News about Amazon’s ambitions to launch its own logistics network has slowly leaked out over much of the past year. Via whispers of drones, planes and ships — and even remarks during Amazon’s earnings calls with analysts — the eCommerce giant has made it clear that it...
As if Spotify didn’t already have enough on its hands to worry about with Apple Music – it seems the Swedish startup has even more competition coming its way. According to reports in the The New York Post, Amazon executives are in the early phases of...
It isn’t easy being Amazon. Investors criticize you for a lack of profits yet remain bullish. You then deliver an all-time high profit over the last 20 years you’ve been in business, and The Street throws you under the bus. To the tune of a...
Would you believe that Amazon has never run an ad during the Super Bowl? Well, it hasn’t — but that’s going to change this year. As The Verge reported yesterday (Jan. 27), the eCommerce giant released a teaser for its first-ever Super Bowl ad, set...
As PYMNTS reported yesterday (Jan. 25), Amazon recently showed a little leg on just how many consumers use Pay with Amazon across its 170 countries. Amazon released some new data showing just how valuable Prime is to its overall merchant base with some new stats....
An alleged security breach at Amazon has nothing to do with faulty technology — just basic human error. Engadget shares the unfortunate experience of one Eric Springer (he had originally posted his firsthand account — sans complete last name — to Medium), who claims to have recently been...
EReaders don’t yet have a single dominant device like iPods were to MP3 players, but Amazon’s Kindle line might be the closest thing. Now, Amazon is trying to give its eReader of choice a leg-up in an unfamiliar market: brick-and-mortar stores. Never one to test...
Blue Origin — the Jeff Bezos-backed space transport firm — has announced the successful launch and landing of a suborbital rocket that hit a max height of 63 miles over the Earth. The rocket landed largely unharmed in Texas on Friday (Jan. 22). The rocket made the...
When hoverboards broke onto the scene in the middle of 2015, retailers just about got whiplash rushing to get into the craze that had people dropping upwards of $1,500 on the flavor-of-the-week gadgets. However, now that it’s clear just how many hoverboards were made with...
