Amazon Intros Video Calling Service

A new video and phone conference service from Amazon aims to compete with the likes of Microsoft’s Skype for Business. Amazon Web Services unveiled its new Amazon Chime service today to provide unified communications tools to enable companies to host or join meetings as well as chat online, while sharing content and screens across their devices.

Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon come together to pick on GST

The stalwarts of Indian e-commerce – Flipkart’s Sachin Bansal and Snapdeal’s Kunal Bahl – along with Amazon India’s Amit Agarwal, joined hands on Thursday to pick on the Tax Collection at Source clause in the Goods and Services Tax. The three men were speaking at the E-commerce industry in India’s press meet organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry .

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‘s stock had its “hold” rating restated by SunTrust Banks, Inc. in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday. A number of other equities analysts have also recently commented on the stock.

Apple TV Could Still Be a Major Opportunity, if Apple Can Execute

The tech giant’s hiring of a new exec from Amazon comes as pay-TV streaming apps and a burgeoning smart home market spell new opportunities. The TV has long been Apple’s white whale, a giant digital content and communications platform that has captured its imagination for at least a decade, but one which it has only established a modest presence for through a line of streaming set-top boxes.

Amazon to Move Prime Air Hub to Cincinnati

When Amazon announced last year that it was entering directly into the air logistics business with the launch of Prime Air, the airfreight world knew that it had to prepare for bold moves by a deep-pocketed company with a passion for innovation. Now, the Seattle-based online retail giant has announced the shift of its current air hub from Wilmington Airpark in Ohio to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport this spring, hinting at a possibly vast expansion of Amazon’s e-commerce air service.

Inside Amazon’s robot-run supermarket that needs just 3 human workers 0:0

That’s what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appears to be thinking, as his Seattle-based web giant has contemplated a two-story, automated grocery store in which a staff of robots on the floor upstairs grabs and bags items for shoppers below. The ground level of the futuristic prototype – a supermarket-sized version of its recently unveiled “Amazon Go” convenience store , with a bigger layout that could span anywhere between 10,000 and 40,000 square feet – would be devoted to goods that shoppers typically like to touch, sources briefed on the plans told The Post.

Will Wal-Mart’s New Shipping Plan Punish Amazon?

With Wal-Mart continuing to struggle to gain market share from Amazon in the e-commerce side of its business, it continues to try different things out to see if they work, with the latest being the shelving of its “Shipping Pass” program and the introduction of a two-day plan that requires no subscription, and includes a minimum order of $35.00. Shipping Pass was an annual membership program costing consumers $49.00, which also included a two-day shipping mechanism in the deal, which has become the retail industry baseline.

Amazon Shares Dip 3% on Revenue Miss

Fourth-quarter net sales of $3.54 billion fell short of analysts’ estimates but net income rose 55% to $749 million. Amazon shares dropped more than 3% on Friday as a 55% increase in fourth-quarter profit couldn’t offset lower-than-expected revenue growth.

Amazon increasingly wants to be its own deliveryman

In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, file photo, Amazon.com boxes are shown stacked near a Boeing 767 Amazon “Prime Air” cargo plane on display in a Boeing hangar in Seattle. Amazon’s announcement on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, of a new air cargo hub in Kentucky is the latest way the e-commerce retailer is dipping its toe, or perhaps whole foot, into building out its shipping and logistics unit.

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Other equities analysts also recently issued research reports about the company. Canaccord Genuity restated a buy rating and issued a $825.00 price objective on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Tuesday, October 4th.

Amazon explores legal options against Trump’s immigration ban

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have criticized President Trump’s executive order to temporarily ban citizens and refugees from seven Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos promises to fight Trump’s immigration ban – CNET

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO and founder, said his company is going into action to counter President Trump’s controversial immigration order , which temporarily blocked refugees and citizens of seven countries from entering the US. In an email to employees Monday, Bezos said Amazon is working on a number of efforts, including exploring legislative measures and drafting a declaration of support for Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s lawsuit against the immigration order .

Job loss can be a positive sign that the economy is growing

When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like “tombstones” across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers and entire malls reduced to rubble? He promises protection to prevent foreigners from destroying manufacturing jobs by exporting to America things that Americans want to import. Does he know that one American company might be destroying more American jobs than China is? And that this supposed destruction is beneficial? The company is Amazon , created by Jeff Bezos.

Smaller states rejoice as Amazon finally collects sales tax

Many online shoppers in the United States have for years had to pay state sales taxes whenever they buy goods from Amazon. But the Seattle e-commerce giant has dragged its feet on collecting sales taxes in small and sparsely populated states where it doesn’t have any distribution centers or corporate offices.

Content Insider #504 – Taking Flight

“Hey, don’t look at me. I stopped dreaming a long time ago” – Frank Riley, “Batteries Not Included,” Universal Studios, 1987 At CES, a whole new flock of fly-high, fly-fast, fly-bad drones were introduced and now the category is suddenly destined to be the next monstrous consumer category.

George F. Will: Protectionism does not protect American workers

When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like “tombstones” across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers and entire malls reduced to rubble? He promises “protection” to prevent foreigners from “destroying” manufacturing jobs by exporting to America things that Americans want to import. Does he know that one American company might be “destroying” more American jobs than China is? And that this supposed destruction is beneficial? The company is Amazon , created by Jeff Bezos.

Microsoft Asserts Clients’ Rights in Fbi E-Mail Searches Fight

Microsoft Corp.’s effort to halt the FBI’s so-called sneak-and-peek searches of e-mails may ride on whether it’s allowed to defend its customers’ constitutional rights. The judge who will decide whether the case can go ahead told the company’s lawyers to be ready in court Monday to address earlier rulings that undercut their arguments.

Amazon launches Aussie jobs bonanza

Amazon is setting up shop Down Under, with local warehouses set to open in September, allowing customers to get items delivered in lightening speed. The company is officially on a hiring spree, with more than 100 roles advertised in IT, marketing, sales and HR – and that’s just the beginning.

How Amazon.com Is Becoming the Kind of Retailer It Hurt

In what seems like an ironic twist, Amazon.com is setting up bricks-and-mortar stores, but the company has some high-tech tricks up its sleeve that could transform the shopping experience. As more and more bricks-and-mortar stores beef up their online platforms, Amazon.com is rerouting its online audience to the very physical market it once disrupted .

Amazon adds more fulfillment

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