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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Sears Lures Former Amazon Fulfillment Chief Girish Lakshman From Retirement
Sears Holdings has scored something of a coup by bringing over former Amazon.com logistics head Girish Lakshman as fulfillment president. The newly created position...
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Not A Rumor: Amazon Debuts $50 Fire Tablet
Also adds 4K UHD to new Fire TV Amazon expects to put new tablets and Fire TVs under the Christmas tree with the launch...
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Amazon Drops $50 Fire Tablet, Fire TVs Into Market
Amazon expects to put new tablets and Fire TVs under the Christmas tree with the launch of a $49.99 tablet, a new kids’ tablet...
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Bezos Nearing Blast-Off
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin, his privately funded space-exploration start-up, will launch from Cape Canaveral. Blue Origin is teaming with United Launch...
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Amazon Brings 1-Hour ‘Prime Now’ Delivery To Los Angeles
Amazon continues its Prime Now expansion with the announcement that its one-hour delivery service is now available in Los Angeles, bringing its total to...
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Stitch Labs plus Amazon gives retailers a 71 percent sales boost
New features by inventory leader give retailers visibility and automation needed to maximize Amazon sales through the holiday season (SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 9,...
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Hungry In Seattle? Amazon Has You Covered
Attention Amazon Prime subscribers: Yet another new perk has been added. Amazon announced that Prime subscribers in Seattle can now order restaurant delivery using...
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Amazon To Get Down and Dirty With $50 6-Inch Tablet
Amazon hopes to build its tablet share with a new round of tablets that will include a $50 model that’s half the price of...
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LG Adds Streaming Of Amazon 4K HDR
LG is getting in on the high dynamic range (HDR) action. Flat and curved 4K Ultra HD OLED TVs in LG’s 2015 OLED lineup...
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Amazon Sweetens The Prime Pot, Again
Amazon has sweetened the Prime pot a bit more. Prime members can now download Amazon Video content to Apple and Android devices for offline...
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Amazon Adds Dash Brands, Will Reimburse Cost Of Button
Amazon is making it easier (and cheaper) for consumers to purchase its recurring-order-fulfillment Dash buttons. The e-tailer said it will now reimburse consumers the...
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Amazon 4K HDR Streams Come To LG TVs
LG is getting in on the high dynamic range (HDR) action. Flat and curved 4K Ultra HD OLED TVs in LG’s 2015 OLED lineup...
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Amazon Prime Video Now Permits Offline Downloads
Amazon just sweetened the Prime pot a bit more. Beginning today, Prime members will be able to download Amazon Video content to Apple and...
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Best Buy Reaches Price Parity With Amazon
Amazon.com has lost what may have been its greatest competitive advantage over Best Buy: pricing. According to a series of price checks conducted by...
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Amazon Scaling Back Development Of Consumer Products?
Amazon has scaled back or halted development of some consumer products as part of a more cautious spending approach taken to heed investors’ calls...
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HBO Now Comes To Amazon Fire TV
HBO Now, the premium programmer’s new standalone OTT service, is now available on the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, a debut that...
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Amazon’s New York Times Exposé: The Two Faces Of Empire
Yesterday’s blistering New York Times report on life at Amazon.com, and the measured response by a surprised CEO/founder Jeff Bezos, paint strikingly different portraits...
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Sorry Rubio. Amazon Isn’t The Largest Retailer In The World
In last night’s GOP Debate on Fox, U.S. State Senator and Republican candidate Marco Rubio said Amazon is the country’s and the world’s largest...
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Amazon’s Echo Heard In Staples
Framingham, Mass. — Amazon has extended distribution of its Echo smart speaker to Staples, making it the exclusive third-party retailer of the Cloud-based device....
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Amazon Growing, No Signs Of Slowing
SEATTLE — Amazon would like to become the Internet of Everything. Fresh off the heels of what it proclaimed a wildly successful Prime Day...
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Amazon’s Dash Buttons Become A Reality
Seattle — It really wasn’t an early April Fool’s joke. Amazon Prime members can now purchase the e-tailer’s instant-ordering Dash buttons. The Wi-Fi buttons,...
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Amazon Continues To Court Start-Ups With New Launchpad Program
Seattle — Amazon continues its pursuit of start-ups, with its newest platform designed to pave a ready-made road to selling for the e-tailer. Start-ups...
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Amazon Home Services Now Lets Users Custom Order A Job
Seattle — The sky’s the limit for Amazon’s Home Services program. First announced in the spring, Amazon Home Services lets consumers solicit providers for...
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Amazon Cites Record-Breaking Sales Amid Prime Day Disses
SEATTLE – A flurry of negative social media surrounding last week’s Prime Day sales event prompted a rare mid-promotion response from Amazon.com. Reports of...
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Prime Day Breaks Records: By The Numbers
Seattle — Despite much grumbling from consumers in social media, Amazon said it sold more units on Prime Day than the biggest Black Friday...
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Amazon Responds To Prime Day Disses
Seattle – A flurry of negative social media surrounding today’s Prime Day sales event has prompted a response from Amazon.com. Reports of system glitches and...
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The Best Tweets Dissing Amazon’s PrimeDay
To say today’s much-hyped ZOMG!-better-than-Black-Friday Amazon PrimeDay event was disappointing to Prime Members may be an understatement, at least if the Twitter world is...
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Amazon Leans On CE For Tomorrow’s Prime Promo
Seattle — Surprise, surprise: Consumer electronics will be featured prominently in a sales promotion. This particular event is no ordinary one, however: It’s Amazon.com’s...
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Predictions About Amazon Prime Day
Amazon plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its launch with Prime Day, which will offer Prime members a series of flash deals from...
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Walmart Answers Amazon Promo
Updated! Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart ain’t buying Amazon.com’s 20th anniversary Prime promotion. The online event, slated for Wednesday, promises more discounts than Black Friday...
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Amazon Marking 20th Anniversary With ‘Prime’ Promotion
Seattle – Amazon.com is promising to kick out the jams for its 20th birthday next week. As part of the celebration, the online leviathan...
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Is Amazon’s CE Juggernaut Slowing?
Is Amazon.com approaching the end of its run of gobbling up market share in consumer electronics? Sure looks that way when you dig into...