Amazon isn’t giving up on Japan, despite trailing homegrown Japanese competitor Rakuten basically since it launched. The American eCommerce giant launched its books-only site in Japan in 2000 and has never quite gained an edge over Rakuten. DI Marketing, an online marketing research firm, conducted...
On the first day of Prime Week, Alexa gave to me 100 exclusive deals on Amazon’s Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, Tap, Fire TV and compatible Fire tablets — that is, if I was on the Nice list of Prime members using Alexa voice activation to...
Amazon’s disruptive nature, which has left retail stocks in the doldrums, is prompting fund managers to pinpoint areas that won’t be hurt by the eCommerce giant down the road. According to a news report in Reuters, some of the areas that fund managers don’t think Amazon...
Amazon.com announced Thursday (June 29) that its third-annual Prime Day, in which it rolls out hundreds of thousands of deals only for Prime members will be held July 11. In a press release, the eCommerce giant announced that members will have access to deals for...
It’s not Christmas in July without Black Friday. And it’s not Black Friday if the deals don’t span an entire week. It’s only fitting, then, that eCommerce giant Amazon is celebrating its third annual Amazon Prime Day by expanding the occasion into Amazon Prime Week....
Widely considered the most skilled voice-activated AI, Alexa is about to add a new talent to her impressive bank of skills. Coming soon, Alexa will be able to deliver voice or video messages to various rooms and devices throughout a customer’s home. Instead of having to...
Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, plans on continuing to invest in India in an effort to stay in lockstep with competitors who have been pouring billions of dollars into companies in the country. According to a news report in TechCrunch, following a meeting with...
A new report from Edison Research found that 42 percent of smart speaker owners have two or more devices — and that number is expected to grow. According to news from TechCrunch, the new numbers mean there’s around 1.5 to 1.6 smart speaker devices per household....
Amazon’s deal to acquire Whole Foods Market may seem like a dream come true to some, but there’s a realistic chance Walmart could still swoop in to trump Amazon’s $13.7 billion offer and snatch the grocery store chain away from the eCommerce retail giant, according to...
