Amazon flirted with the $900 billion market cap club Wednesday (July 18) after completing a successful Prime Day shopping event. In a press release, the eCommerce giant said sales for this year’s Prime Day surpassed Cyber Monday, Black Friday and the Prime Day 2017 in...
Machine learning was one of the main subjects on Tuesday (July 17) during the Amazon AWS Summit in New York City, as the eCommerce operator rolled out new cloud-based features related to commerce and payments. The announcements from Amazon Web Services (AWS) come at a time...
Despite glitches in the early hours of Prime Day 2018, Amazon’s Prime Day sales event appears to be off to a strong start. Yahoo News, citing Feedvisor, reported spending during the first 12 hours of the 36-hour long event increased by 89 percent when compared...
Well, they all can’t be home runs. Amazon — after weeks of hype, advertising and general excitement building around its annual shopping holiday Prime Day — found that getting out of the gate was perhaps a bit harder than it anticipated. Shortly after 3pm EST, Amazon...
Amazon is rolling out its annual Prime Day event, and other merchants are taking note: Retailers from eBay to Target are rolling out their own promotions as they compete with Amazon for customers. It’s also hard to ignore the traffic that Prime Day generates, with...
After another year of waiting, Amazon‘s one-day (ish) annual celebration of all things eCommerce is set to commence this afternoon (July 16) — and run until Wednesday (July 18) morning. Bargain hunters are queued up, Amazon enthusiasts have been refreshing the site all morning to...
As Prime Day is getting ready for push-off in the U.S., workers in Spain and Germany are striking to protest working conditions at the company’s warehouses, according to CNBC reports. Going by the name Amazon En Lucha, the organized labor walkout took place outside of...
About two months after civil liberties organizations demanded that Amazon stop providing governments with facial recognition services, Microsoft is asking for government regulation of the technology. The tech company is also calling for laws to guide acceptable use, Reuters reported. “We believe Congress should create a...
With Amazon’s Prime Day on the horizon, the eCommerce retailer is gearing up for another sales event. But Amazon’s retail holiday also has the goal of making Prime a part of each household – and a way to serve as a “training day” for new...
