news
Amazon Launches 12-Day Sales Event
To keep the Black Friday sales momentum going, Amazon has kicked off another Days of Deals discount promotion through mid-December. This time, the world’s largest...
Amazon
news
Amazon Launches Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition Tablet
Amazon unveiled a Reader’s Edition of its recently launched Fire HD 8 tablet, bundling in a year of Kindle Unlimited access to books and...
news
Amazon Was Lowest In Black Friday Pricing, But Walmart & Best Buy Came Close
A combination of frequent price adjustments and deep discounts on select items made Amazon the king of competitive pricing over Black Friday weekend. According...
news
Amazon Was Lowest In Black Friday Pricing, But Walmart And Best Buy Came Close
A combination of frequent price adjustments and deep discounts on select items made Amazon the king of competitive pricing over Black Friday weekend. According...
news
Blue Shade: Amazon Makes Nighttime Reading Easier For Fire Tablets
Sweetening the deal for the many consumers who purchased an Amazon tablet over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday period, Amazon announced it’s adding new features...
news
Amazon Devices On Fire Over Black Friday Weekend
Amazon’s family of proprietary tech products got a running start to its holiday haul last weekend. The world’s largest e-tailer said it sold millions...
news
Amazon Formally Previews Drone Delivery System
Amidst all the Black Friday weekend hype, and as if it wasn’t busy enough, Amazon quietly released some new video previews of its long-awaited...
Keeping Current
Amazon Said Planning to Add Other Online Networks to Prime Video
The deal would give Prime customers yet another perk and could entice the younger, cord-cutting consumers. “Amazon.com Inc. will soon let viewers of its...
news
Amazon’s Cyber Week Begins On Saturday
Cyber Monday is shaping up to be a battle royale for digital dominance, and Amazon is not about to cede any ground. The world’s...
Keeping Current
Google Challenging Amazon’s Share Of Product Searches
The vast majority of product searches begin on Amazon, but Google is out to change that with a new, more mobile-friendly shopping search engine....
Keeping Current
Amazon’s Ingenious Scheme to Undermine Black Friday
With Amazon taking on Google as the No. 1 search method for buying products online, brick-and-mortar retailers face an uphill battle when it comes...
news
Amazon Reveals Black Friday Deals
Looking to score one of those Amazon Lightning Deals this holiday season? Better get the app. For the first time, Amazon will offer more...
news
Amazon’s Echo No Longer Plays Hard To Get
E-tailer goes old school, rolls out smart speaker to 3,000 brick-and-mortar stores Amazon’s $179 Echo smart speaker will reverberate in stores throughout the U.S....
news
Amazon Opens Its First Physical Bookstore
Amazon opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore last month. The storefront is located at 4601 26th Ave. NE in Seattle’s University Village, just a few...
CES-2016
Cord-Cutting PlayStation Vue Can Be Viewed In More Places
Cord cutters will be able to access the PlayStation Vue streaming service directly on a TV without connecting a PlayStation game console now that...
news
Amazon Tips Hand On Three Black Friday Tech Deals
Amazon disclosed a trio of Black Friday week discounts involving its proprietary Kindle and Fire devices. Beginning Sunday, Nov. 22, its Kindle e-reader will...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Echo No Longer Plays Hard To Get
Amazon’s $179 Echo smart speaker will reverberate in stores throughout the U.S. in time for the holidays as distribution opens up to more than...
news
Sprint Offers 1 Year Of Free Amazon Prime With Phone Purchase
Sprint hopes to accelerate its pace of postpaid-phone activations during the holiday selling season by offering one free year of Amazon Prime service with...
Keeping Current
Walmart Launching Its Own Version of Amazon Dash
Walmart is looking to give Amazon’s push-button Dash reordering system a run for its money with a similar new grocery program it developed with...
news
Amazon Opens Its 1st Book Store
Amazon has opened its first physical book store. The store is located at 4601 26th Ave. NE in Seattle’s University Village, just a few...
news
Amazon Prime Members Claim New Perk For Pre- And Post-Black Friday
Amazon pulled its Black Friday curtain back just a bit on Monday, revealing a new perk for Prime members. Prime members will now be...
news
Drone Wars: Walmart Has Amazon In Its Sights
Petitions FCC For Flight Testing Walmart’s efforts to catch up with Amazon have extended to drones. The world’s largest retailer by sales volume, if...
