Online retail giant Amazon will start labeling certain products “Top Brands” in a pilot that will attempt to give big names the type of favorable positioning they get at physical retailers, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Aug. 16). Speedo, New Balance, Under Armour and Fruit of...
Amazon has announced that it is set to open an Amazon Books location in Nashville, as well as an Amazon 4-star store in Boston. Geek Wire reported that the announcement came on the same day the eCommerce giant launched its fourth 4-star store in Seattle....
Amazon is launching a new program that will allow third-party sellers to donate excess or unwanted inventory to charity. The new program — Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Donations — enables sellers to store their inventory in the eCommerce giant’s warehouses in the U.S. and U.K.,...
Lawmakers want to know how Amazon determines which products receive its “Amazon’s Choice” badge. In a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal expressed concern that the eCommerce giant could be leading consumers into buying “inferior”...
The privacy watchdog in Luxembourg, where Amazon has its European headquarters, has reached out to Amazon to get more info about its voice assistant, Alexa, and what the company does with its voice recordings. Reuters is reporting that the move signifies an uptick in regulatory...
Amazon may be in search of a way to put advertising data on the blockchain, according to reports. The company recently put up a job posting looking for a software development engineer in advertising blockchain. Amazon said the potential candidate will help the company build...
Students with an Amazon Prime subscription can now get Amazon Music for just 99 cents a month, down from the student price of $4.99, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Aug. 5). With Amazon Music Unlimited, subscribers can listen to more than 50 million songs. Amazon’s Prime...
Merchants who sell their products on both Amazon and Walmart are complaining about the pressure they’re getting from Amazon to raise their prices on Walmart. As Bloomberg has reported, Amazon scans rivals’ prices to see if they’re lower, and if it finds a cheaper product...
Investigators from the Federal Reserve carried out an inspection of Amazon’s cloud in April as Washington looks into ways to regulate companies that provide the service. Although the investigation came around at the same time a Seattle woman hacked a database of credit-card issuer Capital...
