Shake-ups are expected when e-commerce giants like Amazon step into the brick-and-mortar world. The lessons learned from these large-scale moves can be applied to local markets on a smaller scale as well, making them valuable lessons in anticipation and corporate economic involvement for buyers, sellers, and agents everywhere. Much of ... Read More »
More than 1,300 businesses nominated themselves for Amazon’s Small Business of the Year awards, and these finalists are eligible for a prize package worth an estimated $80,000. The perks include dedicated account management, advertising and promotion assistance, and a visit to the Seattle HQ. Voting is live until midnight (PST) ... Read More »
This isn’t a popular opinion, but entrepreneurship is a terrible idea. While it’s great for society that so many people are innovating, taking massive risks and working 18-hour days is rarely in the individual’s best interest. Yes, the potential payout is huge, but the odds of success are low. At ... Read More »
Singapore/Seattle: In a rare retreat for Amazon.com Inc., the e-commerce giant plans to shut down its Chinese marketplace business in July as it shifts its focus to offering mainland consumers overseas products rather than goods from local sellers. Amazon will keep running its other businesses in China, including Amazon Web Services, ... Read More »
On the biggest shopping day of the year, U.K.-based trade union GMB is organizing a protest against Amazon for what it calls “inhuman” conditions for warehouse workers. Amazon has been under a microscope recently as it gets ready to bring 25,000 jobs to each of two new “headquarters” locations ... Read More »
Amazon has revealed plans for a grocery shop without a checkout process, where customers will instead pay for the goods they have selected via an app. The Just Walk Out shopping experience uses the same types of technologies found in self-driving cars. The system detects when items are taken or ... Read More »
Major internet services including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon suffered service interruptions and outages on Friday as a US internet provider came under sustained cyber attack. The internet service company Dyn, which routes and manages internet traffic, said that it had suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its ... Read More »
Amazon says it has ordered 13 episodes of a new docu-series called American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story. The program combines archival footage, interviews and cinematic reenactments to tell the story of Playboy magazine’s founder, who is now 90. It will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the United ... Read More »
In today’s world, filled with internet entrepreneurs and experts vying for attention in a cluttered online space, there is a prevailing trend of each person speaking louder than the next. The resulting cacophony is enough to leave anyone confused and disheartened. Greg Mercer and his team Greg Mercer and his ... Read More »
Amazon announced Monday a new partnership with the British government to begin the development of a drone delivery system of parcels, the company said in a statement. Support for the development of drone delivery has come from Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority, allowing the online retailer to experiment with drone usage ... Read More »
A recent study found that three out of four teachers are using open educational resources these days, which is thanks in part to both easy access and widespread encouragement. Last year, the Department of Education began its #GoOpen campaign, a campaign that encourages schools to try out OERs and provides ... Read More »
Mobile handsets worth about Rs 10.37 lakh were allegedly stolen from the godown of an e-commerce company by its employees in Thane, police said on Wednesday. According to a police complaint lodged by Amazon, on May 22, a total of 17 mobile handsets were stolen by five contractual employees from ... Read More »
