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...
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...
