Sentences with phrase «by the online retailer giant»

All the tablets developed by the online retailer giant come with Amazon's proprietary user interface, meant to transform them into veritable multimedia devices.

Early in April digital comics distributor ComiXology announced that was to be acquired by the online retail giant Amazon.

While one report indicated there may have been problems with copies being warped by heat, neither Vaughan nor publisher Image Comics were given an explanation by the online retail giant.

The Amazon Kindle Fire is the first Android - powered tablet released by the online retailer giant.

All the tablets developed by the online retailer giant come with Amazon's proprietary user interface, meant to transform them into veritable multimedia devices.

Not exact matches

The test reflects the increasing adoption of technology by big retailers as they try to keep up with online retail giant Amazon (amzn), which uses robots in some of its warehouses in addition to other cutting - edge technology.

Retail giant Gap may have suffered declining sales during the recession, but immune to that drop was its online - only women's activewear brand, Athleta, which grew by 10 %.

The wealth of Bezos grew by $ 3.3 billion on an after - hours surge of Amazon (amzn) stock Thursday, reports Bloomberg, on the back of the online retail giant's expectations - beating first quarter results.

With Amazon continuing to keep retailers on edge by its partnerships with assorted venues, the business world is closely watching for what the online giant will do next, what companies it will acquire and what industries it will penetrate.

The online retail giant is inviting people to New York to measure them with a 3 - D body scanner

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Laura Stevens

Amazon.com Inc. wants to understand one of the more intimate things about you: body size.

The vitamins maker made its three infant formula products — newborn, follow - on and toddler — available for pre-order on its website and a Chinese online retailer owned by e-commerce giant Alibaba on Tuesday.

Instead of blog posts about the retail giant's underhanded ways or entire three - day conferences devoted to how publishers can bring down the largest online retailer their industry faces, one book shop is going about the competition a little differently, namely by offering the titles that consumers currently can't buy from Amazon.

Amazon appears to be «gearing up for the latest chapter in its international expansion: an operation in Russia,» according to TechCrunch, which cited an article in the Russian edition of Forbes reporting that the online retail giant «has opened its first office in the country, headed by Arkady Vitrouk.

Online retail giant Amazon plans to unveil a tablet computer before October in a bid to carve out a slice of a growing market dominated by Apple's iPad, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

But Amazon has one more thing to offer that no one is doing for teachers, something that the online retail giant has made a huge industry of by itself: reviews.

If you've happened to venture into an independent bookstore in the past few years, you may have noticed an e-reader for sale that isn't produced by an online retailer or a giant bookstore chain.

Online retail giant Amazon is cheapest option only on its top 20 bestsellers, with lower - selling books costing 14 % more than price charged by rivals, study finds.

According to a report filed by Bloomberg, online retail giant Amazon is toying with the idea of launching a mobile payments service.

The online retail giant is by far the largest component of the discretionary sector, accounting for about 20 % of its market capitalization.

When online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. announced that it would purchase Whole Foods Market Inc., a plunge in retail and grocery stocks reinforced the disinflationary tone set by three straight months of disappointing data on consumer prices.

Chinese online retail giant Alibaba has filed a lawsuit against a firm based in Dubai accusing it of causing confusion by making use of its trademarked name and brand to raise over $ 3.5 million in an Initial Coin Offering of a digital currency called Alibabacoin (ABBC).

An executive from online retail giant, Amazon, has said the company is open to a collaborative partnership with its biggest rivals including Google and Apple, if that means a major improvement to its digital assistant Alexa, according to a new report by Bloomberg.

(Reuters)-- Walmart is teaming up with Google to enter the nascent voice - shopping market, currently dominated by Amazon, adding another front to the giant retailer's battle with the online megastore.

The service is currently available in four major cities in the US, and was originally launched by the internet giant in 2013 in an apparent effort to compete against Amazon on its own turf, with the online retailer increasingly focusing its attention on product searches in recent years.

The device was launched by the Seattle, Washington - based online retail giant in November 2014, but sales were initially restricted only to Amazon Prime members.

A few days after this, Amazon tried being the bigger company and said it'd once again start selling the Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra, and it now appears the online retail giant is offering yet another olive branch to Google by releasing a Prime Video app on Android TV.

As to what, precisely, Amazon is doing to confront the issue, sources close to the company say that the online retail giant is adding hundreds of engineers — with the goal of increasing Alexa engineers by 50 percent from the current 3,000 employees, by investing heavily in hiring, with a priority on hiring those who can work on Alexa.

This latest project by the social media dominator is very akin to the kind of system that Amazon has perfected: the online retail giant promotes products related to what a customer has already purchased or searched for.

It isn't surprising that retail, hit by competition from online giants such as Amazon.com Inc., has been buffeted by anemic income growth at the lower end of the income spectrum.

Driven by a huge demand for warehouse space from e-commerce giant Amazon.com and other online retailers, industrial properties were the top performers for investors in