Well, they all can’t be home runs. Amazon — after weeks of hype, advertising and general excitement building around its annual shopping holiday Prime Day — found that getting out of the gate was perhaps a bit harder than it anticipated. Shortly after 3pm EST, Amazon...
Amazon is rolling out its annual Prime Day event, and other merchants are taking note: Retailers from eBay to Target are rolling out their own promotions as they compete with Amazon for customers. It’s also hard to ignore the traffic that Prime Day generates, with...
After another year of waiting, Amazon‘s one-day (ish) annual celebration of all things eCommerce is set to commence this afternoon (July 16) — and run until Wednesday (July 18) morning. Bargain hunters are queued up, Amazon enthusiasts have been refreshing the site all morning to...
As Prime Day is getting ready for push-off in the U.S., workers in Spain and Germany are striking to protest working conditions at the company’s warehouses, according to CNBC reports. Going by the name Amazon En Lucha, the organized labor walkout took place outside of...
About two months after civil liberties organizations demanded that Amazon stop providing governments with facial recognition services, Microsoft is asking for government regulation of the technology. The tech company is also calling for laws to guide acceptable use, Reuters reported. “We believe Congress should create a...
With Amazon’s Prime Day on the horizon, the eCommerce retailer is gearing up for another sales event. But Amazon’s retail holiday also has the goal of making Prime a part of each household – and a way to serve as a “training day” for new...
Amazon is in talks with Xealth, and potentially two more hospital networks, to take part in a test project that would enable doctors to recommend bundles of medical products to patients while they are still in the hospital. CNBC reported the products would be delivered...
Now that Whole Foods is part of the Amazon family, it probably comes as no surprise that it is joining the Prime Day party. In addition to the tiers of savings Whole Foods has been rolling out to Prime members over the last several months, a...
In Amazon‘s world, the days just keep getting longer. The next Prime Day is a week away, and the eCommerce operator’s annual sales and marketing frenzy will run 36 hours this year (starting at 3 p.m. EST on July 16), up from 30 hours last...
