WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) and Amazon announced Tuesday the launch of a joint operation to prevent counterfeit goods from entering the U.S. and help protect American consumers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and DHL are also supporting the operation. “The IPR Center plays a critical
SEATTLE — The holidays are typically overwhelming—between shopping for gifts, preparing family meals, and getting the house ready for guests — but for many, this season may look a little different. Whether customers’ plans have changed or not, Amazon still wants to keep this holiday season special and help make sure those gifting moments stay
Ever since its launch as an online bookstore 25 years ago, Amazon has ignored traditional economics as it solves customer challenges in new ways — raising expectations and forcing competitors to do better in the process. Over the past few years, Amazon has ramped up the number of experiments, acquisitions and offerings across the health
SEATTLE — Amazon is rolling out two new pharmacy offerings to help customers conveniently purchase their prescription medications. Amazon Pharmacy, a new store on Amazon, allows customers to complete an entire pharmacy transaction on their desktop or mobile device through the Amazon App. The company is also offering special discounts to Prime members. Using a
LONDON — Online retail giant Amazon is among companies that have witnessed tremendous growth in 2020, mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic. The growth has seen the platform attract increased traffic, competing with major players from other industries. Recent data presented by Buy Shares indicates that Amazon.com was the fifth most visited website globally in September
SEATTLE — Amazon announced that its annual Prime Day event is back in time for the holidays on October 13-14. The two-day shopping event delivers Prime members incredible savings and deep discounts on over one million deals across every category. Prime Day kicks off at midnight PT on Tuesday, October 13 and runs through Wednesday,
SEATTLE — Amazon has introduced Climate Pledge Friendly, an initiative designed to make it easier for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products. With this new program, customers will now see the Climate Pledge Friendly label when searching for more than 25,000 products to signify that the products have one or more of
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Amazon opened a new grocery store concept on Thursday, expanding beyond its Whole Foods chain as it seeks to become a major food retailer. “Today we’re announcing the Amazon Fresh grocery store—a new grocery store designed from the ground up to offer a seamless grocery shopping experience, whether customers are shopping
SEATTLE — Amazon has introduced Amazon Halo, a new service dedicated to helping customers improve their individual health and wellness. Amazon Halo combines a suite of AI-powered health features that provide actionable insights into overall wellness via the new Amazon Halo app with the Amazon Halo Band, which uses multiple advanced sensors to provide the
SEATTLE — Jeff Wilke, chief executive of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, plans to retire from the company in early 2021. He will be succeeded by Dave Clark, who has served as senior vice president of worldwide operations at Amazon. The move was announced Friday morning in an email by Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff
SEATTLE — Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced Wednesday that Moderna has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, as well as its standard for analytics and machine learning workloads. Leveraging its mRNA platform and manufacturing facility with the AWS-powered research engine, Moderna delivered the first clinical batch of its vaccine candidate (mRNA-1273)
NEW YORK — Recent data gathered by Learnbonds.com indicates that online retail giant Amazon had 4.06 billion unique visitors in March. According to the data, this figure was more compared to combined visitors for the other five leading online stores. The data shows that eBay, Apple, Walmart, Rakuten, Samsung.com, and Apple.com had cumulative visitors of 3.85
SEATTLE — Amazon announced this week that it is prioritizing shipments of medical supplies and household staples that come into its warehouses to help it respond to massive consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic. The online retailer reported to its suppliers that it will not accept any shipments of non-essential consumer goods until April 5.
SEATTLE — Amazon upsized its Amazon Go checkout-free store concept on Tuesday with the opening of its first Amazon Go Grocery store, which measures 10,400 square feet and carries about 5,000 products, including perishables like fresh meat and produce, and household items like paper towels. The new store is more than four times the size