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Amazon Fresh To Sell Martha Stewart Meal Kits
March 16, 2017

Amazon has spent the last year or so pushing heavily to dominate the food and grocery retail space. The most recent development comes as the online retail giant partners with meal kit delivery service Marley Spoon to start delivering Martha Stewart’s meal kits via Amazon...

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Amazon Tracker: Busy Week
March 14, 2017

Amazon stock (AMZN) looks to be back on an upward track after a bit of a down note in the first week of March. Since Tuesday of last week, AMZN has risen over $8, or about 1 percent, tracking toward the all-time high shares hit...

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Amazon Hands Over Echo Data For Hot Tub Murder
March 08, 2017

Looks like we may have spoken too soon. While Amazon had previously filed a motion near the end of February to stop a search warrant to access Echo recordings for the hot tub murder trial in Arkansas, the online retail giant looks to have changed...

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Amazon Tracker: Revenue Games
March 07, 2017

Since last we turned our lens toward Amazon, the online retail and cloud computing behemoth’s stock has slipped down some from the all-time high seen in the third week of February. While values remained relatively flat through the first few days of March, this week AMZN...

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Blue Origin Circulates Plan To Send Cargo In Spacecrafts To The Moon
March 06, 2017

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...

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Amazon’s Alexa University Sandbox
March 06, 2017

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...

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Amazon Web Services Hiccups — And Thousands Of Websites Fail
March 01, 2017

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...

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Amazon Alexa Hits 10,000 Skills
February 24, 2017

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...

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Amazon Tracker: Come Out Swinging
February 23, 2017

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...