This week in the Amazon Tracker, Amazon continues to push out globally, expanding its scale and a long list of offerings. As it does, battle lines are being drawn as the online retail (and a lot else) giant starts to bump up against its competition. Starting...
Online retail giant Amazon wants a bigger piece of the $800 billion trucking industry pie, and it plans to get it by repurposing some classic gig economy tactics, à la Uber. Scheduled to launch in summer 2017, Amazon is reportedly working on building a new...
Amazon has reportedly been awarded a design patent that makes it easier for consumers to choose between buying someone a gift or giving them a gift card. According to a report, the patent Amazon was awarded talks about a removable gift card sticker that could be added...
When we all got a peek at Amazon Go last week, the buzz was all about innovating the checkout experience. That, Karen Webster writes this week, is like saying that the iPhone was all about innovating the telephone call. Amazon Go, Webster posits, is Amazon’s...
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...
