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Where Amazon and Walmart Are Looking Next: Even Faster Delivery, Healthcare and AI, Of Course

Earlier this week we dissected the similarities and differences between Amazon’s “Why” approach to innovation and Walmart’s “And” attitude. So, which strategy…

Amazon Launches Advertising Service for Retailer Apps, Websites

Amazon has unveiled a new offering — the Retail Ad Service — which will allow any retailer to easily offer advertising on…

How AI Assistants are Already Reshaping Shopping

2024 is set to go down in history as the year of the AI assistant. Amid all the ongoing furor around new…

Amazon’s Just Walk Out has Left the Building

[Update as of 4/17/2024] In a blog post clarifying its strategy around cashierless technology, Dilip Kumar, VP of AWS Applications at Amazon,…

As Amazon Launches AI Shopping Assistant, Jassy Predicts AI will Drive ‘Tens of Billions’ in Revenue in Coming Years

Amazon has debuted Rufus, a new generative AI-powered conversational shopping experience, at the same time that it reported strong earnings for Q4…

Amazon Adds ‘Badge Pay’ to Just Walk Out Deployment in Georgia Hospital

Amazon’s cashierless Just Walk Out technology has been deployed in more than 120 third-party locations, including airports, stadiums, university campuses, convenience stores…

Amazon to Sell Hyundai Cars Online in 2024; Automaker Selects AWS as Cloud Provider

No, they won’t arrive on your doorstep in a giant box cushioned by packing peanuts, but Amazon customers in the U.S. will…

Amazon Plans Chainwide Rollout of Palm-Based Payments at Whole Foods

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. The…

AWS to Invest an Additional $7.8B to Expand Ohio Facilities

Amazon will invest an estimated $7.8 billion by 2030 to expand its data center operations in Ohio, marking the second-biggest private sector…

Amazon Retail and Cloud Growth Slows in Q1 but AI Investments Hold Promise

Amazon’s net sales grew 9% year-over-year to $127.4 billion in Q1 2023. Net income was $3.2 billion for the period, compared with…

Amazon Plans to Cut Another 9,000 Jobs to Prepare for ‘Uncertainty’

Amazon is planning to eliminate 9,000 jobs over the coming weeks, mostly in its AWS, People Experience and Technology (PXT), Advertising and…

AWS, Meta, Microsoft Join Forces to Challenge Google’s Mapping Dominance

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft and mapping and location solution TomTom are the founding members of a new collaborative effort to…

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