Microsoft unveils an AI “super factory”, a new class of hubs for AI training, in Atlanta, as part of its plan to double its data center footprint over two years
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A profile of Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who now oversees a new team of thousands to develop AI products for an Alexa upgrade and other businesses
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Sources: Temu and Shein have supplanted Walmart and Target as focal points in internal Amazon meetings related to retail, as Amazon explores new promo campaigns
from Amazon to Walmart to Wawa Lionel Lim / Fortune : Temu-owner PDD spooked China's e-commerce giants last year with its low prices. Now the upstart has almost doubled its annual profits X: Sebastian...
Amazon restarts Amazon Shipping, its UPS and FedEx competitor that handles packages from other websites, after pausing the US service earlier in the pandemic
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Amazon is removing or reducing packaging to speed up deliveries, cut costs, and meet climate goals, amid concerns that visible products could lead to issues
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After Amazon workers in Staten Island voted to unionize in April, similar movements at other US warehouses fizzled out, stymied by turnover and company efforts
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Amazon rolls out Inspire, a TikTok-like feed in its app that lets customers “like” and buy products, to select customers in the US
The tech giant joins Facebook, Google in seeking to capitalize on popularity of short-form video format — Why Amazon Sometimes Unveils Products You Can't Actually Buy Tweets: @frankcatalano , @sebas...
Amazon plans to host two Prime shopping events in a year for the first time, the second one set for Q4 2022, according to a notice sent to third-party merchants
The Amazon Prime Day dates have been revealed to be July 12 and July 13 … The Signal : Surat's diamonds lost in war Jay Peters / The Verge : Amazon is reportedly hosting a second major Prime-exclusive...
Insider Intelligence: while Amazon has 39% share of US e-commerce market, it grew by just 0.2% in 2021 and so far in 2022, the slowest rate in years
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Data shows the percentage share of e-commerce in total US retail sales, which is still up from pre-pandemic levels, has started to drop as in-store sales rise
E-commerce retailers that rode a surge of online purchases in 2020 are now grappling with the fact that some customers have returned to stores Tweets: @htsfhickey , @kjlabuz , @stevenpdennis , @iiiits...