Tag: amazon

• Amazon launches new Luxury Stores shopping experience with Oscar de la Renta

  September 15, 2020

  Amazon (AMZN) is entering the world of high fashion. The company announced on Tuesday that it is launching new Luxury Stores on its site that will give users access to… more ›

• Prime Gouging

  September 14, 2020

  Amazon set prices of products during the COVID-19 pandemic to levels that would be considered violations of price gouging laws in many states. Amazon has misled the public, law enforcement,… more ›

• Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry

  June 21, 2020

  On the morning of May 27, Kenneth Charles Blume III wanted to talk about white privilege. Blume, a 29-year-old DJ from Greenwich, Connecticut, has produced beats for some of the biggest… more ›

• How Are Rich People Getting Richer During the Coronavirus Pandemic?

  April 30, 2020

  For many Americans, the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic gets bleaker by the day. More than twice as many people are unemployed in the U.S. right now than there… more ›

• Amazon Pushes Into Making Video Games, Not Just Streaming Their Play

  April 29, 2020

  The internet giant is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the effort, with its first original game, Crucible, to be released next month. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/amazon-making-video-games.html more ›

• Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

  December 15, 2019

  Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations. SEATTLE — Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business… more ›

• Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

  October 22, 2019

  What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us. Where in the pantheon of American commercial titans does… more ›

• Is Amazon Unstoppable?

  October 22, 2019

  In 2017, a few months after Forbes named Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the world’s richest man, a rumor spread among the company’s executives: Bill Gates, the former wealthiest… more ›

• The Ringification of Suburban Life

  September 29, 2019

  Across the US, consumers are canvassing their communities with a new type of device that’s changing civic life. Camera-equipped doorbells and other home surveillance devices, made by companies like Ring,… more ›

• Jeff Bezos and the United States of Amazon

  July 29, 2019

  In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, the company that has since made him the richest man in the world. Julia Carrie Wong charts the company’s success and controversies. Plus: Jim… more ›