With NASA interested again in returning to the moon, several startups have been looking to benefit from that, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his space company, Blue Origin. According to a report in The Washington Post, Blue Origin has handed out a seven-page white paper to...
Amazon is extending its push to have third-party developers work on Alexa skills in the classroom. The online retail giant recently told Reuters about the launch of a new program to encourage university students to research, develop and build skills for its voice-activated AI assistant as...
Sometimes a small issue can have big, big ripples — a fact that the web-using population of the Eastern United States learned yesterday when a technical failure at Amazon Web Services managed to ding hundreds of thousands of websites. The failure started around 15 minutes...
Time sure does fly. Last June, consumers’ minds were blown when Alexa reached 1,000 unique skills. If they could see us now… because just the other day, Amazon’s voice-activated AI assistant hit a new skill milestone: 10,000. That’s right: Alexa’s got 10,000 skills. The 10,000th...
After managing to break out of the post-earnings hole mid-last week, AMZN kept on climbing to hit record high values above $850 during trading on Tuesday and Wednesday. By late afternoon, the price had dipped down somewhat, though still rode high overall. At the time...
Every now and then retailers give what Southerners call a lagniappe (an extra bonus or gift) to its customers. Today, Amazon is doing just that by offering a $8.62 discount to all sales of $50 or more. The reason behind this generous offering is Amazon’s corporate...
Shortly after a similar move retailer Walmart made a few weeks ago, eCommerce giant Amazon announced it is also lowering the threshold for free shipping to $35. In January, Walmart decided to shut down the pilot of its ShippingPass program, a fee-based, two-day shipping offering...
Amazon stock (AMZN) spent the past two weeks recovering from an over $30 slip in value following the retail giant’s Q4 earnings announcement on Feb. 2. While Amazon’s EPS in Q4 outpaced analysts’ projections, coming in at $1.54 a share, over the expected $1.35, the...
Corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission can reveal a wealth of data, some of it quantitative, some of it qualitative. In some cases, information can be a mixture of both and must be guesstimated rather than solely calculated. So it is with Amazon,...
