“Omnichannel is dead,” says Amazon VP of Payments Patrick Gauthier. Instead, the future of commerce, he believes, is all about connected devices and the personalization that can be enabled via those devices and less about the dichotomy of offline and online. “Moving forward, it’s all...
While it’s not clear just what form it will take, Amazon seems to be approaching some sort of watershed moment in the next few years. Not only are its logistics costs ballooning, but its Web services and media divisions are growing past what any pundit...
About three weeks ago, at Innovation Project 2016, Amazon’s VP of External Payments, Patrick Gauthier, dropped a big hint about the direction that Amazon might be taking payments outside of Amazon itself. It was then during an interview with PYMNTS that he referenced the concept...
Amazon announced a new program today (April 4) designed to expand Amazon Payments into more eCommerce merchants’ websites. What this means is that Amazon is making a big push to enable eCommerce platform providers and developers to add the option for their customers to “Pay with...
Early this morning, Amazon released a blog post announcing its 101st Dash Button — one that will deliver consumers’ mail to them with a mere tap of the button. The new Amazon Dash Mail Button will deliver Prime subscribers their mail, wherever they may be, via...
Amazon’s fulfillment centers – The Happiest Places On Earth™ – have come under scrutiny lately for what some labor rights advocates perceive to be overly draconian anti-theft measures. In response to that criticism, Amazon is starting a new program aimed exclusively at keeping its warehouse workers...
It was a year ago that Amazon first released its Amazon Dash Buttons — a move that was received by some as an April Fools’ joke. But sure enough, it wasn’t. And one year later, Amazon has made its case as to why the Dash...
Amazon, Amazon, Amazon — no matter the mixed press that has come its way, the eCommerce giant still reigns supreme in the eyes of consumers. For the third year in a row, Amazon nabbed the number one spot on the Reputation Institute’s annual report of America’s most reputable...
Just two and a half decades ago, it was impossible to get food or medicine transported from one side of the city of Berlin to the other — no matter how long people tried. Now, the residents of Germany’s capital — both East and West — will...
