Online retail giant Amazon has announced that it is going to open grocery stores all across the United States, starting with neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The company has signed over a dozen leases...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) recently wrote a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) asking it to add Amazon’s France and India sites to a list of “Notorious Markets” known for counterfeiting goods, according to CNBC. AAFA, a clothing trade group representing...
Both Amazon and Flipkart announced record sales on the opening day of their annual festive season sales in India. The sales launched on Saturday (Sept. 28) and will end on Oct. 4, before the Hindu festivals Dussehra and Diwali. Reuters reported that Amazon saw record...
Amazon wants to bring its cashierless Go technology to other places, like airport stores and movie theaters, in a bid to expand its reach and potentially win more cloud customers, according to CNBC. There are already 16 Go stores in the country, where customers can scan...
Amazon rolled out a virtual health clinic with in-home follow-ups for employees in Seattle, Geekwire reported on Tuesday (Sept. 24). Amazon Care offers online primary care and non-emergency checkups as well as prescription deliveries and in-home or in-office doctors’ visits. The new service is part...
To ensure that voice-enabled products offer customers flexibility and choice through multiple, interoperable voice services, Amazon and top technology firms announced the Voice Interoperability Initiative. Over 30 companies are supporting the effort, with the inclusion of global brands such as Amazon, Salesforce, Sonos, Spotify, Bose and...
Amazon researchers have published a paper revealing what they have found to be a better way to select an architecture when crafting an artificial intelligence (AI) model. In “On the Bounds of Function Approximations,” the researchers explained that they were trying to establish a framework...
Amazon is planning to introduce two new products: an even bigger Echo speaker with a subwoofer and wireless earbuds with fitness tracking capabilities, according to a report by CNBC. The earbuds are codenamed “Puget.” They’ll be able to track steps with an accelerometer as well...
The name of the game in commerce — domestic, cross-border, whatever — is given consumers as many options to pay as pragmatically possible. In a new PYMNTS discussion with Karen Webster, Ben Volk, head of global payment acceptance at Amazon, talks about why that means...
