Keeping Current
These 12 Retailers Have Been Hit Hardest By Amazon
The “Amazon Effect” has cost retailers billions in lost revenue and market value over the past decade, leading to thousands of storefront closures. But...
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Am I Blu: Amazon Bans Phones Over Spyware Suspicions
Blu, the ultra-budget smartphone brand, has been dropped from Amazon’s Prime Exclusive Phones program over findings that its handsets secretly collect owners’ personal data...
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CEOs More Concerned By Amazon Than Donald Trump
If you thought that chaos in the White House or a legislative agenda adrift would be the top concerns of America’s business leaders, you’d be...
Financial
Amazon Sales Rise 25% In Q2 To Reach $38 Billion
Amazon’s net sales increased 25 percent to $38 billion in the second quarter, ended June 30, compared with $30.4 billion in Q2 2016. But...
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Jeff Bezos Knocked Bill Gates Out Of World’s Richest Man Spot For A Moment
As this story notes — along with just about every other one mentioning Jeff Bezos and his wealth — the Amazon founder is one...
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‘Alexa, How Am I Feeling?’ Amazon Reportedly Has Secret Health Care Team
According to the report, Amazon is exploring all avenues: hardware, software and Cloud storage. It’s a logical, if a bit unnerving step, for the...
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Smart TVs Nudging Roku, Chromecast Aside
The number of people in the U.S. who will use a smart TV is expected to rise 10.1 percent from last year, to 168.1...
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FTC Probing Allegations Of Amazon’s Deceptive Discounting
According to Consumer Watchdog, Amazon’s “straw man” prices are much higher than those found in the marketplace — and are often completely fictional. “As...
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Sears To Sell Kenmore Major Appliances On Amazon
Sears will begin selling its Kenmore line of major appliances on Amazon, marking the first time Kenmore major appliances are sold by another retailer....
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How Amazon Came To Dominate Consumer Electronics Retail
It wasn’t all that long ago when Amazon was struggling to get a toehold in CE. MarketWatch, with input from our friends at The...
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Amazon Show A Go For Echo Owners
Echo Show, Amazon’s first smart speaker with a touchscreen, is an object of desire among current Echo owners but merely rates a “meh” among...
Keeping Current
Amazon’s Next Echo Will Reportedly Be Shorter, Slimmer & More Apple HomePod-ish
While Apple was expected to discount its Alexa darlings for this year’s Prime Day, the slashing of the flagship Echo by 50 percent still...
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Prime Day Breaks Amazon Sales Records
Amazon said yesterday’s Prime Day sales promotion raked in more revenue than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. The 30-hour haul was up by...
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Retailers Mount Counter Campaigns Against Amazon Prime Day
Electronics and appliance retailers including Best Buy, Office Depot, Newegg, Sears and JCPenney are holding special sales of their own today in order to...
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Amazon Using Planes, Trains And Automobiles For Prime Day
With Amazon’s much-vaunted Prime Day sales event just hours away, here’s a 50-second look at the logistics it takes to pull it off —...
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Here’s How One Retailer Has Overcome Amazon
Dixons Carphone, Europe’s largest CE and appliance specialty chain and former Best Buy mobile partner, has outlived its brick-and-mortar competitors by learning how to...
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Walmart Vs. Amazon, Round 2
In its escalating open war against Amazon, Walmart has thrown down the gauntlet for the second time this month. After laying down the law...
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A Primer For Amazon Prime Day 2017
Amazon will kick off its third annual Prime Day at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, July 10. The sales event, which features “hundreds of...
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Best Buy Adding Amazon Alexa, Google Home Sections
Best Buy knows a good thing when it sees it. Rewarded for its smart-home forays with strong comp-sale gains, the retailer has accelerated its...
Home Automation
Sure To Debut Universal Remote App With Voice Command Capability At Mobile World Congress
Sure Universal, which markets a smartphone-based universal remote app, has added Amazon’s Alexa voice control to its capabilities. The company will debut the updated...
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Walmart To Vendors: Hey, You, Get Off Of Amazon’s Cloud
Although it may seem as if the gloves have truly come off, the fact remains that Walmart isn’t the only retailer that requires its...
