According to a recent court ruling, Amazon did not infringe on patents from an Israeli company, Ikani Holdings’ Freshub, over smart kitchen voice controls, Bloomberg writes, citing a decision by a Waco, Texas judge. Freshub’s product was allowing customers to make shopping lists, set up...
Amazon Payment Services, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region-based payment processing service, has launched a new FinTech lab, according to a report from Arab News. Called the Amazon Fintech Lab in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Innovation Hub, it will be used...
Amazon has put in an order for 1,000 autonomous driving systems from Plus, a self-driving tech startup, Bloomberg reported. The eCommerce giant also got the rights to buy as much as a 20 percent stake, Plus revealed in a regulatory filing, per Bloomberg. Amazon will...
The Amazon Appstore will decrease the revenue cut it takes from small businesses from 30 percent to 20 percent, Slashgear reported. The changes are coming after numerous complaints about app stores taking 30 percent, which had been accepted as a fact for a long time,...
Amazon said Monday (June 14) that it is opening access to its cloud-gaming platform Luna to Prime members June 21 and 22, which is Amazon Prime Day, according to an announcement on the company’s website. Previously Luna’s gaming pilots required potential users to sign up for...
Amazon is jumping into the fray of prescription discount offerings, hoping to grab a slice of the $360 billion U.S. medication market with its six-month plan for Prime members starting at $6, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (June 8). Since the majority of insurance firms don’t cover...
Among the greenfield opportunities beckoning for modernization and digitalization, none beckon quite as brightly as healthcare. After all, it’s an industry that represents more than 17 percent of U.S. GDP, as measured by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And by all accounts it...
Speculation among Amazon-watchers has been growing over the Prime question: When will the company hold its annual Prime Day sales? Bloomberg Technology reported that the event will take place on June 21 and 22, based on company records and a source familiar with the matter....
Amazon banned sellers of Chinese electronics brands earlier this month following a database leak that apparently connected some of these companies to fake reviews, which the world’s largest retailer says it forbids. But a report from Recode on Thursday (May 20) says internal communications obtained...
