This Week In Amazon: Happy Wife, Electric Dreams
Also: One tech accessory maker says "Cluck You" to the e-commerce behemoth.
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Also: One tech accessory maker says "Cluck You" to the e-commerce behemoth.
Alexa invades Windows 10 and squares off with Google in Las Vegas
The virtual assistant can now control microwave ovens by voice.
That’s the prediction of tech venture capitalist Gene Munster of Loup Ventures, who makes a pretty compelling case for consolidation in his company’s New...
Amazon is reportedly testing a new approach to order fulfillment that will allow it to pick up and deliver items directly from the warehouses of...
Google unveiled a its new lineup of retail hardware products Wednesday, led by a new Pixel 2 lineup that will compete with new smartphones...
Smartphone users seem to be taking sides in the Amazon vs. Google smart speaker race. New analysis from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) indicates...
Sonos continued its commitment to voice control with the launch of a new “platform-agnostic” speaker that will be compatible with Google Assistant, Alexa and...
With Amazon unleashing a bumper crop of Echo devices last week and Google unveiling its own array of new devices today, the battle lines are...
A fraudulent husband-and-wife team used Amazon‘s liberal return policy to steal more than $1.2 million in GoPro cameras, Xbox consoles, Samsung smartwatches and other...
The next door knock you hear might very well be Amazon or Best Buy. In a move that hearkens back to the door-to-door salesman days...
Amazon introduced a spate of new Echo devices and Alexa features on Wednesday, clearly determined to not simply put an Echo in every home...
The donations will be spread out over five years and come as part of a larger push by the Trump administration to direct grant...
For a company that once pooh-poohed physical storefronts, Amazon sure is buying, building and borrowing a lot of them. The reason, suggests one source:...
Amazon will further wend its way into physical retail next month when 82 Kohl’s stores in Chicago and Los Angeles begin accepting product returns...
Amazon updated its Fire HD 10 tablet, the company’s largest model, giving the new version hands-free Alexa capabilities. It’s been one year since that...
Amazon is taking 360,000 square feet of space in Manhattan’s new Hudson Yards complex to house its advertising team, which handles marketing, product, design...
Three years after Amazon hired Google Glass founder Babak Parviz, the e-tailer is reportedly working on its own version of smart glasses, albeit with...
Amazon will further wend its way into physical retail next month when 82 Kohl’s stores in Chicago and Los Angeles begin accepting product returns...
Yes, Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly cited well-known tactics like pricing strategies and consolidating operations. But did you know that the retailer even examined...
Amazon updated its Fire HD 10 tablet, the company’s largest model, giving the new version hands-free Alexa capabilities. It’s been one year since that...
The report notes that although investors haven’t been this down on retail since 2008 and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, they’ve been wrong before (many...
Not only does the store experience matter, Alber said, but customer satisfaction with delivery service is paramount. “Williams-Sonoma CEO Laura Alber is still bullish...
Amazon is looking to build a second headquarters site in North America, and is accepting proposals from potential state and local government hosts. Founder/CEO...
Kohl’s, the discount junior department store chain, will begin testing interactive smart-home display areas next month featuring Amazon devices, accessories, services and personnel. The...
A pre-holiday consumer survey by think tank Fung Global Retail & Technology points to fourth-quarter dominance by Amazon, with 75 percent of respondents expecting to shop...
After closing on its Whole Foods acquisition yesterday, Amazon’s foray into brick-and-mortar no longer seems like the retailer is merely dipping its toe into...
Alexa can now deliver multiroom audio. Amazon announced on Tuesday that its Echo devices can now act as multiroom speakers using Alexa. Consumers can...
Your wish is their command. Beginning in late September, Walmart customers will be able to purchase hundreds of thousands of items from the discount...
Amazon upped the ante on shipment gratification with its debut of Instant Pickup in five U.S. cities. Geared toward college students, Instant Pickup enables...
President Trump took time out from his Charlottesville, Va., controversy yesterday to vilify Amazon via his Twitter account. In a tweet sent out at...
Sears’ launch of Kenmore-brand appliances on Amazon is picking up speed. Four weeks after it began offering a limited assortment of private-label majaps to...
Amazon upped the ante on shipment gratification with the debut of Instant Pickup in five U.S. cities. Geared toward college students, Instant Pickup enables...
Or at least their market caps. Charts compiled by VisualCapitalist.com show how Amazon dwarfs the combined market value of eight leading publicly traded national...
Herein The Street recounts 50 reasons why Sears was so willing to share its crown jewel appliance line with the master disruptor and industry...
Fun fact: Amazon is now the world’s largest audio equipment vendor. Thanks to the success of smart speakers with voice personal assistants (VPAs), the...
Alarm bells should have sounded throughout major appliancedom last month, when Sears Holdings found another retailer willing to sell its fading Kenmore brand of...
The tablet market showed some signs of life in the second quarter despite a continued downward spiral in overall sales. According to research from...
Beginning Oct. 2, just in time for the holiday season, Amazon will begin forcing any third-party seller that’s not using its fulfillment service to...