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Amazon switches Prime’s restaurant-delivery partner while preserving ordering inside its own app. The business test is the checkout experience, not the launch offer.
The self-service portal simplifies access to Amazon's existing off-site shopping program; it is not a new checkout or fulfillment service.
Cloud growth accelerated, but companywide sales and earnings fell short of analyst estimates.
New account-management capabilities make conversational shopping a customer-service design question, not just a discovery tool.
The clash puts a practical limit on Meta’s shopping agent and exposes a fight over permission, customer data and checkout control.
Amazon’s short-form news playlists make streaming a discovery layer for live and longer coverage, with consequences for media reach, attribution and conversion.
A new X-Ray shopping tab and scene-level product discovery bring content, retail media and checkout closer together inside Amazon’s video ecosystem.
A multigenerational Amazon partnership gives Qualcomm a path into AI data centers while tying potential equity ownership to future purchases.
A federal complaint alleges Amazon quietly used reserve prices to raise what advertisers paid, while Amazon says the case misunderstands its auctions.
Eligible U.S. creators can tag Amazon products in Shorts, long videos and livestreams, tightening the link between influence and checkout.