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Prolitec Introduces Amazon Alexa Skill for Aera Home Fragrance System
Seattle, WA – Prolitec, a global leader in commercial ambient scenting, today announced that its popular Aera home fragrance system can now be voice controlled...
Appliances
Bosch, Kenmore Join The Amazon Alexa Bandwagon
BSH’s Bosch brand will soon begin integrating select major appliances with Amazon’s voice-operated Alexa AI platform. The interoperability began with Bosch’s built-in coffee machine...
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Amazon Aiming For Walmart’s Heart
Perhaps in response to recent online inroads by Walmart, Amazon is on the counterattack, offering discounted Prime membership rates to lower-income consumers, the discounter’s...
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Amazon May Give Smartphones Another Try
Sources say Amazon is ready to put its Fire phone fiasco behind it and launch a new entry-level model, perhaps for emerging markets, under...
Home Automation
Smart Speakers Are Driving Smart-Home Growth
Voice control in the connected-home market will rapidly expand the adoption of such devices, according to the latest forecast from Park Associates. Parks is...
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The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling! Wait, It’s Just Amazon
In this op-ed piece from the L.A. Times, author Amy Koss breathlessly (and we think incorrectly) predicts the end of brick-and-mortar retail at the...
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Amazon Opening NYC Bookstore Tomorrow
For a company that once belittled brick-and-mortar as overhead, Amazon has certainly taken on plenty of it, with dozens of U.S. distribution centers and...
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Dish Embraces Amazon Alexa, Fire TV
Dish has teamed up with Amazon to improve its DVR functionality. Available today, Dish customers with a Hopper or Wally and an Amazon Echo,...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Stranglehold On The Smart-Speaker Biz
A trio of new reports confirms what we kinda already know: that voice control is the happening new user interface, and that smart wireless...
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SNL Brings The Amazon Echo Silver To Seniors
We especially like the “Uh Huh” feature.
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TongFang Ceases Producing Seiki TVs; Will Start Shipping Element Amazon Fire TV June 14
Element Electronics has begun taking pre-orders on Amazon for its line of 4K Ultra HD Amazon Fire TVs. The LED TVs, first announced during...
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CASATUNES NOW TALKING TO AMAZON ALEXA VOICE SERVICE
Control CasaTunes and the musicBox 6 using Amazon Echo, Tap, and Dot Devices Ft. Collins, CO, May 10, 2016 – CasaTunes®, the leader in...
Home Automation
Amazon Shows Us Another Echo, This One With Touchscreen
For the second time in two weeks Amazon this morning has introduced another variant to its market-leading Echo smart-speaker line. This time, the House...
Home Automation
Amazon Echo Controls 71% Of Smart-Speaker Biz: Report
A trio of new reports confirms what we kinda already know: that voice control is the happening new user interface, and that smart wireless...
Keeping Current
Walmart May Be Readying An Amazon Dash Competitor
Walmart has made it no secret that it won’t go gentle into Amazon’s good night, revealing last year that it would slow brick-and-mortar openings...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Got Sol: GE’s Stand-Alone Alexa Lamp Will Ship In September
Consumers will soon be able to have Alexa-controlled smart lighting without owning an Echo, Dot, Tap or Look. GE has revealed shipping and pricing...
Blogs
Beating Amazon Is In Your Sales Team’s Hands
Store closings and loss of retail jobs continue to make business headlines, and many retailers with a brick-and-mortar presence blame Amazon and the online...
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Samsung & Amazon’s HDR10 Takes On Dolby Vision
Samsung and Amazon are teaming to deliver a higher standard of high-dynamic-range (HDR) performance to the video market. The Samsung-backed HDR10+ technology (based on...
Financial
Amazon Earnings Up 41% In Q1
Amazon reported its profits grew 41 percent for the first quarter, in no small part thanks to the global expansion of its retail and...
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Amazon Prime Membership Swells To 80 Million: CIRP
While growth of Amazon Prime membership is slowing due to saturation, the e-tailer is winning the loyalty battle as consumers continue to maintain or...