Amazon billionaire, Jeff Bezos is going to space on Blue Origins first human flight this summer! Not only is Bezos heading to outer space, he will be accompanied by his brother, Mark. Here is everything we know so far!
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20 Highly Rated Amazon Beauty Products
Skip the in-store lineups and check out these highly rated Amazon beauty products. With thousands of positive reviews, these are the best bang for your buck products available.
Amazon Buys MGM for $8.5 Billion!
Amazon buys MGM for a whopping $8.5 billion or just pocket change to Jeff Bezos. Will Bezos be the new Bond?
Amazon Just Added Penn State To Campuses Invaded
Amazon is having a big impact on college campuses. On Tuesday, Amazon announced a partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, in which a new central clearing facility on the campus will be opened. The partnership […]
Amazon Is Cutting Out The Middleman With Secret Air Cargo Operation
Online retailer Amazon has long been working on taking shipping into its own hands so that the company can end its dependence on third party shipping companies such as UPS. The latest rumored shipping venture […]
Amazon Pulls Hoverboards After Safety Concerns Become Public
Online retail giant Amazon has started removing some of the “hoverboards” from its website, citing fears about fires resulting from exploding batteries. The hoverboards do not actually hover, but rather they roll around on the […]
Senate Passes Bill That Makes Internet Tax Exemptions Permanent
A bill has been approved by the United States House of Representatives that will permanently prevent states from collecting tax dollars on sales that are made over the internet. The bill, which is called HR […]
Amazon Close To Drone Package Delivery — As Long As The Yard Is Big Enough
If you want to be among the first Amazon customers to have their purchases delivered by a drone, you’ll have to have a lawn big enough to act as a drone landing strip. A new […]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Beats Elon Musk With Breakthrough Upright Rocket Landing
Not only is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ online retail company’s pre-Black Friday sales sky rocketing, his actual rocket ship has also achieved a major breakthrough by traveling into outer space and then re-entering earth, landing […]
Amazon’s Clever Plan To Make Black Friday Last All Week
For online retail giant Amazon and its customers, Black Friday started two weeks ago. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is noted as the first “official” day of Christmas shopping in the U.S. Customers of […]
Watch Out For That Unlocked Tablet On Amazon – It Could Have Malware
Many Android devices that are being sold on Amazon are reportedly preloaded with annoying advertising malware and hacked operating systems. Such claims have already been made by several users and security experts. Blackbox tablets from […]
Facebook, McDonald’s And Amazon Among Companies Scrutinized For Tax Evasion
Facebook, McDonald’s and Amazon are among 11 companies that will soon be questioned by European Union lawmakers for its low-tax deals. The internet retail giant is currently awaiting a decision on its fiscal agreement with […]
Google, Amazon And Facebook Control A Staggering 70% Of All Profit Made Online
Despite the Internet being hailed as the great equalizer of all things a study of the U.S. online market shows that just five companies are controlling the majority share of all online monetary transactions. The […]
Physical Amazon Bookshop To Open Its Doors In Seattle This November
Online retail giant Amazon is opening a brick and mortar bookshop in Seattle, calling it a “physical extension” of its business. While the move will most probably be welcomed by consumers, rival bookseller Waterstones is […]
Google Hopes To Deliver Packages Using Drones Starting In 2017
On Monday, a Google executive announced that the company expects to begin delivering packages to consumers by drones sometime in 2017. David Vos, the project lead for Google’s Project Wing told members of the public […]
Wal-Mart Takes Another Swing At Competitor Amazon With New Delivery Drones
Wal-Mart is joining Google and Amazon in the effort to make delivery-drones a reality. On Monday, the world’s largest retailer applied to United States regulators for permission to test its drones, which it hopes to […]
Amazon Suing 1,000 Users Who Posted Fake Product Reviews To Bump Sales
Amazon is stepping up its efforts to stop people from posting phony product reviews on its website. More than 1,000 people are being sued by the online store for allegedly misleading honest customers by posting […]
Walmart To Make Its Online Platform Code Public To Increase Competition For Amazon
Walmart is making its online shopping platform computing code open to everyone, in the hopes that more companies will develop their own e-commerce platforms instead of forcing companies to essentially rely on Amazon, which has […]
Google Works With NASA and FAA To Bring Delivery Drones Testing To The United States
Last year, Google announced its plans to get in the drone delivery game and joined the likes of Amazon in the quest to make such drones a reality. Google has been testing its Project Wing […]
Retail Giant Amazon Is Launching A Huge New Restaurant Delivery Service
Never content with its already dominant position in the ecommerce industry, Amazon is getting in the game of fresh food delivery. Services like Amazon Fresh and Amazon Restaurants are being introduced in markets around the […]
This Week’s Launch Of Apple TV Will Show A Strategy Shift From Streaming Into Gaming
It seems it isn’t just tech heavyweights like Google and Amazon that are making big pushes into the lucrative world of online gaming. According to reports over the weekend smartphone giant Apple will make gaming […]
Amazon Boss Denies New York Times Report On Toxic Work Culture
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has come out swinging in response to allegations in a New York Times article last weekend that claimed the “company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar […]
Pay TV Service HBO Courts Children With Sesame Street Deal
Sesame Street a long time stable of the free Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), will now be screened on premium cable network HBO, part of a push by the network to expand its audience. The network […]
Alibaba Hires Ex-Goldman Banker To Wage Global War On Amazon
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has hired ex-Goldman Sachs vice-chairman Michael Evans as its new president, charging him with leading its global strategy. Evans is a board member of the company and has known Alibaba founder […]
Amazon Shows Its Dead Serious About TV After Luring Hit Show Top Gear Away From Netflix
In a major coup for Amazon, it has finalized a three-year deal with the stars and producer of the BBC hit, Top Gear. Amazon Prime Video beat out other suitors, including ITV, Hulu and Netflix, […]
Amazon Reveals Comprehensive Plan For Prime Air Delivery Drones
In the latest development in Amazon’s plans to deliver packages by unmanned drones, it has announced a comprehensive proposal for turning its lofty dreams into reality. Amazon Prime Air unveiled its plan on Tuesday at […]
Walmart Launches Massive One Day Sale To Compete With Amazon’s Prime Day
Not one to be left out of the spotlight, retail giant Walmart announced that it will launch a rival sale to Amazon Inc.’s Prime Day that will be held on the same date and include […]
Retail Giant Amazon Celebrating Birthday With Sale “Bigger Than Black Friday”
If you thought Black Friday was huge you haven’t seen anything yet says Amazon. With Black Friday, the day where Internet shoppers go berserk chasing bargains on offer on-line, still more than four months away, […]
Amazon To Pay Authors Based On How Many Pages You Read
If the fabulously wealthy Taylor Swift thinks music royalties are too low you can imagine what authors will think of a new idea from eBook giant Amazon, which announced Monday a new pricing plan that […]
Amazon Uses ‘We’re From The Internet So Laws Don’t Apply’ Strategy To Avoid Drone Regulation
As time has passed since the founding of America the federal government increasingly regulates nearly all activity within the nation. While originally states were able to decide what is best for them, based on what […]