Amazon is reportedly working on a device like the Echo that has a screen, which could signal the eCommerce giant is aiming to benefit from the success of Echo with Alexa, its virtual assistant. According to a report by Bloomberg, citing two people familiar with the matter,...
It has recently come to light via a chain of email correspondences that Amazon has been testing its drone technology in U.K. airspace for much longer than initially believed. The correspondences were written between Amazon and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the organization responsible for...
Amazon is reportedly in discussions to acquire Souq.com FZ, the Dubai online retailer. According to a report by Bloomberg, talks are focused on Amazon paying around $1 billion to gain access to a high-growth market in the Middle East. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg is...
Amazon’s efforts to deliver its own packages this holiday season may face some hiccups now that pilots who were contracted to deliver for Amazon are picketing. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, due to a long-running labor dispute, pilots of the Air Transport...
Amazon’s Internet of Things endeavor continues to pick up speed. The online retail giant announced yesterday (Nov. 22) that a new set of device makers recently joined onto the Amazon Dash Replenishment Program (DRS) — GeniCan, Honeywell, Nestle and WePlenish. Amazon’s DRS allows participating connected devices...
Amazon isn’t known to sit idly by when it enters a market, and that could be true of the online ticketing business, which it got into last year. According to a report, Amazon is gearing up to expand it to Europe, Asia and maybe the...
This holiday season, the fight against the fakes is on. That’s according to Amazon, which is launching new tools aimed against counterfeiters on its platform. The tools are called “Brand Central,” and they are intended to help merchants thwart other merchants from selling an imitation...
Amazon has something to cheer about this holiday season: a lot of Prime subscribers. That’s according to Cowen Analyst John Blackledge, who estimated on Monday (Nov. 21) that Amazon’s Prime subscribers in the U.S. have climbed to 49.5 million, reaching an all-time high. The analyst,...
Ever the retail trendsetter, Amazon just celebrated the newest holiday shopping event around. The event, dubbed Voice Shopping Weekend, ran starting on Friday (Nov. 18) of last week. The event ends tonight. (OK, so it was an extra-long weekend.) All customers have to do is...
