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Michelle Obama‘s ‘Becoming’ continues to make history. The highest selling book of 2018 is now officially the longest-selling No. 1 book on Amazon, surpassing a two-month run on top. According to CNN, Obama’s book knocked out Fifth Shades of Grey, the first book in what became a film-spawning series. Becoming tells stories of Obama’s upbringing […]
Amazon has launched a new video-on-demand service called, Brown Sugar, where users can watch nostalgic black films. According to The Grio, The subscription service features movies such as Shaft, Cotton Comes to Harlem, In the Heat of the Night, Cleopatra Jones, Crash, Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, Car Wash and more. Amazon Prime members can purchase Brown Sugar for a free seven-day trial […]
Amazon has got its eyes set on low-income shoppers. Â According to Recode, Amazon announced it’s offering a 45 percent discount on Prime membership (equating to $5.99 per month instead of $10.99 per month) to U.S. residents receiving government assistance. Shoppers with an Electronic Benefits Transfer card are eligible for the lower price but they also […]
The Fraternal Order of Police requested the removal of BLM shirts from Amazon after Walmart discontinued sales last week.
Local governments are offering tax breaks, subsidies and other incentives in corporate welfare to corporations like Amazon and Disney.
Did you do a ton of your holiday shopping online? Lots of people did, and there’s a good chance if you get a gift purchased online it came from Amazon. The Consumerist reports, 39.3% of all money spent by Americans shopping online is spent at Amazon.com, which is more than the next 20 biggest sellers […]
Amazon has announced its Prime Now one-hour delivery service is expanding to Houston and surrounding areas. This ultra-fast service, offered exclusively as a benefit to Prime members, provides one-hour delivery on tens of thousands of daily essentials through a mobile app. Prime Now is launching in Houston and surrounding area zip codes today. The service […]
(HOUSTON) — When our loved ones pass away, their books and record albums will often be passed down to the next generation. But we’re getting…
Amazon on Friday issued a detailed analysis and apology on last week’s massive crash of its cloud service, an event that brought down dozens of websites. The disruption to Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) Web Service’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, limited customers’ access to much of the information that was stored in the company’s East […]
Amazon just revealed its own specially curated version of the Android Marketplace, but has chosen to label it the “Appstore.” Apple, in turn, has now sued Android for trademark violation. The move is a not-so-subtle shot across Amazon’s bows. The suit was filed last week, but has emerged at more or less the same time […]
Ali had Frazier. Coke has Pepsi. The Yankees have the Red Sox. Now Wal-Mart, the mightiest retail giant in history, may have met its own worthy adversary: Amazon.com. In what is emerging as one of the main story lines of the 2009 post-recession shopping season, the two heavyweight retailers are waging an online price war […]
