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Amazon Prime

Amazon experiencing shipping delays amid busy holiday season and shift to one-day delivery

Amazon is experiencing some shipping delays as the busy holiday season continues to heat up. As first reported by Recode,… Read More

Apple Prime? Tech giant takes big step toward subscriptions with new Apple Card-iPhone perk

Apple is inching closer to embracing a so-called “Apple Prime” subscription program that investors have speculated about for years, potentially… Read More

Prime dispute: Trucking company sues Amazon over logo on tech giant’s shipping fleet

Amazon’s Prime-branded trucks have drawn a legal challenge from a company with a familiar name. Prime Inc., a nearly 50-year-old… Read More

Amazon one-ups Walmart on one-day shipping, will offer 10M products via accelerated Prime program

Saying that every day is “Day 1” at Amazon might still be a popular mantra at the company, but today… Read More

Challenging Amazon, Walmart unveils one-day delivery on more than 200k items

Amazon put the retail world on notice when it announced plans to evolve its core Prime shipping time from two… Read More

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Amazon’s new Prime number: Why the tech giant is shifting its core shipping benefit to one-day delivery

Amazon’s first quarter earnings report last week presented analysts and investors with a financial mystery. The company’s profits were much… Read More

For the first time, Amazon’s own online sales make up less than half of its entire business

For the first time in Amazon’s history, the company’s first-party online retail sales represented less than half of its overall… Read More

Here’s what to know about Amazon’s push to make one-day shipping the new standard for Prime

Amazon forever altered the retail landscape when it introduced the Prime two-day shipping program 14 years ago. The Seattle company… Read More

How Amazon became a profit machine — and why it might not last

Amazon is on a record run of profits, crushing its previous high mark again with $3.6 billion in net income… Read More

Amazon to make one-day delivery the new standard for Prime

Amazon, which built its Prime subscription program on the promise of free two-day shipping, said it plans to shift that… Read More

Amazon developing a free, ad-supported video news app for Fire TV, report says

Fire TV users may soon be getting their news from Amazon. The company plans to debut a free app for… Read More

Amazon shipping costs hit record $9B in latest quarter, total nearly $28B for 2018

Amazon’s self-proclaimed record-breaking holiday season also came with record costs for shipping billions of items to customers’ doors. The e-commerce… Read More

New survey estimates Amazon Prime membership in the U.S. exceeds 100M

Last year, Amazon disclosed for the first time the number of Prime subscribers worldwide — 100 million. A new survey… Read More

Amazon reportedly balks at SEC request for more details about Prime memberships

For the first time earlier this year, Amazon announced that its popular Prime membership program had topped 100 million accounts worldwide.… Read More

Amazon adds to Business Prime benefits, including new credit card and faster shipping

Amazon is adding some new perks for its Business Prime program, headlined by a new credit card offered with American… Read More

TLDR: Paul Allen’s $100K donation to help GOP, Amazon briefly becomes $1T company, latest philanthropic efforts by Amazon

Today’s featured stories Tech titan Paul Allen gives $100,000 to GOP causes — and he’s not the only one Amazon… Read More

"More" is less as Amazon cuts back Prime video game benefits

Amazon ends 20% video game pre-order discounts for Prime members, cuts back Twitch Prime benefits

Amazon is changing the terms of its Prime benefits for video game pre-orders, replacing the 20 percent discount with a… Read More

Amazon movie theaters? Tech giant vying to acquire Landmark chain, report says

Amazon wants to acquire Landmark Theatres, expanding its presence in the movie business and adding another brick-and-mortar chain to its… Read More

Amazon Prime Air drone

Amazon Prime Air drone gets delivered to Smithsonian for museum display in 2021

Amazon’s drone delivery service is still in its experimental phase, but it’s already destined to become a part of American… Read More

Owning an Amazon delivery business: The risks, rewards and economic realities of the tech giant’s new program for entrepreneurs

Amazon has a new idea for anyone who has ever dreamed of owning and running a small business, but was… Read More

TLDR: Amazon’s blue crew delivery, Amazon agrees to acquire PillPack, Coinme installs 50th Bitcoin ATM

Today’s featured stories Inside Amazon’s Prime photo op: A secret bus ride, a spectacular Seattle view — but alas, no… Read More

Inside Amazon’s Prime photo op: A secret bus ride, a spectacular Seattle view — but alas, no drones

We got picked up in a van that looked like it should be taking us to a bachelor party. We… Read More

Amazon lands exclusive rights to stream 20 Premier League soccer matches next year

Amazon has secured exclusive rights to stream matches from the top soccer league in the U.K. starting next year, a… Read More

Amazon Prime members to get 10% off many Whole Foods items nationwide starting this summer

Amazon is taking the next step in its integration with Whole Foods Market, confirming that it will offer 10 percent… Read More

TLDR: Instagram in-app payments, testing out Prime Wardrobe, Paul Allen’s immersive reality project

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Prime Book Box

Amazon’s new ‘Prime Book Box’ subscription: 2-4 hardcover kids’ books every 1-3 months, $23/box

The company that popularized the wireless delivery of electronic books is trying something new with the old-fashioned delivery of physical… Read More

TLDR: U.S tech companies are hiring more foreign workers, Amazon reveals Prime membership numbers, Marvel at MoPOP

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Amazon reveals Prime number for the first time: 100M members globally and counting

Amazon Prime’s membership tops more than 100 million accounts worldwide, the company said this afternoon, revealing the number of subscribers… Read More

Whole Foods ending rewards programs as grocer teases new ties to Amazon Prime

Whole Foods Market will retire its various rewards programs and online accounts May 2, as it continues to integrate with… Read More

Amazon-owned Twitch offering collection of free games for Prime members

Twitch said it will offer a slate of free games monthly to members of Amazon Prime, adding another benefit to… Read More

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