Amazon, the world’s biggest eCommerce marketplace, is moving into the London hair care space with two-floor salons that offer augmented reality (AR) tools for consultations and point-and-learn technology. The new hair salon concept — Amazon Salon — is intended to open a physical space in...
Amazon is betting that it will hit a home run with its new wireless earbuds. The new Echo Buds are smaller, cheaper and have better noise cancellation than the previous model — and they’re on sale, for now. Announcing the redesigned Echo Buds in a...
In the bid to refashion commerce, Amazon has been a juggernaut. The pandemic, of course, has strained even the online giant’s logistics capabilities. Among the efforts to shorten delivery times and address consumers’ expectations that just about everything be dropped on the doorstep, Amazon has...
Amazon said it is “on track” to meet sweeping targets for growth in India that the company announced in January 2020, according to a Thursday (April 8) press release. The company said it has “digitized 2.5 million MSMEs, enabled cumulative exports worth $3 billion and...
Amazon has bought retail tech startup Perpule in an all-cash deal worth nearly 1.1 billion Indian rupees (about $14.7 million), Mint reported. The U.S. tech giant is likely to pay remuneration to the employees of Perpule. That could help continue to bolster the deal up...
The National Football League (NFL) is growing its partnership with Amazon, offering an expanded fan shop with new, officially licensed gear that builds on the limited merchandise previously sold, Sportico reported. Fanatics, the biggest seller of licensed fan gear worldwide, operates the NFL’s online store. It...
Amazon Music announced Wednesday (March 10) “the integration of artist merchandise within its mobile app.” What that means is that “artist merchandise will now appear in the Amazon Music app on participating artists’ pages, side-by-side with their songs, albums, live streams, and music videos.” Clearly,...
Amazon India has expanded its food delivery service, Amazon Food, across Bengaluru, according to a report from Mint. The move will help expand the company to 62 ZIP codes and will consist of over 2,500 restaurants and cloud kitchens, the report stated. Amazon’s move into...
Amazon is opening a cashierless store in London on Thursday (March 4), its first physical retail location outside of North America, The Financial Times reported. The 2,500-square-foot physical store will be branded Amazon Fresh and located in West London, in the Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre....
