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Amazon releases the top-selling books from 2015
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While the Amazon editors and Bill Gates have both revealed their top books of 2015, what did Amazon readers choose? Amazon released its customers’ favorite books of the year, and readers’ tastes ran the gamut from literary fiction, like Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, to the erotica of Grey: Fifty...
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Amazon opens pop-up movie theater at JFK to celebrate JetBlue partnership
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Another giant Amazon box is out in the wild, though this one is fairly unique given that it’s located inside an airport. The Seattle e-commerce giant has opened a new pop-up space at Terminal 5 inside New York City’s JFK airport to let travelers watch Amazon original programming. Called the “JetBlue Amazon Video event activation,” the temporary movie theater is...
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Research: Amazon won Cyber Monday with a whopping 36 percent of online sales
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Amazon is still the king of e-commerce, claiming a commanding 36 percent marketshare on the biggest online shopping day of the year, according to Slice Intelligence. Slice tracks the online retail business by looking at receipts from 3 million shoppers. Its data found that Cyber Monday still tops Black Friday for e-commerce, counting 74.6 million shoppers who spent an...
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Surprise! Amazon debuting first episode of ‘Transparent’ Season 2 tonight
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Transparent‘s second season was set to premiere on Dec. 11, but here’s another Cyber Monday trick Amazon has up its sleeve — the first show of the new season will be streaming for Prime members today. Transparent executive producer Jill Soloway tweeted the announcement: Episode one of season two sneakin' out at you tonight! #transparenttv https://t.co/E7N4Fr75rA — Jill...
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Amazon plans to ship 500 orders per second today
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Amazon’s biggest shopping day of the year, Cyber Monday, has the company predicting that it will be shipping out at least “500 orders every second” today, according to this report by King 5. Online shopping experienced huge bumps this weekend — as Bloomberg reports, at least 25 percent on Thanksgiving and 21.5 percent on Black Friday. Adobe predicts...
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Amazon reveals updated delivery drone design in new photos and video
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Amazon today released new photos and a video showing off a redesigned version of its delivery drone. It’s been almost exactly two years since Amazon first announced the “Amazon Prime Air” project and the company today showed off a new prototype drone that will deliver packages through the air directly to customers’ doorsteps in as little as 30 minutes. Here’s...
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