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You Can Now Buy Food With One Click While Watching Amazon Prime
August 15, 2016

OK, so no show or movie on Amazon Prime is going to be able to let you do this, but Amazon is releasing a series of shows about Japanese food that will allow viewers to buy featured food products with a single click while they...

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Alibaba Doesn’t View Amazon As The Competition
August 08, 2016

According to Alibaba CTO Jeff Zhang, the company does not view Amazon as a competitor, or at least declines to describe them as such when asked directly, instead noting that Alibaba is more of a middle man between sellers and buyers, whereas Amazon is …...

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Salesforce Exec Leaving For Amazon
August 05, 2016

Amazon has picked up another high-level executive at the expense of Salesforce. Adam Bosworth, a tech executive with almost 30 years of experience working with big software companies, is leaving his role as executive vice president at Salesforce to take a senior position at Amazon...

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Amazon Patents Smart Headphones And Gets Serious In The UK
August 05, 2016

Amazon is leading the charge in the IoT world by launching the Dash Wand in the U.K. and obtaining a patent for smart headphones in the U.S. Will the Dash Wand be a precursor to the Dash Button and Alexa and Echo in the U.K...

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Amazon Dash Ecosystem Expands
August 05, 2016

Amazon turned plenty of heads when it first released its line of Dash Buttons to usher in a new age of programmatic commerce. Now, Amazon is giving its Dash Replenishment Service all the support and product offerings it could ever need to build and grow....

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Amazon Just Pushed ExxonMobil Out As Fourth-Largest Company
August 02, 2016

Need more evidence that Amazon is taking over the retailer world? Consider this: As of Monday (Aug. 1), Amazon has become the fourth-largest company based on market capitalization, pushing aside ExxonMobil, the mega oil company. Currently, Amazon’s market capitalization stands at $366 billion, which is...

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Amazon’s Earnings Data
July 29, 2016

The reaction to Amazon’s phenomenal Q2 2016 earnings was confounding. The stock price for the online retail and cloud services colossus barely moved in response to numbers that easily surpassed analysts’ expectations and showed net profitability for the fifth straight quarter. A confident Jeff Bozos...

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Amazon Earnings Spill On India, Alexa, Dash And More
July 29, 2016

Earnings season often brings with it an interesting variety of outcomes. Mostly these are the type of outcomes that are fairly easy to predict. Firms usually see their stock prices react to the earnings figures they just released, and generally that reaction tells you how...

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Amazon Blows Past Wall Street Views For Q2
July 28, 2016

Amazon‘s shares were surging in after-hours action on Thursday (July 28) after the company reported second quarter results that were higher than Wall Street expectations. It was the fifth straight quarter in which Amazon posted a profit. For the second quarter, Amazon reported earnings per...