Private label sales have been exploding at Amazon of late, pushed by increasing sales of Amazon’s in-house devices. Amazon has been focused on pushing those private label products — products consumers may not even know come care of Amazon, since that fact is not indicated...
Amazon, the eCommerce giant, announced Tuesday (Aug. 15) the launch of Instant Pickup, a free service for Prime and Prime Student members in which they can purchase a curated selection of daily essentials available for pickup in two minutes or less. According to a press release,...
Amazon.com announced Tuesday (Aug. 15) the launch of a private debt offering. In a press release, the company said it is offering to sell senior unsecured notes in a private offering, with net proceeds going to fund some or all of its multibillion-dollar acquisition of Whole...
Amazon is exploring a cutting-edge food technology for home delivery, as the online retailers continues to find new ways to get into the $700 billion U.S. grocery business. According to Reuters, Amazon is looking into selling ready-to-eat dishes as soon as next year. The dishes...
Amazon’s Alexa is overqualified for ordering a pizza or a Lyft, so a few pioneering cities are putting her to work on more complex and publicly beneficial tasks. Los Angeles was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the first U.S. city to build its own Alexa skill. But a...
Amazon’s shoe business has already experienced 18 percent growth year-over-year during the first two quarters of 2017— an indication that the online retailer’s investment in the footwear market is paying off. Chain Store Age reported that Amazon had a total 35 percent year-over-year growth in...
Amazon has announced news its voice-activated assistant Alexa can now provide music for specific activities such as running, napping or meditating, among others. Amazon editors create the playlists, drawing from the Amazon Prime Music streaming service and the Spotify-esque Amazon Music Unlimited, Tech Crunch reported. While Amazon...
The conspiracy theorists may be right this time: Cybercriminals could use the Amazon Echo to spy on them. A British security researcher demonstrated how he — or anyone — could install malware on an older Echo device (sold before 2017) to stream audio from the hacked device...
Customers in the U.S. with Amazon’s Echo speaker and Fire TV are in luck: A new update now allows users to connect their Echo devices to their Fire TV, Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Edition smart TVs. According to Mashable, this means you can...
