Amazon has just announced that Echo, its voice-activated home assistant, will be available at over 3,000 retail locations this holiday season. While the hands-free device has been available for several months online and at participating retailers like Staples, this marks the online retailer’s largest in-store...
The last two weeks have capped off what has been a less than spectacular three-month run for Walmart. The third quarter of 2015 opened with the news that Amazon had officially bounced Walmart from the #1 spot as the planet’s biggest retailer (by market cap),...
Amazon and Payoneer announced yesterday (Nov. 4) that Amazon has chosen the online payments company to expand its cross-border payments option for sellers on its marketplace. Through this partnership, Payoneer will serve as Amazon’s payments provider for sellers across 24 countries, which includes Amazon’s marketplaces...
Twenty years after first registering in the national consciousness as the eRetailer that specialized in connecting consumers to books for relatively little money through the magic of the Internet, Amazon is opening a real, live bookstore. A few hours after this story is published, Amazon...
Amazon is sticking to the territory it knows best: online. The retail behemoth will shut down its credit card reader, Amazon Register, a $10 POS device that plugged into a smartphone or a tablet. The service was aimed at small businesses and mom-and-pop stores competing with...
Amazon’s payment button is on the move. Though it was first announced back in 2013, “Pay with Amazon” — which provides eCommerce customers with the ability to use their payment information on file with Amazon to make purchases on other websites — is now going to...
In what appears to be a quest to be in the business of everything, it seems Amazon may have found its latest vertical to make an assault on. According to reports in BuzzFeed, the world’s largest retailer by market cap is considering launching its own...
The possibility of Amazon and Yelp combining forces has been bandied about for a while … and now it’s starting to bear fruit. On Amazon.com, the “What’s New” section in the description of Amazon Echo — the company’s voice-enabled robotic assistant — now includes mention that...
Amazon’s Q3 earnings announcement is a tale of two companies. One year ago, Amazon’s quarterly results were so bad that even The New York Times was mocking the company with its report, which kicked off with a snarky lede: “The chickens are not coming home to roost at Amazon just yet,...
