It’s no April fool- Amazon has launched ‘Dash Buttons’- a set a small, branded devices that let customers reorder common household products such as washing powder and razor blades at the push of a button.
Amazon has been awarded an experimental airworthiness certificate to use drones, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
Amazon.com has acquired 2lemetry, a startup with a system for sending, receiving, and analyzing data from Internet-connected devices.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is investing $200m in SnapChat, valuing the photo-messaging app at a whopping $15bn.
Google has followed in the footsteps of Amazon, Apple and eBay to open a physical retail store in London.
In a case of ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’, Amazon has opened an online store on Alibaba’s Tmall site this week.
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Google has bought the .app domain name for $25m, using it as “a domain space for application developers”.
Amazon’s plans for drone deliveries have suffered a setback after new federal rules will not allow Prime Air to operate in the US.
Alibaba is testing delivering online orders via drones for its Taobao service with a one-off, three day campaign in China.