What if going to a store was easier than shopping online where you could just walk in and pick up your purchases and walk out with payment happening all in the background? You have heard about Amazon’s cashierless stores, Amazon Go, and their plans to open thousands of those stores in the coming years. Now […]
Amazon 4-Star is Amazon’s first retail store focused on selling Amazon’s products. The first of presumably many stores just opened in the Soho area of New York City and of course has made a big splash in the media. But what’s special about this store and what makes it a unique shopping experience? Amazon Physical Stores
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The European Union is on the prowl again in a likely attempt to win cash and concessions from Amazon. This is another investigation in a long string of investigations into American companies designed to extract big cash payments. European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, indicates that the issue is the possible use of third-party seller
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In Washington DC Tuesday, there was a meeting of state Attorneys General about big technology companies and their impact on the market and public discourse. Originally the meeting was called to investigate alleged anti-conservative bias on social media; however it quickly evolved into a wider discussion of multiple issues, including antitrust, consumer privacy and data
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Amazon has dethroned Google in product searches with over 54 percent of all product searches now happening on Amazon instead of Google. What this means is that brands must make Amazon SEO their priority in order to show up near the top of product searches for their related keywords. It’s predicted that an entire industry
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Snapchat is testing a new visual search tool and is partnering with Amazon to launch it. The new feature will make it possible to take a picture of a product or barcode with the Snapchat camera, and then press and hold on the camera screen to launch an Amazon product page to learn more and
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Keith Fitz-Gerald, an experienced trader, and analyst for Money Map Press was asked by Stuart Varney on Fox Business today to explain his rationale for Amazon hitting a $2 trillion valuation before Apple: “There are four key businesses here, artificial intelligence, entering your home, big data, and distribution into advertising. That’s the four business segments that
In it’s 11th annual holiday forecast, digital agency NetElixir projects online revenue will grow by 15 percent over last year to roughly $97 billion. Based on its analysis, Amazon is expected to account for 40 percent of holiday sales and mobile is expected to drive more than 42 percent of total online sales. Strong early
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You’ve all heard the story of Jamie Siminoff, creator of Doorbot, later renamed Ring, who was famously rejected on national TV on SharkTank, but then went on to create a wildly successful business. Earlier this year Amazon paid a reported $1 billion in cash for the business. Recently, Jamie Siminoff, Founder and Chief Inventor of Ring,
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Recently, Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, in a talk at the 2018 Air, Space & Cyber Conference, discussed the need for businesses to always be inventive. Businesses should seek out failure if it’s in pursuit of a radically new idea. He says that these experiments are crucial to business success. Bezos also is a proponent of
