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| Jan 16, 2020 | Amazon’s fresh $1B investment in India is not a big favor, says India trade minister | India’s trade minister isn’t impressed with Amazon’s new $1 billion investment in the country.
A day after Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos announced that his company is pumping in an additional $1 billion into its India operations, making... |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Amazon Prime gets HBO and Cinemax subscriptions for $15 and $10 per month | The great cord-cutting revolution continues today with the news that HBO and Cinemax are now available to Amazon Prime subscribers for $15 and $10 per month, respectively.
The news comes almost a year after Amazon Video opened to third-part... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | SeventySix Capital bets on the Internet of Things | The Internet of Things (IoT) may still be a hazy concept in the public’s eye, but Radnor-based venture firm SeventySix Capital is making its latest bet on an Israeli IoT company called Kwik.
Remember the Amazon Dash button? That thing that ... |
| Apr 13, 2016 | Walmart expands its curbside grocery pickup service in the US | While Amazon, Google and a number of startups like Instacart, Postmates, Shipt and others are focused on quick, same-day deliveries of groceries and household items, Walmart has been taking a different approach. It has instead tapped into i... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | Google Launches Fresh-Grocery Delivery Service In San Francisco And Los Angeles | Watch out Instacart and Amazon Fresh, Google is going head-to-head against fresh-grocery delivery startups and services with a service expansion. Google Express, which has been around for a while, is now expanding to fresh-grocery deliverie... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Hunger Games: How “Culinary Currency” is reshaping the food industry | This sponsored post is produced in association with Panasonic Lab 1.0.
Millennials are hungry — not just for inspired meals, but for the connection they represent, says Eve Turow, author of A Taste of Generation Yum. And while half of the 8... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Hiku’s New Connected Grocery Scanner Lets You Order Groceries From Walmart And Peapod | Amazon may be leading the internet-of-things market when it comes to push-button ordering via hardware devices like its Dash grocery scanner and Dash buttons, but it’s not without its competition. Today, a company called hiku announced the ... |
| Sep 28, 2015 | Walmart Doubles Down On Online Grocery Shopping With Curbside Pickup | Walmart today is announcing an expansion of its online grocery shopping service with launches in eight additional markets, as well as plans for a continued rollout to several more regions in the months ahead. The news comes at a time when a... |
| Sep 25, 2015 | 7 cool projects we saw at Nexus Maximus | In the center of a room filled with hundreds of people, one man stands holding a Roman centurion helmet and a bell. Every seven minutes the man dons the helmet and rings that bell. “Judges,” calls a voice in the distance. “That’s your cue.”... |
| Aug 12, 2015 | ‘Amazon launches its grocery service AmazonFresh in the UK’ | Amazon has taken over the lease on a warehouse in London that was previously used by Tesco. This fuels rumors that the American ecommerce giant is planning the launch of AmazonFresh in the United Kingdom.
Amazon will lease a warehouse that’... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | You Can Now Get Free Shipping On Amazon For Small Items Without A Minimum Order | Laura Rosenfeld, Tech Times 02 June 2015, 05:06 pm
How many times have you bought that one extra cat coin purse just to put your order over the edge and make the minimum order for free shipping on Amazon?
Let's be real. Probably too many ti... |
| May 29, 2015 | 6 Ways Technology Helps Your Work-Life Balance | A fatter incentive or an extra hour of playtime with your kid? Quicker growth up the corporate ladder or time spent unwinding with friends at a bar? Overtime or vacation time? These are daily conundrums every employed individual has to deal... |
| May 19, 2015 | How GrubHub is lowering the barrier to entry for Brooklyn’s culinary entrepreneurs | It takes more than chops in the kitchen to launch a new restaurant. A furbished dining area, wait staff and the ever-present reality of property taxes all land on the list of concerns for an aspiring restaurateur.
GrubHub sees big business ... |
| May 8, 2015 | Mother’s Day gifts on demand | Busy or lazy, whatever the case, you still have time to shop for mom. And you don’t need to leave the house to do it, let alone the couch.
