Amazon released a transparency report on its website on Wednesday (July 31), and it said that for the first six months of the year, the U.S. government requested more data than it had in the six months before, according to a report by TechCrunch. “Amazon...
Amazon is reportedly considering leasing a building in the famous Fifth Avenue area of New York. The building is currently owned by WeWork, and was formerly the flagship location of the shopping brand Lord & Taylor, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal....
In a quest to expand brand partnerships, Amazon is offering independent merchants prominent placement on its platform as well as marketing support and product reviews. The cost for entry into the Amazon Accelerator Program is steep, however, as merchants can possibly lose their brands and...
Data shows that shoppers spent more than 10 times as much money on Amazon during the first 24 hours of Prime Day than they did on Walmart and eBay combined. According to eCommerce research company Edison Trends, sales in the first 24 hours were up...
Amazon’s impact from Prime Day this year will again lift the U.S. eCommerce market, according to a report by TechCrunch. Adobe Digital Insights (ADI) predicts that top retailers who have more than $1 billion in online sales will have a revenue lift of 79 percent,...
Amazon Prime Day as prime opportunity for credit unions? Billions of dollars of spending activity will mark the annual promotional event, which kicked off Monday (July 15) and which now extends to two days — a full 48 hours and up from last year’s 36...
Subscriptions to Amazon Prime have been slowing down in the lead-up to Prime Day 2019, which is typically Amazon’s biggest shopping day of the year, according to a report by Fortune. At the end of last month, there was a total of 105 million Prime...
The National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. has teamed up with Amazon to provide medical advice for a variety of ailments, in an effort to cut down on hospital costs, according to a report by Reuters. Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice assistant Alexa will offer...
Amazon is expanding its anti-counterfeiting program, called Transparency, to Europe, India and Canada, according to a report by TechCrunch. The program works by adding a T-shaped QR-like code to items to serialize them and help to identify when the item is fake, both on Amazon’s...
