Paying a mortgage is the stereotypically frustrating and demoralizing part of homeownership. All that money down the drain each month can seem like a waste, especially if you don’t love the house, but at least Amazon and Capital One are making mortgage payments a little...
At first glance, it’s not a terrible decision to style your new eCommerce venture as the first true “Amazon killer.” At the very least, the epithet gave Jet.com a few weeks’ worth of positive coverage when it launched back in July 2015 with plenty of fanfare...
Amazon.com announced Thursday (July 21) that it is getting into the student loan market. The eCommerce giant is teaming up with Wells Fargo to give student loan borrowers a break on their loans. Under the terms of the new deal, Amazon Prime Student account members...
Amazon knows better than any retailer that sometimes a groundbreaking idea just needs to get its feet under itself before really taking off. It looks like that was the steady hand behind Prime Day’s start back in 2015 – and its phenomenal sophomore showing in...
Today is Prime Day. That’s a fact that is probably impossible to miss given the advertising blitz and the massive run of retailers celebrating the mid-summer shopping holiday that Amazon invented. In celebration of the one-day shopping season we’re taking a look at Amazon Prime...
In 2015, Amazon had the entire retail landscape to itself when it held its Prime Day retail holiday in the middle of July. This time around, Amazon’s biggest competitors aren’t just aware of their intentions; they’re doing what they can to run interference, too. As...
Getting a holiday on the calendar and in the public consciousness is not easy to do, especially in the modern world. Usually holidays exist to commemorate big things – love, thankfulness, labor, independence, peace on earth and good will towards men – and over mankind’s 10,000...
To date, the most successful implementations of artificial intelligence in the consumer-facing space have been from the biggest players on the market. Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Echo have become near-household products, but that doesn’t mean there’s no more room for smaller players to shake up...
Last year, no one really knew what to expect out of Prime Day. Amazon had always been one for good deals and great shipping services, but how the eCommerce giant would handle its own pseudo-holiday was a trickier thing to nail down. This year, Amazon...
