Amazon’s Echo, the AI-enabled Bluetooth speaker that has been a surprising hardware success, is getting two new siblings, the company announced today.The devices extend the reach of Alexa, the company’s virtual,...
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Amazon turns to Ian Freed, former Fire Phone leader, to run restaurant delivery, report says
Ian Freed, the Amazon executive who helped lead the retailer’s ill-fated Fire Phone efforts, has re-emerged at the company, according to a...
Amazon raises free shipping minimum to $49 for non-Prime members
Amazon has raised the minimum order to $ 49 for non-Prime members to be eligible free shipping on items other than books, up from the previous minimum of $ 35, according to an updated support page...
GeekWire Radio: Robert Scoble on augmented reality, Amazon, and how technology is changing what it means to be human
In three years, everyone will be wearing virtual reality goggles and watching drone racing, wearing virtual makeup and commuting to work in a self-driving car. This was...
Amazon has the best corporate reputation in the U.S., new Harris Poll finds
Amazon has the best corporate reputation among the 100 most visible companies in the United States, just ahead of Apple and Google, according to a new Reputation Quotient Summary Report, released by the Harris Poll today. It’s the eighth consecutive year that...
Amazon to expand Uber-like Flex delivery service to standard packages, report says.
First, Amazon created Flex, an Uber-esque home delivery service for Prime Now customers. Now, the retailer appears to be contracting with private drivers to deliver even standard packages to customers’ doors — cutting out UPS even more.
In a story published Thursday, Reuters...
Want to buy one of everything on Amazon? This guy figured out what it would cost
If you already spend a lot of money shopping on Amazon for everything you need and, perhaps, plenty that you don’t, stop for a minute to think about what it would cost to buy one of everything on the site. OK, wait. Don’t do that. Kynan Eng works...
Amazon to compete with Fedex, UPS and Alibaba with secret ‘Dragon Boat’ plan, Bloomberg says
Despite Amazon’s dismissal of the speculation that the company plans to open its own global shipping operation and compete with UPS and Fedex, Bloomberg says it has seen documents that show the Web retailer plans to do exactly that. Bloomberg says Amazon has a...
How Amazon inspired a drone delivery system for birth control in Ghana
When U.N. health experts were trying to come up with a way to deliver contraceptives to women in hard-to-reach areas of Ghana, they took a page from Amazon’s drone delivery playbook. Their pilot project, known as Dr. One, was reportedly inspired in late 2014 by the Seattle-based online retailer’s...
Huge demand for $50 Fire tablet vaults Amazon to 3rd, behind Apple and Samsung — but it won’t last
Amazon’s tablet business grew at a faster rate than any other vendor in the critical holiday quarter, shipping 5.2 million units and posting year-over-year growth of more than 175 percent, according to...