Amazon announced Thursday (Oct. 4) the preview of skill connections for all current Alexa locales. In a blog post, the company said companies can use skill connections to enable increased functionality without the customers having to invoke the other skills. Amazon said it requires minimal...
Amazon is now promoting its own products inside the listings of competitive brands. According to CNBC, some users searching for various products in beauty, health and household and baby items have reported seeing the link “Similar item from Our Brands” show up at the bottom...
Payments company Discover‘s new chief executive officer doesn’t believe that banks should be worried about tech giants like Amazon. “I view them as partners with leading-edge capabilities that we need,” CEO Roger Hochschild said in a telephone interview, according to Bloomberg. “Very few tech companies...
Saying Amazon had a busy week, or even that Amazon had am ambitious week, isn’t much of an announcement. Given the volume of things that are usually pouring out of Amazon, saying Amazon had a busy week is just an unnecessarily long way of saying...
Amazon’s Alexa Fund invested in three new startups this week. Bamboo Learning received Alexa funding, which will be used to continue building education skills that help students learn a variety of subjects. “The goal of the Alexa Fund is to find compelling companies for its...
Amazon has opened Amazon 4-star, a new store in New York City where every product is rated 4 stars and above, is a top seller or is new and trending on Amazon’s website. The store is located in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood, on Spring...
What’s old is always new again, and what’s new is often so very old. That’s not just the pseudo-intellectual basis of some booze-fueled, impromptu seminar held in a dorm room on Tuesday night because the internet went down. It’s an anchoring principle of modern economics,...
Amazon is rolling out new commerce capabilities for its Alexa voice assistant. The company is offering in-skill purchasing with a product dubbed Consumables. By using the function, developers will be able to sell products that are “in the moment” for consumers. That is, a player...
In a continued expansion of its Prime Now delivery offering, Amazon and Whole Foods Market are bringing the service to more cites: The companies have launched PrimeNow in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Madison, Omaha, St. Louis, Orlando, Tampa and Tulsa as well as additional...
