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Prime Day

Amazon earnings preview: Wall Street looks for more cloud growth as AI spending hits a record

Amazon reports second-quarter results Thursday afternoon, with AWS growth expected to accelerate and capital spending on pace for a record $200 billion this year. The big question: How much patience do investors have left for the company’s bet on AI? Read More

Prime Day shows how AI is changing shopping, testing Amazon’s bet against ChatGPT and others

Adobe found that shoppers who reached retail sites through AI chatbots were 40% more likely to buy during Prime Day than those from search, email or social media — the first time AI-referred traffic converted best. Amazon has blocked rival shopping agents from its store while building its own assistant. Read More

Amazon Q2 earnings preview: AI bets, cloud growth, and tariff changes in the spotlight

Amazon’s infrastructure investments and cloud business will go under the microscope Thursday when the company reports second-quarter financial results —… Read More

Amazon stretches Prime Day to four days in July — and taps LeBron James to hype annual event

Amazon’s biggest shopping day is turning into more and more days as the e-commerce giant announced that its annual Prime… Read More

Amazon Prime package delivery

Amazon sets Prime Day record as U.S. e-commerce sales top $14 billion

Amazon said this week’s Prime Day was its biggest ever, setting a record for sales and items sold during the… Read More

Environmental groups target Amazon’s climate efforts with Prime Day protest at Seattle HQ

Environmental protesters in Seattle seized on Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday to once again call out the… Read More

Amazon Prime Day set for July 16-17, as annual sales event falls into predictable schedule

Amazon seems to have figured out a consistent approach to scheduling Amazon Prime Day, with the 10th installment in the… Read More

Amazon will put on another Prime Day event in October

Amazon announced Tuesday that it will hold a “Prime Big Deal Days” sales event this fall.

Large graffiti painted on street outside Amazon’s Seattle HQ targets company as ‘Prime polluter’

Story updated with comment from Amazon. Amazon and CEO Andy Jassy were the targets of a large graffiti message painted… Read More

Invite-only deals give Amazon Prime Day a new twist, with secretive selection process

Interested in a 75% discount on a 43-inch 4K Amazon Fire TV, or a 15% price cut on a Motorola… Read More

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on making AI chips, Prime Video spend, speeding up shipping

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy spoke with CNBC for a wide-ranging interview about AI, Prime Video, and more. Here were some… Read More

Amazon will hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11-12, adding invite-only deals and ‘Buy with Prime’ sites

Amazon will hold its 2023 Prime Day sales event on Tuesday, July 11, and Wednesday, July 12, the Seattle-based e-commerce… Read More

Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale, and the forces blowing up the traditional holiday shopping season

Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale, slated for Tuesday and Wednesday Oct. 11-12, is the company’s attempt to jump-start the holiday… Read More

Amazon sets two-day ‘Prime Early Access Sale’ for Oct. 11-12, hoping to spark early holiday shopping

Amazon confirmed that it will hold a new online shopping event Oct. 11-12, exclusive to Prime members — seeking to… Read More

What’s the deal with Prime Day? A reality check on Amazon’s big shopping event

Time was running out, and my fear of missing out was going up. With just a few hours left in… Read More

Forecast for Amazon Prime Day is cloudy with a chance of consumer caution

Economic uncertainty, inflation, and the lingering effects of the pandemic are tempering expectations for this year’s Prime Day, the annual… Read More

Podcast

Prime Day preview: Economic hangover from pandemic raises stakes for Amazon’s big event

Prime Day is almost here. Actually, it’s two days. But who’s counting? Well, Amazon sure is. Scheduled for June 21… Read More

Amazon’s ‘Prime Day Show’ will feature Billie Eilish, H.E.R. and Kid Cudi in streaming musical event

Amazon is bringing out more star power to promote this year’s Prime Day shopping event. The company announced Thursday that… Read More

Amazon Prime Day set for June 21-22; tech giant turns to actor Kristen Bell to help counter critics

Amazon confirmed Tuesday night that it will hold its annual Prime Day sales event on Monday June 21 and Tuesday… Read More

Amazon says third-party merchants sold $3.5B of goods during Prime Day amid antitrust scrutiny

Amazon said Thursday that this year’s Prime Day provided the biggest boon to third-party sellers in the sales event’s six-year… Read More

Indie booksellers feeling ‘Boxed Out’ by Amazon respond with campaign targeting tech giant

Independent bookstores across the country put out the unwelcome mat for Amazon and the tech giant’s Prime Day shopping extravaganza… Read More

Amazon’s first-ever fall Prime Day brings new challenges in the midst of a tumultuous year

Amazon and its army of logistics workers are bracing for the first-ever fall Prime Day starting Tuesday, as the extraordinary… Read More

Amazon Prime Day set for Oct. 13-14 after pandemic-related delay

Amazon’s annual shopping extravaganza will take place Oct. 13-14, the company announced late Sunday. The event was delayed this year… Read More

Amazon reportedly postponing Prime Day until October

Amazon is once again postponing Prime Day, the company’s annual sales event, due to the coronavirus. Amazon informed sellers of… Read More

Amazon reportedly postponing Prime Day sales event to fall

Amazon plans to move its annual Prime Day sales event from summer to fall due to disruptions caused by the… Read More

Amazon Prime Day ignites protests over working conditions, as company accuses unions of ‘conjuring misinformation’

Last year, Amazon Prime Day became the biggest shopping event in the company’s history. Fresh off that success, Amazon decided… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up: The death of the Xbox, Amazon Prime Day 2019 deals, and Samsung Galaxy Note 10 rumors

On this week’s Geared Up, we talk about the upcoming Amazon Prime Day, celebrating Amazon’s 25th anniversary. I bring you… Read More

Taylor Swift to headline streamed Amazon Prime Day concert with Dua Lipa, SZA, Becky G

If you’re an Amazon Prime member and you like Taylor Swift, there’s some good news. As part of its “Prime… Read More

Prime Day is back: Amazon’s 5th annual shopping extravaganza will start July 15 and last 48 hours

Amazon’s self-made holiday is returning for the fifth consecutive year. Prime Day is back and will last a record 48… Read More

Report: Amazon underestimated traffic demands for Prime Day, scrambled to add servers in hopes of fixing widespread glitches

Even though it has the world’s leading cloud-computing service within the corporate family, Amazon engineers have to configure its retail… Read More

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