Category: Amazon News
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Amazon Fire TV Upgrades Voice Search Controls
Amazon upgraded its Fire TV voice search feature, recently adding phonetically blended results (PBR). Since AI voice recognition isn’t perfect and doesn’t account for accents as well as unintentionally pick up other sounds in the room, PBR helps eliminate repeated attempts to voice search for specific programs by offering up a list of related search…
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Amazon’s Audible Names A New Chief Content Officer As It Looks to Expand
Amazon is shuffling operations at Audible by announcing Rachel Ghiazza as the new chief content officer. She will be working on Amazon’s new main objective for Audibles and managing the creation of new Audible originals. Ghiazza’s new role also includes overseeing all stages of audiobooks and podcast content from pitch to delivery as well as…
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The Top 10 Free Apps Every Amazon Fire TV & Fire TV Stick Owner Should Have In July 2023
Do you own a Fire TV or Fire TV Stick from Amazon? They are great streaming players that let you access a ton of paid content like Paramount+, Hulu, Apple TV+, and more. But the Fire TV also has a ton of 100% free streaming services that every cord cutter should try. Now you likely…
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Amazon’s Fire TV Stick Was The Best Selling Device on Prime Day 2023 As Prime Members Saved Over $2.5 Billion
Amazon’s Prime Day 2023 is now officially over, even though a few deals are still going on right now. Now Amazon has announced that the Fire TV Stick was the best-selling device during Prime Day around the world. “The first day of Prime Day was the largest sales day in Amazon’s history, and Prime members…
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Amazon is Cracking Down on The Sale of Stolen Goods
Dozens of sellers have had their accounts suspended or banned on Amazon. The company claims these accounts were selling stolen merchandise, however, several sellers have stated they did not know the products were stolen. Amazon has very strict policies regarding selling items through its website and has a no-tolerance policy in place for stolen goods.…
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Grubhub+ is Offering $15 Off $25 Orders Exclusively for Amazon Prime Members – Here is What You Need to Know
Amazon Prime Day is nearly upon us and members are already getting some exclusive deals leading up to next Tuesday along with some sneak peeks for the big day(s). One such deal is a discount on a Grubhub+ subscription. Amazon Prime members can use the code GRUBPRIME to get $15 off any GrubHub orders over…
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Amazon Announces Date for This Year’s New Fire TVs & Services Event
Today, Amazon announced it will be setting September 20th to announce new developments the company has been designing since last year. Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Devices and Services, David Limp posted this save the date announcement: “The Devices & Services team has already had a very busy year, and now that Amazon’s HQ2 is…
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Former Amazon Employees Found Guilty of Stealing $9.4 Million From Amazon
Former Amazon operations manager Kayricka Wortham, along with six other individuals, has been charged with stealing over $9.4 million from the company. During her time at Amazon, she filed over $10 million in faux invoices for vendors that don’t exist, duping the company into paying her and her co-conspirators $9.4 million. “The defendant abused her…
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Amazon’s CEO is Cracking Down on Expensive Prime Video Projects
Amazon Prime Video has been spending loads of money creating series that just simply aren’t panning out as hoped. Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy is taking a hard look at the numbers to see why multimillion-dollar shows aren’t resonating with audiences. As reported by Bloomberg, last year alone Amazon Prime spent around $7 billion on original…
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Amazon Luna is Offering Members an Exclusive Fortnite Reward Starting Today on Fire TV & More
Starting today, Fortnite fans will get a special reward for Amazon Luna brought to you by Epic Games. If you’re an Amazon Luna member, log in to Fortune via the platform between July 3rd at 12:00 p.m. ET through July 17th at 11:59 p.m. ET to receive a free Velocity Edge Pickaxe. Any Amazon Luna…