Amazon has been looking to control more of the supply chain journey for years by making its own containers, chartering private cargo ships and more — moves which are now giving the eCommerce giant a leg up in the chaos of the 2021 supply chain...
Amazon is seeing “record-breaking” Black Friday sales, with Dave Clark, Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO, saying customers were engaged. Clark, speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said Sunday (Nov. 28), customers had spent on a myriad of items, including clothes, holiday decor and children’s toys. He...
Cameron Janes left his position as Amazon VP of physical retail Tuesday (Nov. 23), according to his LinkedIn profile. Before leaving Amazon, Janes oversaw its brick-and-mortar division, highlighted by the retail giant’s plans to open department store-style locations in California and Ohio in the near...
Amazon users were informed this week that beginning Jan. 19, they can no longer use U.K.-issued Visa credit cards to make purchases due to the high fees charged by the payment processor, according to multiple reports. The pushback by Amazon is the latest is a...
Amazon has launched a new Mac-native Prime Video app on the Mac App Store, allowing Prime users to directly purchase films and TV shows, Apple Insider reported Monday (Nov. 15). Although Amazon already has a Prime Video app for iOS and tvOS, this new version...
Do you own an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot speaker? It might know whether you’re in the room. As The Tech Portal reported Monday (Nov. 15), newer versions of the Echo and Echo Dot, starting this week, will be able to detect people within a...
A March crash in Marietta, Georgia between an Amazon delivery van and a Tesla paralyzed a would-be medical student and turned the spotlight on how fault should be assigned when big companies farm out work to smaller third parties. Amazon Logistics subcontracts to outside delivery...
With holiday shopping underway earlier than ever for many people this year, retailers and brands have been rolling out deals nonstop for weeks, trying to entice consumers to shop with them. Amazon is no exception to this, but the eCommerce giant also has another proposition:...
Amazon is deploying Alexa to assisted living centers and hospitals to help providers connect patients to information and entertainment while also improving the care team’s overall efficiency. With Alexa bedside, senior citizen residents and patients can more easily stay connected with family, friends, caregivers, news...
