Tag: Amazon

Facebook tries its hand at hardware with Portal

Facebook tries its hand at hardware with Portal

Portal is not Facebook’s Echo Show. Call it a case of convergent evolution, wherein two companies arrived at similar looking products after approa ...
Snapchat lets you take a photo of an object to buy it on Amazon

Snapchat lets you take a photo of an object to buy it on Amazon

See, snap, sale. In a rare partnership for Amazon, the commerce giant will help Snapchat challenge Instagram and Pinterest for social shopping s ...
Amazon’s Alexa can now act on ‘hunches’ about your behavior

Amazon’s Alexa can now act on ‘hunches’ about your behavior

Amazon’s big hardware event isn’t all about hardware — although there is plenty of that, too. Amazon also talked about how it’s making its ...
League raises $62M Series B to fix corporate health care benefits

League raises $62M Series B to fix corporate health care benefits

League founder and CEO Michael Serbinis League, an online platform that wants to reduce the strain of managing health benefits for comp ...
AnyVision AI startup locks in $28M for its body and facial recognition tech

AnyVision AI startup locks in $28M for its body and facial recognition tech

As image recognition advances continue to accelerate, startups with a mind towards security applications are seeing some major interest to ...
Banned From Amazon: The Shoppers Who Make Too Many Returns

Banned From Amazon: The Shoppers Who Make Too Many Returns

 Khadeeja Safdar,The Wall Street Journal Even Amazon.com Inc. has its limits. The e-commerce giant bans sh ...