Amazon’s payments side might soon get a little bigger — at least for its India business. A report from The Times of India, citing sources said to be close to the matter, indicates that Amazon’s India unit has filed an application for a semi-closed digital...
“Alexa, ask Capital One: When is my credit card payment due?” That’s just one of the questions that Capital One customers can soon use to ask the Amazon Echo device and its virtual assistant, Alexa, to conduct voice-activated banking services. Alexa can also share balances and...
Sometimes, consumers just don’t know what they got ’til it’s gone. And while Amazon draws its fair share of complaints from the wider market, those customers’ reactions when Amazon goes down is a whole lot more telling than the inverse. Go down Amazon did, though....
Encryption has become one of the hottest debated subjects in the tech industry lately, and even Amazon has had its name thrown into the mix of stories. Just last week, Amazon found itself at the forefront of an encryption discussion following the news that it had dropped...
Amazon has one clear bread-and-butter service that, even during tough quarters, has given it a boost. That service, of course, is Amazon Prime. And by the looks of Amazon’s sales, which have doubled in the past three years and continue to soar each year, Prime...
Encryption is most certainly having a moment, though not in the way its proponents might expect. While Apple is fighting a legal battle in support of it, another major retailer just sandbagged encryption in a major way. Motherboard reported that it all began when owners...
The way Amazon’s Echo is designed, one might think it can handle just about everything with nothing more than voice commands. On every front the regular Echo can’t hold its own, though, Amazon has its customers covered. The eCommerce giant released two new models in...
Pay with Amazon just secured a deal with Southwest that will offer its customers a new way to pay. The newly announced deal between the airline carrier and Amazon enables customers to pay and purchase products through the carrier’s onboard entertainment options using their Amazon...
Is Amazon’s cloud computing services unit eyeing the big banks? According to unnamed sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, Amazon has been pitching its Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit toward major banks, including Citi, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. What Amazon has reportedly been pitching...