San Diego’s expanding on-demand app economy means locals have a handful of bring-it-to-me gift soluti... |
| Apr 6, 2015 | Amazon’s dashing vision of the future of shopping: Think fast, Think less, Buy more | Amazon’s announcement for its new vision of shopping, the Dash Button, was so bizarre, that people thought it was an early April Fool’s joke. The premise is simple. Push a button on a small gadget labelled “Tide” (a US washing powder), conv... |
| Mar 31, 2015 | Amazon launches a product so gimmicky we thought it was an April Fools’ joke | Around April 1, it’s hard to know what’s a joke and what isn’t.
Today Amazon announced the launch of a physical button that will let consumers reorder products they run out of in real time. Called Dash Button, it can be programmed to automa... |
| Dec 11, 2014 | Amazon’s Connected Speaker Echo Now Has An iOS App | When Amazon launched its $199 connected speaker Amazon Echo last month, which plays music, news, radio and more as well as respond to commands and queries via its included virtual assistant technology, it also came with a dedicated mobile a... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | Amazon Has Launched A GrubHub Rival For Food Takeout & Delivery | Back in June, we wrote about how Amazon was preparing to take on companies like Seamless, Grubhub and DeliveryHero with a restaurant takeout and delivery service that would sit within its Amazon Local app and website. Now that service is li... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | Point and click seafood: E-commerce exploding | Seafood retailers not on board the e-commerce train need to hop on – and quickly. They are missing a potentially very lucrative piece of the business.
Led by growth in grocery delivery services such as AmazonFresh and Walmart To Go, total U... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Ex-Amazon product manager launches Lish as food delivery bubble expands | There’s something brewing at the intersection of food delivery and technology. In the past few years, we’ve seen several new startups help bring lunch and dinner to our doorsteps — and now there’s yet another company launching in Seattle do... |
| Jul 10, 2014 | Ex-Amazon engineers raise $2.7M for lunch delivery startup Peachd from Maveron, Vulcan and Madrona | A new startup in Seattle just raised $2.75 million from some of the region’s top venture capital firms to do something rather simple: Deliver lunch.
Peachd is one of many food delivery companies sprouting up around the nation and Seattle, b... |
| Jun 25, 2014 | Amazon Is Quietly Launching A Local Takeout Service To Rival Seamless And DeliveryHero | Amazon has been tipped to launch a local services marketplace this year to rival the likes of Thumbtack, Angie’s List and Yelp. Now one part of that effort looks like it’s about to go live: the company is now rolling out a food takeout serv... |
| Jun 17, 2014 | What To Expect From Amazon’s New 3D Device And Its “New Type Of Sensor” | Amazon, inarguably the zaniest tech company in the heavyweight class, is widely expected to release its very own smartphone this week. The Seattle-based company teased its new product—a physical device this time and not a service—with a mys... |
| Jun 6, 2014 | Hiku’s Connected Grocery Scanner Is An “Amazon Dash” For The Rest Of Us | In April, Amazon announced it would begin testing a new connected hardware device called the “Amazon Dash,” which lets you order groceries from AmazonFresh by either scanning a product barcode or speaking a product name into the device. But... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Amazon wants to ship you small-sized grocery items … in bulk | Amazon has become many people’s preferred shopping destination for, well, many things, and now it’s coming up with all sorts of ways to keep that crown. The latest: Amazon’s Prime Pantry.
With this new service, Amazon Prime members living i... |
| Apr 10, 2014 | Meals to your door: Food delivery service Munchery raises $28M, expands to Seattle | Do you like eating gourmet meals, but don’t like cooking and prefer the comfort of your own home?
Munchery might be worth looking at, then. The San Francisco-based startup today announced an expansion into the Seattle area, in addition to a... |
| Apr 5, 2014 | Amazon Dash is a magic wand for your food-shopping | Magic is pretty awesome. When Harry Potter uses his magic wand to cast spells or fight evil, he is pretty much the coolest guy ever. However, Mr. Potter is just make believe. Still, it is fun to imagine having magical powers too. Imagine wa... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | The free gadget that Amazon hopes will compel you to order more stuff — lots more stuff | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Amazon just launched a slick-looking website for the Amazon Dash, a handheld gadget for adding products to your shopping list.
“Every m... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | The free gadget that Amazon hopes will compel you to order more stuff — lots more stuff | Amazon just launched a slick-looking website for the Amazon Dash, a handheld gadget for adding products to your shopping list.
