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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...
In the run-up to Black Friday 2016 and throughout the peak holiday shopping season last year, Amazon heavily promoted its own line of electronics...
BJ’s Wholesale Club, which was taken private six years ago by a pair of equity investment partners, is up for grabs once again. This...
After taking a sledgehammer to CE brick-and-mortar, a report from The New York Times indicates the e-tailer is weighing its entry into the format....
A study in 2016 supported what brick-and-mortar retailers had long complained about: Not collecting sales tax gave Amazon an unfair advantage. “Amazon, the online...
Underscoring its commitment to aerial delivery, Amazon has applied for a pair of sky-high patents describing a “super-drone collective” and a floating warehouse to...
As the appliance industry continues its push into smart home, vendors are increasingly looking to Amazon to help extend their beachheads. The latest majap...
Siri is welcoming a friend to the iPhone: Alexa. iPhone users can now make use of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, although they will need...
Amazon made no formal announcement, but after two years on the market the Amazon Echo can now stream audio to external Bluetooth speakers. Amazon...
One of the most coveted roles at Amazon is to serve as “shadow” to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. These top lieutenants spend a...
Amazon has begun a tradition of seasonal product previews for the press, and this year’s no exception. At an exhibition space in Manhattan’s West...
Giving Alexa-enabled devices voice call capabilities will provide consumers with a more defined, concrete justification for purchasing one. While Alexa now has more than...
Yale Locks & Hardware has joined the Alexa roster. Yale announced that its Yale Real Living deadbolts and levers with Z-Wave or ZigBee are...
Yamaha is bringing Amazon’s Alexa voice control to its MusicCast wireless multiroom audio products beginning this fall with more than 40 A/V products. The...
Amazon has invested mightily in its $99/year Prime membership program and a new study by market research firm Field Agent helps explain why. The...
Sonos was alone in the market when it launched the industry’s first Wi-Fi multiroom-audio speakers in 2005, but it’s not alone anymore. The number...
In an interview with Billboard that marks his place in the publication’s 2017 Power 100 list, Jeff Bezos examines the history and potential of...
You may recall Walmart’s recent online offer of free two-day shipping. The program, called simply “2-Day Shipping,” applies to more than 2 million popular...
Amazon has launched a free in-home consulting service to extend its beachhead in smart home. Leveraging its ubiquitous Alexa personal digital assistant platform, the...
Taking aim at Amazon’s Prime program, Walmart has begun offering free shipping on more than 2 million of the discounter’s most frequently purchased items,...
Charting own course with new Kentucky air hub Just before announcing its profit had grown 55 percent in Q4, Amazon harevealed plans to build...
Both the Apple TV and the Fire TV occupy the “Small But Mighty” segment in each company’s overall growth strategy. While not the most...
Amazon reported a 55 percent increase in fourth-quarter profits, to $749 million for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2016. But its stock still...
Amazon has announced plans to build a centralized air hub in northern Kentucky for its Prime Air fleet of 16 leased cargo jets. The...
Amazon is joining Roku and Google in embedding the capabilities of media-streaming dongles and set-top boxes into TVs. Value-priced TV brands Westinghouse Electronics, Seiki...
Lat year, CES 2016 provided one of the most significant recent announcements in the video space as Reed Hastings stated Netflix was going global....
Even without a formal presence at CES 2017 Amazon Echo was arguably the belle of the ball, and with good reason: In its two-plus short...
Shoppers are overwhelmingly high on having their purchases dropped off by drone, a new Field Agent poll shows. According to the survey of 2,010...
Good luck finding an Amazon Echo or Dot for Christmas. The wireless speaker-slash-home automation hub-slash-digital assistant is out of stock at Amazon and online...
SEATTLE — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Intersect Illinois and the Illinois Department of Commerce today announced that Amazon plans to open two fulfillment centers in...
Amazon’s voice-powered digital assistant Alexa had a novelty appeal to it upon its arrival in the Amazon Echo speaker. Streaming music, making shopping and...
The union for pilots flying Amazon’s new leased delivery fleet are taking their gripes over pay, staff shortages and working conditions directly to customers...
Guests at Steve Wynn’s Wynn Las Vegas casino may find themselves sharing a room with an unexpected guest next month. That’s when the hotel...
Amazon has completed its first customer delivery by drone, as part of an Amazon Prime Air pilot in England.
GE has integrated Amazon’s Alexa voice technology into an LED table lamp.
For Amazon, just opening a brick-and-mortar store is big news. Now the House That Bezos Built is taking showrooms one step further by opening...
NEW YORK — Some asset-based lenders (ABLs) still hesitate to lend against inventory held at Amazon’s warehouses. However, savvy e-tailers, distributors and manufacturers increasingly...
Amazon said four of its proprietary Echo and Fire devices outsold all other products purchased on its site over Black Friday weekend. The Amazon...
After leading Best Buy through five holiday seasons, chairman/CEO Hubert Joly feels confident about Christmas, and foresees a time when CE retail will be...
SEATTLE—(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced that a new set of diverse device makers joined the Amazon Dash Replenishment program (www.developer.amazon.com/drs), including GeniCan, Honeywell, Nestle and...
Shoppers using Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices got a leg up on the Black Friday rush this weekend. To help promote its personal digital assistant, the...
SEATTLE — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) predicts record-setting sales this year from businesses selling on Amazon as they prepare for a busy holiday season. To...