Image source: Amazon.com. When you’re Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and you want more Black Fridays, you celebrate Cyber Monday. And when you’re Amazon and you want more Cyber Mondays… you create your own holiday. If this sounds like a potential flop, think again. Amazon’s “Prime Day” on Monday was Amazon’s biggest day ever. Here are the impressive […]
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Siri is in for a big upgrade with iOS 10. App makers will finally be able to tap into Apple’s voice-powered personal assistant, at least for a select category of apps. If Apple and developers have their way, you’ll soon search your photos, hail cars and send your friends money via Siri. The future looks
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Enlarge Image Hey Alexa, go sit in a corner and think about what you’ve done. Amanda Kooser/CNET Alexa and I had a little quarrel Tuesday night. It wasn’t our usual tiff where I ask her to turn off an alarm and she ignores me and then we both laugh about it later. Tuesday’s record-breaking Prime
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Amazon knows better than any retailer that sometimes a groundbreaking idea just needs to get its feet under itself before really taking off. It looks like that was the steady hand behind Prime Day’s start back in 2015 – and its phenomenal sophomore showing in 2016. Amazon released figures Wednesday (July 13) on its Prime
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Remember when bots were all the rage? Waaaaaaaaay back in April, Facebook announced that it would begin supporting bots within its Messenger chat app, and CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and other publishers — along with lots of retailers and other #brands — launched bots on the platform. Though CNN said users were spending an
Creating a new mobile app used to begin with a simple question: iOS or Android? And if you believe the hype about chatbots (intelligent helpers that users can summon via instant message), the decision is about to get much more complicated. Tech companies like Facebook, Microsoft, and Slack are all opening up bot platforms within
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Shutterstock photo Once again, Amazon’s AMZN dominance of the e-commerce world was on full display with its annual Prime Day, an exclusive “shopping holiday” designed to provide Prime customers with limited-time-only offers. Amazon uses the day both as a celebration for its existing Prime customers and as a reminder that if you don’t yet pay
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Once again, Amazon’s (AMZN – Analyst Report) dominance of the e-commerce world was on full display with its annual Prime Day, an exclusive “shopping holiday” designed to provide Prime customers with limited-time-only offers. Amazon uses the day both as a celebration for its existing Prime customers and as a reminder that if you don’t yet
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Amazon has acquired three domain names from the .Club registry, matching generic brands the company operates. Amazon acquired Prime.Club, Alexa.Club, and Fire.Club. All three of these domain names were acquired for an undisclosed amount, and Amazon used its corporate registrar for the purchase. Today is “Prime Day,” at Amazon. The company is offering special deals
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