Amazon Echo Speaker Plays Music and Shops

Amazon has just announced Echo, a new speaker that can play music and responds to voice commands. The dismal failure of the Fire Phone has not curbed Amazon from releasing more hardware. Today, the company has debuted a new 9 inch tall speaker that can not only play music, but can also respond to voice … Read more

Why Amazon Fire Phone was a Dismal Flop

The results are now in and it appears that Amazon’s Fire phone was a dismal flop. Amazon has around $83 million worth of unsold phones after a venture that cost them over $170 million. But it doesn’t mean that they wont try again. Senior Vice President of Devices, David Limp stated one of the main … Read more

Amazon Releases New Fire TV Stick

Amazon has just released a new Fire TV Stick in order to compete with Googles Chromecast. Google has made it no secret that Amazon is their number one competitor and it seems that Amazon knows it to be true as well as the company announces their very own Fire TV Stick. Like Google’s Chromecast, the … Read more

Amazon Expanding Their Hardware

Amazon is planning to expand their hardware operations after the successful launch of their first smartphone. Amazon announced that hiring would increase by 27 percent over the next five years in the company’s secret hardware division, Lab 126. Currently Amazon has about 3000 full time employees working in Lab126 and this is expected to grow … Read more

Amazon Drops Fire Phone to Just 99 Cents

Amazon has decided to become super competitive and have released their smartphone for just 99c on an AT&T plan. In order to compete with Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6, Amazon has decided to drop the price of their Fire phone to just 99 cents. The 32 gigabyte phone initially cost $199 when it was released just … Read more

Amazon Beats out Google and Acquires Twitch for $970M

Amazon has just announced that they have purchased Twitch for $970 million, beating out Google who was also vying for the deal.  Amazon has offered the video game streaming site $970 million in cash and it seems that the offer has been accepted. “Like Twitch, we obsess over customers and like to think differently, we … Read more

Amazon Launches eBook Library Subscription Service

Love to read? Amazon is launching a subscription service that includes unlimited access to a library of electronic and audio books for $9.99 per month.  Amazon, who is one of the largest e-commerce giants in the US stated that the new Kindle Unlimited service would allow users to have access to over 600,000 electronic books … Read more

Amazons Restaurant Delivery and Take Out App

Is there anything Amazon can’t do? The company just announced the release of their new smartphone last week to go alongside their Kindle tablets and Fire TV and now it seems that the company is getting ready to launch a restaurant app. This new app is expected to rival the likes of GrubHub and EAT24 … Read more

Amazon Offers 31 Free Apps for Today Only

Want some free apps? When it comes to app stores, Google and Apple dominate the market however, in order to attract attention, Amazon is doing the only thing that gets customers in the door- offer them stuff for free. For today only, Amazon is offering 31 apps, valued at a total of $100 for free. … Read more

Why Amazon Really Released the Fire Phone

It wasn’t too hard to guess that Amazon was in the works of releasing their own smartphone but it seems that this new gadget offers a lot more than a fancy 3D screen and high end camera. It seemed only a natural step for the e-commerce giant to release a smartphone after the success of … Read more