Prime: Amazon’s New Research Lab
Prime members are Amazon's avant-garde, coming to everything a little bit earlier — including the company's newest experiments with its website.
View ArticleData | How Your Favorite Tech Companies Make Money
After noticing the popularity of a Google search for “how does [company] make money,” search engine optimization firm SEER Interactive and design firm O3 World decided to make an interactive...
View ArticleDigital Content | Amazon Isn’t Really in the Netflix Business
Netflix stock has been on a tear today, up more than 11 percent to almost $74 as the markets readied to close. The bump, even as the Nasdaq traded ever so slightly down, was based primarily on what...
View ArticleRetail | Amazon Taunts Retailers, Netflix With $8-Per-Month Prime Plan
Only a company as sprawling and powerful as Amazon could take a popular service, make it more expensive, and still reasonably expect that competitors will cringe at the move.
View ArticleRetail | Why Amazon Prime Could Soon Cost You Next to Nothing
A new report says Amazon makes so much money off Prime customers that the company could drop the annual fee by dozens of dollars and still come out ahead.
View ArticleGroceries Could Be Amazon’s Next Killer App — If It Can Solve the Math
If Amazon gets groceries right, the implications are far greater than another convenient option for getting your daily bread. But the logistics of grocery delivery are dizzyingly complex.
View ArticleAmazon Prime Was Too Good to Be True After All
Amazon really has no choice but to raise the price of its "free" two-day shipping program. The irony is that Amazon Prime has worked out just like Amazon wanted it to.
View ArticleWhy Amazon’s Next Conquest Will Be Your Television
Amazon started as an online bookseller and transformed the entire publishing industry. Now it's assembling the pieces it needs to do the same to an even bigger medium: television.
View ArticleHow Amazon Could Ease the Pain of a Pricier Prime
Amazon says the price of Prime, its unlimited two-day shipping plus streaming video service, probably has to go up. Not everyone is happy about it, which is why Amazon might need to find ways to...
View ArticleAmazon Hikes the Price of Prime to Keep Two-Day Shipping Alive
For nearly a decade, Amazon customers enjoyed unlimited two-day shipping for $79 per year. But the cost of providing that instant gratification became too much for Amazon to bear.
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