Amazon may be in search of a way to put advertising data on the blockchain, according to reports. The company recently put up a job posting looking for a software development engineer in advertising blockchain. Amazon said the potential candidate will help the company build...
Students with an Amazon Prime subscription can now get Amazon Music for just 99 cents a month, down from the student price of $4.99, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Aug. 5). With Amazon Music Unlimited, subscribers can listen to more than 50 million songs. Amazon’s Prime...
Merchants who sell their products on both Amazon and Walmart are complaining about the pressure they’re getting from Amazon to raise their prices on Walmart. As Bloomberg has reported, Amazon scans rivals’ prices to see if they’re lower, and if it finds a cheaper product...
Investigators from the Federal Reserve carried out an inspection of Amazon’s cloud in April as Washington looks into ways to regulate companies that provide the service. Although the investigation came around at the same time a Seattle woman hacked a database of credit-card issuer Capital...
Amazon released a transparency report on its website on Wednesday (July 31), and it said that for the first six months of the year, the U.S. government requested more data than it had in the six months before, according to a report by TechCrunch. “Amazon...
Amazon is reportedly considering leasing a building in the famous Fifth Avenue area of New York. The building is currently owned by WeWork, and was formerly the flagship location of the shopping brand Lord & Taylor, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal....
In a quest to expand brand partnerships, Amazon is offering independent merchants prominent placement on its platform as well as marketing support and product reviews. The cost for entry into the Amazon Accelerator Program is steep, however, as merchants can possibly lose their brands and...
Data shows that shoppers spent more than 10 times as much money on Amazon during the first 24 hours of Prime Day than they did on Walmart and eBay combined. According to eCommerce research company Edison Trends, sales in the first 24 hours were up...
Amazon’s impact from Prime Day this year will again lift the U.S. eCommerce market, according to a report by TechCrunch. Adobe Digital Insights (ADI) predicts that top retailers who have more than $1 billion in online sales will have a revenue lift of 79 percent,...
