Amazon launched a Hebrew-language site on Wednesday (Aug. 21) in a bid to get Israeli companies to sell through the company in the country, according to a report by Reuters. The move is Amazon’s latest foray into starting to operate in Israel. Amazon is already...
Amazon opened its biggest campus in the world on Wednesday (Aug 21) in Hyderabad, India, according to a report by Reuters. The move illustrates Amazon’s aggressive push to expand in the country, despite stiff competition from companies like Walmart, and stringent regulations in the country...
Among the biggest battlegrounds in retail is not only what amounts to a moving target — but a race involving the human voice. Moreover, now Amazon is reportedly trying to up its presence in this particular and growing area of commerce, a sign of the...
Amazon’s top executives allegedly made donations to the chair in charge of investigating the eCommerce giant, CNBC reported on Sunday (Aug. 18). The donations were reportedly made two months before lawmakers were planning to interrogate Amazon as part of a bigger antitrust probe that also...
Online retail giant Amazon will start labeling certain products “Top Brands” in a pilot that will attempt to give big names the type of favorable positioning they get at physical retailers, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Aug. 16). Speedo, New Balance, Under Armour and Fruit of...
Amazon has announced that it is set to open an Amazon Books location in Nashville, as well as an Amazon 4-star store in Boston. Geek Wire reported that the announcement came on the same day the eCommerce giant launched its fourth 4-star store in Seattle....
Amazon is launching a new program that will allow third-party sellers to donate excess or unwanted inventory to charity. The new program — Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Donations — enables sellers to store their inventory in the eCommerce giant’s warehouses in the U.S. and U.K.,...
Lawmakers want to know how Amazon determines which products receive its “Amazon’s Choice” badge. In a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal expressed concern that the eCommerce giant could be leading consumers into buying “inferior”...
The privacy watchdog in Luxembourg, where Amazon has its European headquarters, has reached out to Amazon to get more info about its voice assistant, Alexa, and what the company does with its voice recordings. Reuters is reporting that the move signifies an uptick in regulatory...
