Sears Auto Centers announced Wednesday (May 9) a new deal with Amazon.com to provide full-service tire installation and balancing for customers who purchase any brand of tires on Amazon.com. The service will be launching across the U.S. during the next few weeks. In a press release,...
Smart doorbell and security camera maker Ring has launched a new standalone Neighbors app. According to Venture Beat, the announcement comes just two months after Ring was acquired by Amazon for $1 billion. The Neighbors app, available for Android and iOS, builds on Ring’s existing...
Half of all the items purchased on Amazon come from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Amazon noted in its first Small Business Impact Report. The company also said in an announcement that SMBs have been on Amazon’s platform for more than 20 years. Amazon’s CEO of Worldwide Consumer Jeff...
Amazon wants to improve sizing, and so, the eCommerce retailer is studying different body types. More specifically, Amazon is inviting people to visit a New York City office building once every other week for 20 weeks to track small changes and variations in their measurements...
Amazon is getting into the pet supplies market, rolling out a brand of pet products dubbed Wag, with dry dog food launching Wednesday (May 3). Bloomberg, citing Amazon, reported the brand is only available to Prime subscribers and is the latest in its private label...
Amazon is offering discounts to merchants who use its online payments service. According to Bloomberg, online merchants using Amazon’s service have paid about 2.9 percent of each credit card transaction plus 30 cents, which is shared among Amazon, card issuers and payment networks. Now the...
Amazon is gearing up to offer its Prime members new benefits centered around Whole Foods — including discounts on food items. CNBC, citing sources, reported that the new benefits are aimed at bringing Prime more into the fold when it comes to groceries and giving...
Amazon, announced news on Tuesday (May 1) that it will expand its Boston Tech Hub, creating 2,000 new tech jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering. In a press release, the eCommerce giant said that together with its customer...
As a first for its Prime membership service, Amazon has unveiled a subscription service for children’s books. Through the program, customers will be able to purchase age-appropriate boxes of books picked out by Amazon’s team of editors, TechCrunch reported. “These books include classics that have stood...