Keeping Current
Amazon Local To Offer Its Last Daily Deals Next Month
The world’s largest e-tailer is reportedly shutting down its Amazon Local deals-of-the-day platform in December amid a downturn for the format, as witnessed by...
news
Amazon Adds E-Commerce Functionality To Fire TV
Users of Amazon’s Fire TV streaming media devices can now order products from the service’s home screen while they watch movies and shows. According...
Keeping Current
Want To Know How Amazon.com Pays for All That Free Prime Shipping?
The Motley Fool does an impressive breakdown of the nitty-gritty of Amazon’s shipping strategy and expenses. “It’s now been over a decade since Amazon...
news
CE Chief Laura Orvidas Reflects On Amazon’s Tech And Retail Legacy
On the occasion of Amazon.com’s 20th anniversary, TWICE asked the e-tailer’s top electronics merchant, CE VP Laura Orvidas, for her take on the impact...
Blogs
Happy Birthday Amazon: An Anniversary Memoir
What a long, strange trip it’s been. The world was so much different 20 years ago, when a fledgling Amazon.com first when live online....
Financial
Amazon Back In The Black
Amazon.com soundly recovered from its $437 million year-ago loss by posting a $79 million profit in the third quarter. Driving the return to profitability...
news
Amazon Extends One-Hour ‘Prime Now’ Delivery To Two More Cities
Amazon.com has added San Francisco and San Antonio to its growing list of metro areas where Prime members can receive their online orders in...
news
Amazon Adds Same-Day Prime Delivery To Chicago & Orlando
Perhaps Amazon’s news will bring a little cheer to Cubs fans this morning. The e-tailer announced its Prime same-day delivery service will now be...
Keeping Current
Amazon’s Bestselling & Most Wished For Tech Devices
Amazon keeps daily and hourly tallies of its top 100 bestselling and most wished-for products in a variety of categories. Perhaps not surprisingly, the list...
IP Set-Top Boxes
Roku Steps Up To Ultra HD 4K Streaming
Roku will put streaming video into sharper focus with the launch this month of its first Ultra HD 4K set-top streaming player, the $129...
news
Amazon Prime Popularity Prompts Mailroom Changes At UConn
A growing deluge of Amazon Prime deliveries is forcing the University of Connecticut to rethink its mailroom operations. According to student paper The Daily...
news
Handmade At Amazon Puts Etsy On Notice
Next up in Amazon’s crosshairs: Etsy. The e-tailer announced Handmade at Amazon this morning, a section offering more than 80,000 “factory-free” products from over...
news
Watch Out Google: Amazon Is Killing It In e-Commerce … And Search
There’s no argument that Amazon.com is the 800-pound gorilla of e-commerce. What may be surprising, however, is that The House That Bezos Built has...
news
You Won’t Be Able To Buy That New Apple TV Or Chromecast On Amazon Anymore
As an indicator of how competitive the market for OTT video services and devices is becoming, Amazon will stop selling the Apple TV and...
news
Amazon’s Dash System Wants To Make It So You Never Write Another Shopping List Again
Amazon’s Dash system just got a lot more interesting. In addition to being able to order more paper towels with the push of a...
news
Amazon Flex Takes A Page From Uber Playbook
Amazon is looking for a few good drivers with flexible schedules to deliver Prime Now purchases to Seattle customers. The service, available now in...
Industry
How To Hack Your Amazon Dash Button
Consumers are finding their own creative uses for the order-fulfillment Amazon Dash buttons and they’re posting the instructions online. Brody Berson altered his Wi-Fi-enabled...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Alexa Brings Voice Control To Insteon Home Automation
Insteon’s home-automation hub has become the latest in a growing selection of home-automation products that can be controlled from Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo smart speaker....
news
Amazon, Walmart Salute Emmys With 67th Anniversary Sale
Two of the world’s largest retailers are saluting last Sunday’s 67th Primetime Emmy Awards Show today with a pair of promotions that pin prices...
news
More Brands Joining Amazon’s Dash Program
Advertising news site Digiday examines the Amazon Dash order-fulfillment system, noting they are more than just a novelty and can serve as a solution...