Tag: Amazon
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Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots
Amazon YouTube Channel – 12.1.18 (11.27.18) Amazon celebrates Giving Tuesday by launching an easy way for customers to donate a toy to a child in need this holiday via Alexa and Toys for Tots. Customers simply say, “Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots,” and they will be presented with a reasonably priced item appropriate…
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Amazon Announces Record-Breaking Holiday Shopping Weekend: Cyber Monday Once Again Becomes the Single Biggest Shopping Day in the Company’s History
Amazon Newsroom – 11.29.18 (11.27.18) Amazon today announced that Cyber Monday was once again the single biggest shopping day in the company’s history with more products ordered worldwide than any other day. Additionally, the Turkey 5, those five popular shopping days starting with Thanksgiving and continuing through Cyber Monday, broke records as customers in the U.S. purchased millions more products…
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It’s Time! Here’s A Sneak Peek at Amazon’s Cyber Monday Deals
Amazon Newsroom – 11.26.18 (11.23.18) Amazon today released a selection of deals that customers can take advantage of throughout Cyber Monday Deals Week. Starting tomorrow, November 24 through December 1, customers can find deep discounts across a wide selection of the season’s hottest products across every department, from Amazon Devices to toys, electronics, fashion, beauty and more.…
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Amazon Makes Waves with Warner Bros. Pictures to Offer Prime Members Exclusive Advance Showings of James Wan’s Aquaman on December 15, 2018
Amazon Newsroom – 11.20.18 (11.19.18) Amazon Prime members can be the first to experience the epic, action-packed adventure in the stunning undersea world of Atlantis. Aquaman is sure to be at the top of everyone’s wish list this season and Prime members will get exclusive access to an early showing of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and director James Wan’s…
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Amazon’s Seven Days of Black Friday Deals – More Than 50 Deals of the Day and Thousands of Deals Across Every Department
Amazon Newsroom – 11.19.18 (11.15.18) Amazon revealed a preview of its Black Friday Deals Week, which offers shoppers deeper discounts and more selection this year with deals in every department starting tomorrow, November 16, through November 23 (Black Friday). Read more: Amazon’s Seven Days of Black Friday Deals – More Than 50 Deals of the Day and Thousands…
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Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
Amazon Newsroom – 11.14.18 (11.13.18) Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it has selected New York City and Arlington, Virginia, as the locations for the company’s new headquarters. Amazon will invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters locations, with more than 25,000 employees each in New York City and Arlington. The new locations will join Seattle as the company’s three headquarters…
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Amazon Expands Free Shipping to Everyone for the Holiday Season
Amazon Newsroom – 11.6.18 (11.5.18) For a limited time, all Amazon customers in the U.S. can enjoy free shipping with no minimum purchase amount. Customers can shop the largest free shipping selection in the country – hundreds of millions of items on Amazon Tens of millions of Prime members in the U.S. Read more: Amazon…
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Amazon Launches Childhood-to-Career Program “Amazon Future Engineer” to Inspire and Empower Underprivileged Youth to Build Careers in Computer Science
Amazon Newsroom – 11.2.18 (11.1.18) The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science-related jobs available and only 400,000 computer science graduates with the skills to apply for those jobs. Computer science is the fastest growing profession within the Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) field, but only 8%…
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Can You Feel It – Amazon Holidays 2018
Amazon YouTube Channel – 11.2.18 The Amazon boxes are back in full voice, singing out loud for those feeling the festive spirit. Source: Can You Feel It – Amazon Holidays 2018
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Statcast AI Powered by AWS in the 2018 MLB Postseason
Amazon YouTube Channel – 10.29.18 This postseason, see how Statcast AI Powered by AWS – https://amzn.to/2y94taV, can actually predict the chance of success if a runner attempts to steal a base by analyzing thousands of data points per second in real time. Watch this postseason to see it in action. Source: Statcast AI Powered by AWS…