“Every member of the family can use Dash to easily add items to your AmazonFresh shopping list,” reads the site. ... |
| Apr 4, 2014 | Amazon Tests Dash Barcode Scanner For Ordering AmazonFresh Groceries | If you need help assembling your grocery list, it seems that Amazon has a product for you.
The company is featuring something called Amazon Dash on a new web page. Apparently it’s a Wi-Fi-connected device that allows users to build a shoppi... |
| Jan 28, 2014 | Walmart Begins Testing Online Grocery Shopping With Local Store Pickup Option In Denver | Walmart To Go, the retailer’s on-demand shopping service offering home delivery of general merchandise, including in some cases, groceries, is expanding its test in the Denver market today to also include a local pick-up option. Denver area... |
| Dec 13, 2013 | Amazon’s Pantry would bring bulk grocery orders to your doorstep | Fresh groceries, flying delivery drones, and now … wholesale deliveries? Online retail magnate Amazon is reportedly opening an online wholesale store called Pantry, potentially firing a shot across the bow of warehouse clubs like Costco and... |
| Dec 11, 2013 | AmazonFresh Launches In San Francisco | As we previously reported, Amazon has launched its grocery-delivery service in San Francisco today.
The service was previously available in Seattle and Los Angeles, but has now extended to the San Francisco Bay Area.
AmazonFresh costs $299/... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | AmazonFresh coming to SF December 10? | Signs are pointing to an expansion of Amazon's grocery delivery service to the Bay Area
Is AmazonFresh coming to San Francisco? All signs point to yes, based on several recent truck sitings as well as a job posting. Now AllThingsD is report... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | Roundup: Funding for Optimum, Visualant, Planets, Payments and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 6/18/13, 9:32 a.m. See below.] Optimum Energy and Visualant collected significant funding in the last week, while Planetary Resources announced a stretch goal for i... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Amazon Bets On Web Groceries, Expands AmazonFresh To L.A. | Confirming reports from earlier this month, Amazon has today expanded its online grocery service AmazonFresh to it first non-Seattle market: Los Angeles. The company homepage was quietly updated this morning with news of the expansion, and ... |
| Jun 6, 2013 | Amazon Makes Moves into Online Groceries | You had a long day at work today, the dishes are done, and the kids are asleep, but what are you going to feed them for breakfast tomorrow? It creeps up your spine, slowly, and then dawns upon you that you have no food in the fridge. Instea... |
| Jun 4, 2013 | Amazon Reportedly Looking To Expand Grocery Business, Roll Out AmazonFresh Beyond Seattle | Amazon has had an ongoing experiment for the past half decade called AmazonFresh, which offers grocery service and delivery of fresh produce to customers in its home base of Seattle. That program is on the verge of a significant expansion, ... |
| Jun 4, 2013 | Amazon prepares to take its online groceries business beyond Seattle | Amazon is planning to roll out its online groceries service AmazonFresh to two new cities by the end of 2013, according to a Reuters report today that cites anonymous people familiar with the plans.
AmazonFresh provides customers with meat,... |
| Jun 4, 2013 | Amazon wants to deliver your groceries, in addition to everything else | reader comments 97 with 73 posters participating, including story author
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| Aug 21, 2011 | Does Groupon Hope To Challenge Amazon With ‘Groupon Goods’? | Last week, daily deals giant Groupon registered a bunch of domain names with ‘groupongoods’ in them (.com, .net, .us, .info, .biz and interestingly, .fr). Evidently, securing those domain names doesn’t necessarily mean the company is going ... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | AmazonFresh goes mobile with Windows Phone app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
AmazonFresh, a grocery service from Amazon.com, has released its first mobile app. In a peculiar fashion, the first platform to get the... |
| Aug 3, 2007 | Amazon Considers Net Grocery Service | Amazon disclosed Thursday that it has begun testing an online grocery service to residents of a Seattle suburb. The effort mirrors similar but unsuccessful startups that appeared during the dot-com boom.
Those names -- WebVan and HomeGrocer... |
| Aug 1, 2007 | Remember Webvan? So Does Amazon | Check out Amazon Fresh – a new invite only service from Amazon that looks eerily similar to the quintessential 90’s Internet flameout, Webvan.
The new service promises speedy at-home delivery of groceries, including fresh produce, at “compe... |