Today is Prime Day. That’s a fact that is probably impossible to miss given the advertising blitz and the massive run of retailers celebrating the mid-summer shopping holiday that Amazon invented. In celebration of the one-day shopping season we’re taking a look at Amazon Prime...
In 2015, Amazon had the entire retail landscape to itself when it held its Prime Day retail holiday in the middle of July. This time around, Amazon’s biggest competitors aren’t just aware of their intentions; they’re doing what they can to run interference, too. As...
Getting a holiday on the calendar and in the public consciousness is not easy to do, especially in the modern world. Usually holidays exist to commemorate big things – love, thankfulness, labor, independence, peace on earth and good will towards men – and over mankind’s 10,000...
To date, the most successful implementations of artificial intelligence in the consumer-facing space have been from the biggest players on the market. Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Echo have become near-household products, but that doesn’t mean there’s no more room for smaller players to shake up...
Last year, no one really knew what to expect out of Prime Day. Amazon had always been one for good deals and great shipping services, but how the eCommerce giant would handle its own pseudo-holiday was a trickier thing to nail down. This year, Amazon...
In June 2015, Amazon took a big step forward in getting Alexa’s skills into other applications. It opened Alexa’s API to developers, making it free to build Alexa skills and integrate Alexa into their own products. Now, one year later, Alexa is celebrating with some big...
Amazon Payments will soon be an official payment option of the U.S. federal government. The Bureau of the Fiscal Service announced today (June 29) that Amazon Payments will soon be a digital payment option for consumers needing to make an online payment to the federal...
Amazon launched the Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Voice Service and the Alexa Fund in June of last year, and as something of an anniversary celebration on Tuesday (June 28) the company unveiled new Alexa features and announced that they have added Lyft and Honeywell to the 1,400...
Apple and Amazon are so ubiquitous in just about every country in the Western world that it’s difficult to imagine an entire country resistant to the idea of one or both of these retailers setting up shop within their borders. After all, what shopper doesn’t like same-day...
