Do you own an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot speaker? It might know whether you’re in the room. As The Tech Portal reported Monday (Nov. 15), newer versions of the Echo and Echo Dot, starting this week, will be able to detect people within a...
A March crash in Marietta, Georgia between an Amazon delivery van and a Tesla paralyzed a would-be medical student and turned the spotlight on how fault should be assigned when big companies farm out work to smaller third parties. Amazon Logistics subcontracts to outside delivery...
With holiday shopping underway earlier than ever for many people this year, retailers and brands have been rolling out deals nonstop for weeks, trying to entice consumers to shop with them. Amazon is no exception to this, but the eCommerce giant also has another proposition:...
Amazon is deploying Alexa to assisted living centers and hospitals to help providers connect patients to information and entertainment while also improving the care team’s overall efficiency. With Alexa bedside, senior citizen residents and patients can more easily stay connected with family, friends, caregivers, news...
Amazon won’t be going forward with reactivating its package delivery service to the trunks of customer cars anymore, according to CNBC. The service, which was called Key In-Car Delivery, was rolled out in 2018 for some Prime members as an extension of the Amazon Key...
Amazon has introduced its Product Opportunity Explorer tool for third-party sellers to find ways to roll out products “to serve unmet customer demand.” The announcement came during the retail giant’s Accelerate 2021 conference for third-party sellers. Amazon’s new Product Opportunity Explorer tool “helps take the...
Amazon on Tuesday (Oct. 19) rolled out new data that shows their third-party marketplace sellers are achieving success even as lawmakers increase their focus on the retail giant’s private-label business practices, according to a CNBC report. Amazon’s third-party marketplace, which debuted in 2000, now includes...
Amazon employed a campaign of creating copycat merchandise and manipulating search results to give its own products an advantage in India, according to a new report from Reuters. The news agency said on Wednesday (Oct. 13) that an examination of thousands of internal Amazon documents...
Amazon has rolled out its Amazon Prime service in Poland with free delivery and video streaming, Reuters reported. The news resulted in Polish eCommerce rival Allegro’s shares dropping by 3.7%, according to the report. The Polish Amazon site went live in March and has given...
