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Is This What An Amazon Electronics Store Will Look Like?
Amazon used to declare brick-and-mortar dead. But in the wake of e-commerce tax initiatives and I-want-it-now fulfillment, the e-tail leviathan has done an about...
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Home Automation
Amazon’s Alexa Kisses Big Ass Fans
Wi-Fi ceiling fans and LED lighting fixtures from Haiku Homes, a division of Big Ass Solutions, will join the growing number of home-automation products...
Keeping Current
Amazon Exec Testifies In Staples-Office Depot Merger Suit
The head of Amazon’s fledgling B-to-B unit testified in federal court yesterday that the e-tailer is no threat to Staples’ or Office Depot’s commercial...
Industry
Amazon Dock-Blocking New Target Employee
Amazon has filed suit against a recent Target hire to prevent him from starting his new job next week. But this isn’t just any...
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Amazon Still Kicking It In Customer Satisfaction
Many moons ago Simon & Garfunkel (I’ll explain later kids) released a ditty called “Keep the Customer Satisfied.” It would make for an appropriate...
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EZVIZ Partners with Amazon and Trend Micro to Offer Secure Cloud Service
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – EZVIZ Inc., a designer and manufacturer of innovative lifestyle video electronics and connected home solutions, is bringing light to...
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Amazon’s $50 Fire Tablet Is … Well, On Fire
Amazon increased its global fourth-quarter tablet share to place third in tablet shipments, thanks in large part to the September launch of its $50...
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Amazon: Demand Drove Opening Of Premium-Audio Store
The online premium-audio store that Amazon quietly opened last October is raising the company’s visibility in high-end audio, attracting new vendors to Amazon, and...
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Amazon Fulfillment Takes Flight
Rumors of Amazon taking to the air have been confirmed, and we’re not talking drones. The e-tailer’s fulfillment arm, Amazon Fulfillment Services, has leased...
Keeping Current
Amazon’s Echo Could Be The Next Smartphone
So says a New York Times reporter who is crushing on the proprietary, personal digital assistant hiding in a Bluetooth speaker. Whether or not...
Audio
Sonos Trims Staff As It Redirects Resources To Voice Control & Paid Streaming
Sonos laid off an unspecified number of employees and is redirecting resources to bring voice control and enhanced streaming capabilities to its wireless multiroom-audio...
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HSN Customers Can Now Shop Via Amazon Fire TV
Amazon has added HSN’s Shop By Remote shopping app to its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick functionality. The move, first reported in October,...
Keeping Current
Amazon Removes Encryption Feature From Fire Tablet
Amid FBI demands that Apple crack its iPhone codes, Amazon has quietly unencrypted its Fire tablets in a move that one cryptologist described as...
Home Automation
Amazon Welcomes Echo’s Little Siblings: Dot & Tap
Amazon is bringing the capabilities of its $170 Echo wireless speaker and personal digital assistant to two new products: the Tap and the Dot....
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Inside Amazon’s New Bookstore
Field Agent, an Arkansas-based secret-shopper service, sent 10 undercover customers into Amazon’s first permanent brick-and-mortar store. Here’s what they found.
Home Automation
URC, Bose, Amazon, Brita Add Smart-Home Scenarios
Smart-home technology isn’t standing still, thanks to developments from a variety of suppliers offering new applications and control technologies. URC, the supplier of professionally...
Industry
Target Appoints Amazon’s Arthur Valdez Supply Chain Chief
Target has named former Amazon operations VP Arthur Valdez chief supply chain and logistics officer to shore up longstanding inventory issues at the discount...
Home Automation
Amazon Echo, Apple HomeKit Tops In Smart-Home Buzz
Amazon Echo and Apple HomeKit are tops in mindshare among consumers who go online to discuss smart-home ecosystems, while interest is waning in the...
Home Automation
Samsung Printers Join Amazon Dash Cache
Select Wi-Fi printers from Samsung are the latest devices to join Amazon’s Dash automatic replenishment system. By signing up for the program through Samsung’s...
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Amazon Ups Free-Shipping Minimum For Non-Prime Customers
The days of free shipping on orders of $35 or more have quietly ended at Amazon. Now, non-Prime members will have to purchase a...
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Amazon Buys Rights For Woody Allen Film
Amazon is coming to a big screen near you. The e-tailer’s Amazon Studios arm acquired the rights to Woody Allen’s latest film and plans...
