Amazon has brought Amazon One, its contactless technology that lets customers to pay by waving the palm of their hand, to a New York City Amazon Go location, according to a MarketWatch report on Monday (May 10). Amazon One technology is already available at Amazon...
Amazon, arguably one of the world’s more technologically advanced customer-facing companies, is deploying a tool that dates to the 1860s to verify the addresses of some U.S. suppliers. The Seattle-based company is sending postcards to third-party businesses to verify name and address, CNBC reported. According...
With COVID-19 cases worsening in India and Canada, Amazon will be postponing its Prime Day, CNBC reported. The two-day discount event will be temporarily paused in those countries, although Amazon didn’t specify any reschedule dates, according to CNBC. India has been ravaged by the pandemic...
It looks like Amazon sellers are getting a chance to build a more direct relationship with customers, thanks to new changes being rolled out on the marketplace. First reported by CNBC last week, Amazon is piloting a new service that will allow marketplace sellers that...
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...
