Amazon Prime Now restaurant delivery has entered another city close to home. Just last month, Amazon Prime Now launched the service in Seattle — and now it has landed in Portland. This means that customers in Portland can order free delivery from local restaurants and...
Amazon might still be a baby in the grand scheme of Indian eCommerce markets, but it’s giving well-established local companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal a run for their money with its special offers for Diwali, the widely celebrated Indian festival of lights. The Seattle, Washington-based company, which...
Come November, it will literally be raining gold in prizes for some Indian consumers. The prizes are for consumers shopping through Amazon for Diwali, a widely celebrated Indian festival that attracts huge commerce opportunities for retailers. To brace for it, Amazon has lined up 1 million products...
The ongoing battle between Amazon and Etsy rages on. Yesterday (Oct. 7), PYMNTS reported how handmade eCommerce merchant Etsy is making some moves on small manufacturing to fend off Amazon and its announced intention to enter the wonderful world of artisanal arts and crafts with its...
Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-based business intelligence platform. In a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release, Amazon said that the service enables “employees, regardless of their technical skill, to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis” and glean fast insights into...
Apple TV and Chromecast enthusiasts need not apply. That was the message out of Amazon this week – when the eCommerce (and delivery, and video streaming, and Web services, and grocery, and on-demand, and IoT) company announced that going forward it will no longer be...
The days of human intervention in the restocking of the fridge may be coming to an end. Yesterday (Oct. 1), Amazon announced 11 new device makers working in collaboration with its Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) program — meaning the eCommerce provider will work in tandem...
If a device does not “interact well” with Prime Video, it is no longer welcome in Amazon’s marketplace. At least that’s what the online retailer said in an email alerting its sellers that Apple TV and Google Chromecast device inventories would be removed on Oct....
Amazon announced today (Oct. 1) that it has a new set of brands joining the Amazon Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) program. The new brands to join the program include General Electric, Samsung, August, Gmate, Oster, Obe, Petnet, CleverPet, Sutro, Thync and Sealed Air. These companies join in...
