As Amazon and surcharges go in Singapore, might there be signals or tea leaves for other countries? In a statement emailed to PYMNTS on Tuesday (Aug. 10), an Amazon spokesperson noted that the eCommerce giant is putting a surcharge in place in Singapore for transactions...
Amazon added six more communities to its Same-Day Delivery initiative, which gives buyers in eligible cities access to as many as 3 million items in a dozen categories, including baby, beauty and health, kitchen and dining, electronics, pet supplies and more. Prime members in Baltimore,...
Amazon will reportedly pay shoppers $10 worth of credits if they start using its palm print scanning technology, Amazon One. The new promotion was first spotted by TechCrunch, though there’s been no official announcement from Amazon yet. Amazon One was launched in September 2020, with...
A European privacy watchdog has fined Amazon 746 million euros ($887 million) for violating data protection laws. According to CNBC, Amazon disclosed the fine Friday (July 30) in a security filing. It was issued two weeks ago by the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection...
A recent job posting by Amazon seeking a digital currency and blockchain expert for its payments team means the company could be moving closer to allowing users to pay for their purchases with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The Amazon job posting seeks an “experienced product...
Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos will step down as head of the tech giant as of July 5. But before he does, the company has added two new principles to its leadership principles that concern workplace and global responsibilities, according to a company blog...
Amazon Pay Later in India has 2 million customers since the service launched last year, with over 10 million transactions that have a near 100 percent payment success rate. The credit service was launched in April 2020 specifically for Amazon India customers and lets shoppers pay in monthly installments...
Amazon’s ongoing effort to automate consumer shopping has taken its latest step forward with the release of its newest gadget, the Dash Shelf. In testing for most of 2020, the newest Dash gadget is now available to the general public to make their re-ordering lives simpler. The...
Amazon is back online after a short website outage late Wednesday (June 23) that affected over 6,200 shoppers, 1,700 Prime Video customers and more than 400 Alexa users, Reuters reported, citing the outage monitoring website Downdetector. Within an hour of going down, Amazon had largely...
