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Amazon Marketplace Fraud Reports Deepen
April 18, 2017

Amazon’s marketplace troubles may be even broader than reported, according to some sellers. On top of the recent issues with hackers stealing account credentials of legitimate but inactive merchants and selling non-existent items, a report from Inc suggests that fraudsters are also making new accounts....

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Bezos’ Annual Investor Letter Praises “Nimbleness” And Diverse Opinions
April 13, 2017

As it turns out, even if Jeff Bezos doesn’t like a show or movie coming out of Amazon Studios — even if he thinks it sounds boring and too complicated to make — he will greenlight it if his team makes the case for it....

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Amazon Tracker: Cash In Bloom
April 12, 2017

While the company’s shares (AMZN) saw significant growth in the winter months of 2017, the first weeks of April trading brought AMZN to new heights. AMZN broke $900 during Tuesday (April 4) afternoon trading, peaking above $920 before tempering back down to around $894 by...

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Amazon Contemplated Buying Whole Foods
April 12, 2017

According to emerging reports, Amazon considered a Whole Foods Market takeover last fall — but ultimately decided not to pursue a deal. The potential move came as Amazon continues to look for ways to bolster its grocery business, though according to an unnamed source, the discussion...

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Visa Unveils Detailed Payment Data For Amazon’s Business Customers
April 11, 2017

Anyone who’s worked in corporate America for longer than a second can understand the agonizing annoyance at entering in every item purchased on a company credit card. Amazon is looking to make this process a bit easier for those who use Visa. Through its Amazon Business...

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Amazon Set To Account For 50 Percent Of All US Online Sales
April 11, 2017

Amazon.com is the leading eCommerce retailer in the U.S. with 34 percent market share, but that is expected to grow even more, hitting 50 percent by 2021. That’s according to Needham, the Wall Street firm that said in a research report Monday (April 10) that...

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Amazon Pulls Quidsi Apps After Announcing Plan To Shut Down All Quidsi Sites
April 10, 2017

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. According to Tech Crunch,...

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Sellers Lose Thousands As Amazon Marketplace Is Hit By Hackers
April 10, 2017

Hackers are targeting merchants who sell goods on Amazon’s marketplace. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal, the last several weeks have seen cybercriminals change bank deposit information on Amazon accounts of active sellers in order to steal tens of thousands of dollars from each,...

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Amazon To Add 5K Jobs In Virtual Customer Service
April 07, 2017

Amazon’s latest employee-boosting ambitions will certainly add to the growing stats of workers working remotely. The online retail giant just announced a plan to create over 5,000 new part-time roles over the next year as part of its Virtual Customer Service program. In a nutshell,...