by Adre's IT | 8 June, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, amazon pay, DNA testing, m-commerce, Nelo, NVCA
Affirm has become the first buy now, pay later player to be added to Amazon Pay, the two companies announced today. As part of the new partnership, any Amazon Pay merchants in the U.S. can now choose to offer their customers the option to “buy now, pay laterâ€...
by Adre's IT | 2 June, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, D Wave, Unpluq, wireless carriers
Amazon is considering offering low-cost or possibly free nationwide mobile phone service to Prime subscribers in the United States, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The tech giant is reportedly in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network and AT&T....
by Adre's IT | 1 June, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, Asana, consumer electronics, FTC, ftc violation, robotexts, Security
Amazon will pay the FTC a $25 million penalty as well as “overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards” to avoid charges of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to spruce up its AI. Amazon’s voice...
by Adre's IT | 1 June, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, clearview ai, Eric Yuan, ftc violation, mosquitoes, Security, sonic, video doorbell
Ring, the Amazon-owned maker of video surveillance devices, will pay $5.8 million over claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission that Ring employees and contractors had broad and unrestricted access to customers’ videos for years. The settlement was filed...
by Adre's IT | 31 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, Asana, rohit prasad
Amazon is discontinuing celebrity voices for Alexa—a feature you may or may not have known about. The three Alexa voices — Samuel L. Jackson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Melissa McCarthy — are no longer available for purchase. The Verge was the first to...
by Adre's IT | 26 May, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, Amazon Prime Day, Anu Duggal, Asia, india, m-commerce, New Delhi, nobroker, reliance jio, retail store, Startup Alley, Tencent Holdings
The Indian conglomerate Reliance is poised to outpace Amazon and Walmart-backed Flipkart in the race for the country’s $150 billion e-commerce market, analysts at Bernstein projected in a scathing report to clients this week, challenging the prevailing industry...
