The Verge
Amazon is expanding its cashierless Go model into a full-blown grocery store
6 min · · Amazon Go Grocery is coming to Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, and it opens today. · Shared by 21, including #DigitalHealth Futurist 👨💻, Gerd Leonhard
Insider Business
Amazon is reportedly telling employees not to travel domestically or internationally until further notice due to COVID-19 concerns
2 min · · An Amazon executive reportedly told members of the company's largest team not to plan any work meetings requiring travel until at least April. · Shared by 26, including Balaji, KevinStrasser.com, Mathew Ingram
Vox
Walmart is quietly working on an Amazon Prime competitor called Walmart+
5 min · · Amazon Prime has devastated traditional retail. Walmart is about to fight back. · Shared by 24, including John Nosta, Jeremiah Owyang
GeekWire
Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines
7 min · · Amazon Go is going full grocery. Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” store in Seattle on… · Shared by 48, including John Nosta, Carla Gentry 🎶, Jonathan Kogan, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, MΛRC VIDΛL, Jeremiah Owyang
VentureBeat
Amazon tests AI-powered customer support agents on Amazon.com
2 min · · In a blog post, Amazon revealed that it's testing customer service agents powered by AI and machine learning for Amazon.com customers. · Shared by 57, including Ronald van Loon, LARRY ELKAN, Thomas Power, Marsha Collier, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jonathan Kogan, Terence Mills
BBC News (World)
Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine
19+ min · · Leo Kelion investigates the rise of Amazon and its huge data-gathering operation · Shared by 208, including Abel Caballero Díaz, sircharlsxavier, luis antónio santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Andreas Staub, Amber Mac, Tom Connor, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jonathan Kogan, Mark Anderson, Katja Evertz
TechRadar
AWS: Your complete guide to Amazon Web Services & features
14+ min · · Learn everything there is to know about Amazon Web Services · Shared by 19, including Matthias Lampe
VICE
In Letter to Jeff Bezos, Mom Says Alexa Has Ruined Her 6-Year-Old's Life
· She claims that her daughter, whose name is Alexa, has been constantly bullied and "treated like a servant" by other kids. · Shared by 23, including SwiftOnSecurity
The Guardian
'They know us better than we know ourselves': how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading
4 min · · Amazon knows more than just what books I’ve read and when – it knows which parts of them I liked the most · Shared by 60, including Esther Schindler, Ste Davies, henrik
amazondating.co
Amazon Dating
4 min · · Hot Singles Near You starting at $4.99 with Prime delivery. · Shared by 202, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Stever Robbins @stever@newsie.social, Helmi, Hugh Howey, danabramov.bsky.social, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Scott Galloway, Jeff Atwood, Lauren Holliday, Hüseyin Erkmen, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Goldie Chan 💚, Anthony Hamelle, string 🇦🇺🍗, Lauren Monitz ✈️
CNBC
This map shows how Amazon's warehouses are rapidly expanding across the country
1 min · · Within the last two decades, Amazon fulfillment centers have popped up in almost every corner of the U.S., as the company pushes to bring items closer to customers to enable faster deliveries. · Shared by 14, including Ajit Pai, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Marsha Collier
Rolling Stone
Has Amazon Already Figured Out the Future of the Music Streaming Business?
4 min · · In order to grow, streaming services may need to offer customers more, better, and cheaper subscription options — something Amazon is already doing · Shared by 74, including Bas Grasmayer, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
CNBC
Amazon tells users to uninstall a product that PayPal just paid $4 billion for
2 min · · Honey works through a browser extension known as a "plug-in" that automatically searches for discounts as customers shop on sites like Amazon. A month after PayPal bought it, Amazon is warning users… · Shared by 24, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, LARRY ELKAN, Shelly Kramer, John Koetsier, Marsha Collier
Vox
Google and Amazon are now in the oil business
1 min · · How new tech is boosting old energy. · Shared by 187, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Kat, Marsha Collier, Thomas Pleil, Tauno, Gengo 🦁, Matthias Lampe
Ars Technica
Oracle copied Amazon’s API—was that copyright infringement?
4 min · · Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry. · Shared by 26, including Chris Isak, @brianleroux@indieweb.social 💙, BrendanEich, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Forbes
Is This The Beginning Of Amazon’s Meltdown?
4 min · · More than one million businesses are ditching Amazon and selling online independently. This is the beginning of the biggest disruption in retail since Amazon’s inception. And there’s one little-known… · Shared by 17, including Marsha Collier