The Guardian
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
4 min · · Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi · Shared by 423, including John Nosta, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Semil, Mathew Ingram, Steve Faktor, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., massimo mantellini, Ste Davies, Mark Little, Christopher Lauer™, Anna Irrera, Matthias Lampe, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Azeem Azhar, Joanna J Bryson, Dean Anthony Gratton, Bjorn Larsen, Armin Wolf, Katja Evertz
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
TechCrunch
Amazon is now selling its cashierless store technology to other retailers
3 min · · Amazon on Monday announced it will now offer its cashierless store technology, called “Just Walk Out,” to other retailers. The technology uses a combination of cameras, sensors, computer vision… · Shared by 153, including Thomas Power, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan, WPMU DEV, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Recode
Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other U.S. company
3 min · · Tech companies claimed the top five spots again this year. · Shared by 144, including Werner Vogels, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, janfsauer, Thomas Power, yawniek 📯, Tobias Kopka, Eric Seufert, Stéphane Renault, Azeem Azhar, Jacob Jarnvall, Dominic Grzbielok, Daniel Lawniczak, Andreas Kubli, Bjorn Larsen, Esther Schindler, Joanna Strom, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Mihai M, Christian P. Stobbe
The Verge
How Amazon escapes liability for the riskiest products on its site
8 min · · Who’s at fault when something you buy on Amazon goes bad? · Shared by 137, including Neil Lee, Jill I-Am-Permanently-OFF-Bird-Site Duffy, Marsha Collier, Bjorn Larsen
TechCrunch
Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend
6 min · · Amazon has already been in the crosshairs of the White House when it comes to threats of antitrust investigations, and while some say this is simply Trumpian bluster that has a slim chance of going anywhere, some new numbers out from the researchers at eMarketer could prove to be a fan to the flame… · Shared by 88, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Gérard Godin, Gianluca Diegoli, Ron McIntyre, Benedict Evans, Rand Fishkin, Jean Decherf
blog.aboutamazon.com
Go behind the scenes as Amazon develops a new electric vehicle
3 min · · 100,000 electric delivery vans will save millions of metric tons of carbon per year. · Shared by 32, including Chris Messina, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Campaign
Amazon is 'biggest advertiser on Earth' as adspend hits $11bn
2 min · · Ecommerce giant accounts for nearly 2% of global ad expenditure. · Shared by 22, including Matt Navarra, Remo Uherek, Mark Hasebroock
TechCrunch
How Amazon took 50% of the e-commerce market and what it means for the rest of us
4 min · · Jun-Sheng Li Contributor Jun-Sheng (Jun) Li is an Executive in Residence at Canvas Ventures and was the former senior vice president of Walmart's global e-commerce supply chain. As SVP of Walmart’s… · Shared by 19, including Amber Mac, Bertrand Maltaverne, Scott Brinker
TechCrunch
Walmart partners with Shopify to expand its online marketplace
2 min · · Walmart this morning announced a new partnership with e-commerce shopping platform, Shopify, now used by over 1 million businesses. The deal will open Walmart’s Marketplace to Shopify’s small business… · Shared by 17, including Scott Brinker
Adweek
Amazon Is Testing an AI Chatbot That Generates Original Dialogue in Real Time
2 min · · The system may be a first for customer service. · Shared by 15, including Nige Roberts-Willson, Brian Roemmele
The Verge
Amazon has barred a million products for making false coronavirus claims
2 min · · As the price of face masks shoots up. · Shared by 12, including Josh Felser, Thomas Power
CNET
Amazon's Echo devices get redesign on the way to world domination
7 min · · An Alexa-powered microwave and wall clock were just the tip of the Alexa iceberg today. · Shared by 10
The Detroit News
Michigan EV startup Rivian to build electric vans for Amazon
3 min · · The automaker will build the vehicles in Illinois · Shared by 9, including Frank Gruber
The Verge
Apple’s cloud business is hugely dependent on Amazon
2 min · · The iPhone maker pays $30 million a month to use AWS, CNBC reports · Shared by 9, including Ralph Hutter