Whole Foods Market’s shareholders voted on the sale to Amazon, approving the deal and putting it closer to completion. According to a news report on CNBC, both sides now expect the deal to be finalized during the second half of this year. Shareholders were expected to...
Amazon, which has been making a push into the education market, is expanding its efforts on that front. On Wednesday, (Aug. 23) it launched a new curriculum from TenMarks, the education company it acquired a few years back. According to a report in TechCrunch TenMarks...
By the end of the year, Amazon Prime will be in more than 50 percent of American homes, predicts Cowen and Co. The most recent Prime Day brought more new Prime subscribers into the eFamily than any other 24-hour period, and analysts believe that will...
eCommerce giant Amazon is looking to make its voice-activated assistant Alexa available on more gadgets and devices. With voice-activated digital assistants becoming more popular, Amazon wants to differentiate by expanding Alexa’s skills and reach. As such, the company is opening the program up to outside developers....
Private label sales have been exploding at Amazon of late, pushed by increasing sales of Amazon’s in-house devices. Amazon has been focused on pushing those private label products — products consumers may not even know come care of Amazon, since that fact is not indicated...
Amazon, the eCommerce giant, announced Tuesday (Aug. 15) the launch of Instant Pickup, a free service for Prime and Prime Student members in which they can purchase a curated selection of daily essentials available for pickup in two minutes or less. According to a press release,...
Amazon.com announced Tuesday (Aug. 15) the launch of a private debt offering. In a press release, the company said it is offering to sell senior unsecured notes in a private offering, with net proceeds going to fund some or all of its multibillion-dollar acquisition of Whole...
Amazon is exploring a cutting-edge food technology for home delivery, as the online retailers continues to find new ways to get into the $700 billion U.S. grocery business. According to Reuters, Amazon is looking into selling ready-to-eat dishes as soon as next year. The dishes...
Amazon’s Alexa is overqualified for ordering a pizza or a Lyft, so a few pioneering cities are putting her to work on more complex and publicly beneficial tasks. Los Angeles was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the first U.S. city to build its own Alexa skill. But a...