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Amazon Deploying ‘Dragon Boat’ To Corner Global e-Commerce
Looking to out-Alibaba Alibaba with sourcing An internal report from Amazon obtained by Bloomberg News outlines a plan to build a global e-commerce and...
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Amazon Deploying ‘Dragon Boat’ To Corner Global e-Commerce
An internal report from Amazon obtained by Bloomberg News outlines a plan to build a global e-commerce and supply-chain network that would blunt Alibaba,...
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Amazon Echo Adds New Voice: Spotify Premium
Echo, Amazon’s $170 wireless speaker and digital assistant, is getting a new music service: Spotify Premium. The subscription service, requested by Echo users, joins...
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Amazon Echo Gets New Skill For Super Bowl
Super Bowl fans and couch potatoes rejoice — you can now order a Domino’s pizza without lifting a finger. In time for Sunday’s Big...
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Amazon May Open 400 New Bookstores: Reports
Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. After helping to devastate chains like Borders and Barnes & Noble with rock-bottom book prices, Amazon has...
Financial
Bezos Loses Billions In Amazon Sell-Off
Wall Street punished Amazon hard today for turning in fourth-quarter and full-year results that any business would give its eye teeth for. At one...
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Amazon Taps Alec Baldwin, Dan Marino For Its First-Ever Super Bowl Spot
Amazon has thrown its hat into the Super Bowl TV commercial competition with it’s first-ever ad for the Big Game. The No. 1 e-tailer...
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Amazon Dash Begins Connected-Device Deployment
The first connected devices to integrate Amazon’s Dash automatic replenishment system are ready for their close-up, Mr. Bezos. First out of the starting gate...
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Amazon Suffers When Sales Tax Is Imposed: Report
A new study supports what retailers have been screaming about for years: Amazon has an unfair advantage in states where it doesn’t collect sales...
Home Automation
Amazon Begins Auto Replenishment Via Dash-Connected Devices
The first connected devices to integrate Amazon’s Dash automatic replenishment system are ready for their close-up, Mr. Bezos. First out of the starting gate...
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Amazon Sweetens Prime Pot For Gamers
Amazon has upped its (video) game by offering Prime members 20 percent off all new titles. The newest perk to Amazon’s $99/year Prime loyalty...
Keeping Current
Amazon to Release Portable Version of Echo Speaker in Coming Weeks
Amazon’s plans to extend its Echo franchise to include a portable model at a lower price will expand the market for DIY home automation...
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Best Buy, Target, Amazon Cop DEG Awards At CES 2016
Hollywood’s The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) bestowed retail honors upon Best Buy, Target and Amazon at its annual CES awards reception last night at The Encore. The studio-driven...
Appliances
Samsung Smart Fridge Harmonizes With Amazon Echo’s Alexa
Answering the question of “What is the coolest thing at CES,” Samsung is certainly a top contender with its Family Hub refrigerator, arguably the...
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Amazon Tops In Customer Satisfaction (Again)
There’s a reason why Amazon is eating everyone’s supper and it can be boiled down to two words: customer satisfaction. The term has actually...
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$50 Fire Tablet Was Amazon’s Top Holiday Seller
Demand for Amazon’s 7-inch Fire tablet set the e-commerce site ablaze this holiday season. The $50 device, launched 15 weeks ago, was the retailer’s...
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Amazon Crushing The Holiday Season: Report
A new consumer study by digital services firm BloomReach shows that Amazon has utterly dominated the holiday selling season in online searches, shopping and...
Keeping Current
Amazon Plays Up ‘Prime Now’ For Christmas
Amazon has added 4,000 gift items to its limited Prime Now assortment as a solution to last-minute shoppers with access to the 1- and...
Keeping Current
Amazon Just Keeps Truckin’
To help ease its fulfillment burden this holiday season, Amazon for the first time is providing thousands of branded trailers to its third-party truck...
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New Online Service PriceLocal Gives Local Merchants A Fighting Chance Against Amazon
A new online shopping service developed by ex-Borders exec Matt Chosid gives local retailers a chance to compete directly against Amazon. The service, dubbed...
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Amazon Teams With Starz & Showtime For Streaming Partners Program
Amazon aims to push cable providers further to the edges of irrelevancy with its new Streaming Partners Program for cord cutters. Under the program,...