Amazon has cut an undisclosed number of jobs in its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service, though the company insists it has no intention of retreating from the crowded culinary courier… Read More
Amazon is increasing the monthly price option for Prime from $10.99 to $12.99 as it continues to expand the reach and benefits of the popular fast-shipping program. Amazon said the… Read More
Amazon said it shipped more than 5 billion items through its quick-delivery Prime program, while more people joined the $99-per-year service worldwide than any previous year. Amazon doesn’t always give… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant may have reached critical mass during the 2017 holiday shopping season, judging from a new report from the e-commerce giant. In its first post-holiday recap this… Read More
Amazon is expanding its popular Prime fast-shipping program to the business world. Today the retail giant announced Business Prime Shipping, which allows businesses of all sizes to sign up for… Read More
Amazon entered Brazil five years ago, but ever since it has focused its efforts on its original wheelhouse: books. But now Amazon is expanding its online retail presence in the… Read More
A new study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimates that Amazon’s Prime membership program is now in more than 90 million U.S. households, up 38 percent from this time a… Read More
Amazon is testing an expansion of its delivery operations, including overseeing pickup and delivery of items from third-party seller warehouses to customers, possibly taking over some of the functions of… Read More
Amazon’s foray into major sports streaming kicked off tonight with a Thursday Night Football matchup between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers — and after initial buffering issues, the… Read More
Google and Walmart are teaming up to take on mutual e-commerce rival Amazon. Starting in late September, customers will be able to make Walmart purchases through Google Express, an online marketplace… Read More
Amazon has taken a step that could expand the customer base for its popular Prime program even further, starting a discount option for people on government assistance. The discounted membership will… Read More
Flexe, a Seattle startup that offers a marketplace for warehouse space, announced Thursday a new next-day delivery service, which the company said would give brands the ability to reach 98 percent… Read More
As far as Amazon Prime benefits go, this one is a show-stopper. Amazon is launching a new concert series called Prime Live Events that will take place in London between May and… Read More
Amazon has dropped the threshold for free shipping for non-Prime members to orders of $25 or more, down from a $35 minimum. Amazon made the change quietly, updating a support page… Read More
A new study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimates that Amazon Prime membership doubled in the last two years to more than 80 million people in the U.S. That figure represents… Read More
Amazon has reached a deal with the NFL to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games during the upcoming season for a reported $50 million, outbidding Google, Twitter and Facebook, according to reports… Read More
Amazon has launched Prime in Mexico, expanding its subscription membership service to cover all of North America. The membership will immediately include most of the benefits available in the United States, including… Read More
If you’re an eSports skeptic, hold onto your hats: the NBA announced this week that it is adding eSports teams to every NBA franchise in the country, in partnership with Take-Two,… Read More
The amount of money that Amazon lost on shipping — a.k.a. the net cost of landing all those brown boxes on your doorstep in record time — reached an all-time high of nearly… Read More
If you live in a city, chances are you’ve had packages delivered hours after you ordered them online. Same-day or next-day shipping is popular for obvious reasons and Amazon’s estimated… Read More
Amazon just came out with another reason to get Prime: a new credit card that will let members get 5 percent cash back on all Amazon purchases. The new card,… Read More
Amazon has launched a new marketplace service in India that lets people sell their used items through the online retail giant’s platform. Not only is it providing the marketplace, Amazon is also… Read More
The rise and expansion of Amazon Prime, the continued dominance of Amazon Web Services, the surprise emergence of Amazon Alexa, the first official Prime Air drones deliveries, an Amazon Boeing cargo… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we go behind-the-scenes to analyze two of the biggest scoops of the week. First, Amazon has started charging non-Prime members higher prices in… Read More
Amazon has expanded its Prime subscription program to China in a move to compete with the country’s dominant e-commerce player Alibaba. Information on Prime in China first appeared on Amazon’s China website… Read More
When Amazon introduced a monthly subscription plan for its Prime program as an alternative to the $99 annual fee earlier this year, the retail giant bet that the new option would open Prime up… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said earlier this year that the company’s goal is to make the benefits of its $99/year Amazon Prime program so numerous and valuable that it’s irresponsible not to be a… Read More
A lot of Twitch fans are about to become Amazon Prime members. Amazon and its live streaming company Twitch Friday announced Twitch Prime, a new bundle of Amazon Prime benefits specifically… Read More
[Update, Saturday afternoon: After this story was published, an Amazon spokesperson contacted GeekWire to add to the company’s previous statement: “We are planning to bring this feature to Fire tablets in… Read More
Amazon wants to stream sports with worldwide followings such as soccer, tennis, rugby, golf and auto-racing, in a move that could help the online retail giant grow its appeal abroad, according to a… Read More