Amazon will host an event on Sept. 25 in Seattle to introduce new products and services. According to CNBC, the eCommerce giant is expected to debut new hardware for its Echo family, as well as launch new products. At last year’s event, Amazon announced 15 Alexa-enabled...
To find out if Amazon is utilizing its market power to hurt competition, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) team of investigators has started to interview small businesses that sell items on Amazon. Multiple attorneys, as well as one economist at a minimum, have been conducting...
News of Amazon Prime rolling out in Brazil caused some shares of eCommerce companies doing business in the country to drop, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Sept. 10). Amazon is offering unlimited nationwide free shipping to Prime subscribers in Brazil for a monthly price of 9.90...
Biometric payments are making another run at the grocery store, this time at the hands or Amazon. Or, to be more precise, in the hands of Amazon’s customers. Amazon, the company that brought consumers scan and go, is about to bring consumers pay by hand...
Discounted products caused a rift between Amazon and a trading group based in India, Reuters reported Friday (Aug. 30). The two sides were at a panel discussion organized by the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT). The competition watchdog represents 500,000 merchants and traders in...
Amazon is rolling out new subscriptions for eero, the security service that it acquired last year. Founded in San Francisco in 2014, eero’s systems blanket every room of a customer’s home using high-performing, reliable Wi-Fi. The system is designed to replace the traditional Wi-Fi router,...
Amazon is acquiring a 49 percent stake in Future Coupons, which is owned by India’s second largest retail chain, Future Retail. The news was revealed in a regulatory filing by Future Retail. An Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch the investment would “enhance Amazon’s existing portfolio of...
A senior Amazon executive believes India needs to do more to encourage eCommerce in the country. Amazon’s India head Amit Agarwal told Reuters that if the country were to reduce red tape, it would help small businesses sell online and export more goods to help...
Deutsche Post DHL has stopped making Amazon Fresh deliveries in Germany due to low demand. A spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters that DHL was ending its partnership with Amazon Fresh, but she assured that the rest of its business with the eCommerce giant would not be...
