Amazon announced a new program today (April 4) designed to expand Amazon Payments into more eCommerce merchants’ websites. What this means is that Amazon is making a big push to enable eCommerce platform providers and developers to add the option for their customers to “Pay with...
Early this morning, Amazon released a blog post announcing its 101st Dash Button — one that will deliver consumers’ mail to them with a mere tap of the button. The new Amazon Dash Mail Button will deliver Prime subscribers their mail, wherever they may be, via...
Amazon’s fulfillment centers – The Happiest Places On Earth™ – have come under scrutiny lately for what some labor rights advocates perceive to be overly draconian anti-theft measures. In response to that criticism, Amazon is starting a new program aimed exclusively at keeping its warehouse workers...
It was a year ago that Amazon first released its Amazon Dash Buttons — a move that was received by some as an April Fools’ joke. But sure enough, it wasn’t. And one year later, Amazon has made its case as to why the Dash...
Amazon, Amazon, Amazon — no matter the mixed press that has come its way, the eCommerce giant still reigns supreme in the eyes of consumers. For the third year in a row, Amazon nabbed the number one spot on the Reputation Institute’s annual report of America’s most reputable...
Just two and a half decades ago, it was impossible to get food or medicine transported from one side of the city of Berlin to the other — no matter how long people tried. Now, the residents of Germany’s capital — both East and West — will...
Amazon just made the Echo’s voice-activated assistant, Alexa, a little more developer-friendly. The eCommerce giant has rolled out an improvement to the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to include new features for the technology, including the ability to tailor Alexa’s volume, how it plays back media, set...
The rebound for stocks has done much to highlight and underscore sanguine investor sentiment that has buoyed most indices to at least slight gains. As The Wall Street Journal noted on Tuesday (March 22), the Dow and the broader S&P have notched slight gains thus...
According to a ruling by the SEC, Amazon should allow shareholders to vote on a proposal on gender pay equality. The ruling comes following a proposal submitted to Amazon and other tech firms (including eBay and Intel) by Arjuna Capital, the activist arm of investment firm...
