previews from the camera, take...

Interviews & Exclusives
Data Dive, Fierce Competitors Edition: Amazon, Chase And Google.

March 20, 2017
March this week improved on its “in like a lion” bonafides with a mid-month blizzard that socked most of the Northeast and gave us all our collective doubts that any lamb-like exits were in our national future. Innovation Project, incidentally, battled back against the blizzard and kept Cambridge warm despite the ice — which we’ll have […]

Quick Reads
Amazon Makes Home Improvement Easier With ‘Part Finder’

July 20, 2018
Amazon is launching a new feature that allows users to search for home improvement parts with ease. The eCommerce giant’s “Part Finder” enables users to simply point their smartphone camera at an item they need, and Amazon will scan it, measure it, and find matching items from its product catalog. The company didn’t officially announce […]

Amazon Sets Second Annual Digital Day Date

December 19, 2017
Amazon has announced that its second annual Digital Day will take place on Friday, Dec. 29, with the eCommerce giant offering even bigger deals on digital content than last year....

Half Of Amazon App Users Now Use New 1-Click Checkout

December 14, 2017
Around half of Amazon app customers are seeing a different one-click checkout, as part of a large-scale test the eCommerce giant is conducting. According to TechCrunch, the new checkout option...

Amazon’s Alexa Now In Its Android App

July 21, 2017
Amazon announced news in the spring that Alexa would be coming to the company’s shopping app and, after integrating it into iOS on Thursday (July 20), it announced integration with...