Another week, another Amazon expansion/innovation. Well, there was actually more than one this week. It was truly a global affair. Amazon announced Monday that their Launchpad program is now live in India. The news comes just a week after the Launchpad store went live in...
Try this on for size: Amazon is getting into the men’s clothing sector one button at a time. Buttoned Down is Amazon’s new menswear brand, which is debuting with a collection of what the tech giant calls “top-quality dress shirts” that are made from non-iron,...
Media company Hearst has put together a team of 10 people that is tasked with staying on top of cutting-edge technology, including voice-activated devices from the likes of Amazon and Google, and creating products and services around them. According to a report by Adweek, Hearst launched...
Amazon announced last week the launch of its new Amazon AI platform, which brings machine-learning technologies to developers. According to a report by TechCrunch, Amazon launched the Amazon AI platform at its re:Invent developer event held in Las Vegas. In the beginning, the new service will...
ECommerce giant Amazon said it had its best holiday weekend in its corporate history, as measured by sales of devices. The firm said that millions of pieces of hardware were sold across the weekend, beginning with Thanksgiving and continuing into Cyber Monday. As reported by...
Amazon is reportedly working on a device like the Echo that has a screen, which could signal the eCommerce giant is aiming to benefit from the success of Echo with Alexa, its virtual assistant. According to a report by Bloomberg, citing two people familiar with the matter,...
It has recently come to light via a chain of email correspondences that Amazon has been testing its drone technology in U.K. airspace for much longer than initially believed. The correspondences were written between Amazon and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the organization responsible for...
Amazon is reportedly in discussions to acquire Souq.com FZ, the Dubai online retailer. According to a report by Bloomberg, talks are focused on Amazon paying around $1 billion to gain access to a high-growth market in the Middle East. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg is...
Amazon’s efforts to deliver its own packages this holiday season may face some hiccups now that pilots who were contracted to deliver for Amazon are picketing. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, due to a long-running labor dispute, pilots of the Air Transport...
