Amazon Fire news and trends

Amazon’s Quarter Is So Bad The NYTimes Is Making Fun Of It
News // October 24, 2014

It’s not easy to justify to investors how you can make $20 billion in revenue and still lose money, but that’s the question Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak had to answer repeatedly when defending Amazon’s vision for growth. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Amazon’s Fire Phone Price Slashed To 99 Cents
Mobile // September 09, 2014

Talk about your fire sale. Amazon on Monday (Sept. 8) slashed the price of its 32-GByte Fire smartphone from to 99 cents—barely two months after launching it at $199. The requirement to have a 2-year AT&T contract remained. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Amazon Fire Sales Ice Cold
Merchant Innovation // August 27, 2014

Amazon has sold only 35,000 of its new Fire phones in the first 20 days after it went on sale in July, according to data crunched by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Developers Flee The Fire Phone

February 23, 2015
That customers did not fall in love with Amazon’s Fire Phone is well known. While that is bad news for a consumer product, it is still a situation that could, and did, get worse. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — […]

Amazon’s Quarter Is So Bad The NYTimes Is Making Fun Of It

October 24, 2014
It’s not easy to justify to investors how you can make $20 billion in revenue and still lose money, but that’s the question Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak had to answer repeatedly when defending Amazon’s vision for...

Amazon’s Fire Phone Price Slashed To 99 Cents

September 09, 2014
Talk about your fire sale. Amazon on Monday (Sept. 8) slashed the price of its 32-GByte Fire smartphone from to 99 cents—barely two months after launching it at $199. The...

Amazon Fire Sales Ice Cold

August 27, 2014
Amazon has sold only 35,000 of its new Fire phones in the first 20 days after it went on sale in July, according to data crunched by the U.K.’s Guardian...