Reports out of Seattle say that Amazon has significantly cut the number of open positions in the city, and some employees are even talking about a hiring freeze. Both the Seattle Times and CNBC reported on the story, speaking to employees about hiring freezes or...
The ability and tendency of the average American consumer to hit the web to purchase goods or at least research them and their price has created something for a difficulty for the Federal Reserve as it contemplates whether and how much to increase the benchmark...
December 5, 2017 was day one, Down Under, for Amazon. It was, according to Amazon executives, an opening day that broke all previous opening day records. It is, perhaps, not surprising. Although Australian consumers don’t spend as much money online as their American and U.K....
Amazon is making its Echo voice-enabled smart speakers available for purchase in more than 80 countries, but will only ship to the countries via Amazon.com. According to a news report in Venture Beat, Amazon is only selling the Echo devices from Amazon.com, with no local...
Amazon has long avoided troubles with copyright and trademark infringement issues in the U.S. by calling itself a venue through which merchants can sell — not an actual merchant for many of the goods for sale under its umbrella. Amazon can try to police its sellers,...
A new study has revealed that Alexa users are buying more, which means that its voice technology is turning into a major marketing platform for consumer brands. CNBC reported that the study, conducted by Linc Global and Rakuten, found that Amazon Echo owners increased their...
Amazon is an officially up and running in Australia. The eCommerce giant took its first orders Tuesday, but it seems local retail wasn’t too badly hurt by the development, according to Monday (Dec. 4) reports from CNBC. In fact, retail stocks actually shot up as...
Coming soon to Amazon Alexa’s rapidly expanding skill set? Going to work. As its annual re:Invent cloud services conference is going off in Vegas this week, Amazon announced that it will be rolling out a new toolbox that will make it easier to program Amazon’s...
Amazon Pay is coming soon to apps developed for Amazon’s Alexa by third-party developers. That news comes care of Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. Starting out, Alexa’s payment-embedded skills will fall into the following categories: donations, restaurants and event ticketing. A developer preview...
