Amazon wants to train young people to become cloud experts

Amazon has launched a new program today with the aim of educating young people to become cloud experts of the future.

Amazon opens a store for businesses

Amazon announced today the launch of Amazon Business, a new marketplace where customers can buy everything from mundane office supplies to high-end equipment.

Amazon TestDrive Bites The Dust

Amazon has decided to sunset the TestDrive service which allowed people to try Android apps before they decided to buy them. Since the feature was launched back in 2011 more than 16,000 apps have allowed people to try before they buy but as more and more apps move towards a ‘free to play’ model with in-app purchases, the TestDrive service’s usage has plummeted and that’s why Amazon has decided to kill it.

Amazon brings back the white Kindle e-reader in China and Japan

Have you missed white Kindle e-readers ever since they disappeared in 2012? So has Amazon.

Amazon launches Home Services to sell everything from an oil change to piano lessons

Amazon started out as an online bookstore, but has since expanded into selling almost any physical goods you can think of. But the company believes a lot of the stuff people buy on Amazon are things they could actually use help assembling, installing, or learning to enjoy.

Amazon Home Services Gets Its Official Launch

Amazon has officially introduced Amazon Home Services, as TechCrunch reported it would last week, the marketplace for professional services including things like TV installation, house cleaning, waiting, plumbing, electrical work and more.

Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft With Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage

Last year, Amazon gave a boost to its Prime members when it launched a free, unlimited photo storage for them on Cloud Drive. Today, the company is expanding that service as a paid offering to cover other kinds of content, and to users outside of its loyalty program. Unlimited Cloud Storage will let users get either unlimited photo storage or “unlimited everything” — covering all kinds of media from videos and music through to PDF documents — respectively for $11.99 or $59.99 per year.

Amazon is adding support for USB storage and other new features to Fire TV and Fire TV Stick

Amazon has today announced a raft of new features, which include expandable storage, that are headed to its Fire TV box and streaming sticks.

Amazon's Fire TV Stick arrives in the UK next month for £35

Google's Chromecast streaming dongle has proven to be quite the hit, but it does come with some drawbacks. There's no physical remote, for instance, and the lack of menus or any overarching UI can be alienating for some.

You can now preorder the Amazon Fire TV Stick in the UK for £35 or £19 if you’ve got Prime

Thee Amazon Fire TV Stick, the company’sChromecast competitor, has been available in the US for five months now and it’s finally coming to the UK.

Amazon wants to give paid apps away for free

Downloads from Amazon's Appstore almost assuredly aren't the raging success that the company's ventures like Prime are, but the retail juggernaut isn't giving up on it yet. In fact, the former looks like it's getting an injection of the latter's DNA with something called Unlocked.

Amazon extends Prime Now one-hour delivery service to Baltimore and Miami

Amazon has extended its Prime Now one-hour delivery service to Baltimore and Miami following limited trials elsewhere in the US.

13 reasons bookstores are better than Amazon

Can Amazon whisk you off your feet like walls filled with rows and rows of books can? I don't think so.

There's a certain magic evoked in bookstores that the Internet just can't replicate. Even though just about 60% of books are bought online now, there is a case for the sentiment of bookstores.

Amazon launches new Exclusives store, including products from TV’s Shark Tank

Amazon has just opened Exclusives, a new store for US customers that features products from up-and-coming brands, including some from inventors on the entrepreneur TV show Shark Tank.

Amazon sucks it up in China, opens a store on Alibaba’s marketplace

Here’s the weirdest China ecommerce news so far this year – and possibly all year: Amazon just opened up a store on Alibaba’s marketplace, Tmall. The shop (pictured above), which is currently selling a limited selection of what the Amazon China store offers, like food, women’s shoes, and children’s wear, is at Amazon.tmall.com (hat-tip to the Wall Street Journal for spotting this).

Amazon opens web store inside of Chinese archrival

Amazon has opened a store on Tmall, an online marketplace owned by Chinese retail giant and Amazon archrival Alibaba. The new store, which sells food, shoes, toys, kitchenware, and other items imported from outside China, shows Amazon's intentions to grow its business in a market projected to be worth $1.01 trillion by 2018.

Amazon's one-hour delivery is now available in all of Manhattan

Live or work in Manhattan? You now have an all-too-tempting way to impulse shop online. Amazon has confirmed to Mashable that its Prime Now delivery service is now available across the whole of the New York City borough, rather than the tiny area of before.

Amazon Prime Is One of the Most Bizarre Good Business Ideas Ever

Ten years ago this month, Jeff Bezos announced Amazon Prime to the world. “It’s simple,” he wrote in a letter posted to Amazon.com. “For a flat annual membership fee, you get unlimited two-day shipping for free.” It’s funny to look back and see how Bezos baked a little marketing sleight-of-hand right into the product launch—the shipping is not really free, after all, if you’re paying a fee. But one piece of what Bezos promised has held true for the past decade: For customers, Prime turns out to be dead simple.

Alibaba begins drone delivery trial to keep up with Amazon and Google

Amazon, Google, and UPS are experimenting with delivering items by drone, but it's not just American companies that are trying to get items to their customers by unmanned aerial vehicle.

Amazon reportedly wants to buy RadioShack stores to better compete with Apple

Amazon is reportedly in discussion with RadioShack to buy some of the company's brick-and-mortar stores after the troubled electronics chain files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Bloomberg says that the Seattle-based e-commerce giant is considering using the stores as showrooms for its hardware, and as pick-up and drop-off centers for items purchased online.