Amazon News Rundown August 16, 2019 – August 31, 2019

Learn about the recent updates on Amazon through our Amazon News Rundown. On the second half of August, we put a spotlight on Amazon news around the world, Amazon’s tools and technology, competition, advertising, and the success stories in the marketplace among others. Pick out the Amazon news that appeals to you the most.

Amazon News Around the World

• Amazon sales data shows tariffs hit US vendors harder
• Amazon Holds Talks With Indonesian Ride-Hailing Startup Gojek
• Putting A New Amazon 4-Star Store In Seattle Is The Right Next Move For The Quirky Concept
• Amazon Is Taking Israel by Storm. Here Is What This Means for the Market
• Prince George’s County: Amazon says it won’t build fulfillment center in Upper Marlboro
• Amazon Deal Opens Door to Bigger Footprint in India
• AmazonFresh expands to three key markets: Houston, Minneapolis and Phoenix
• Local Market Politics Make Israeli Retailers Hesitant to Join Amazon, Experts Say
• What’s The Deal? Residents Nationwide Ask Amazon Where ‘Surprise’ Package Came From

Amazon Earnings, Sales, Tax and Stocks

• Find a Better Time (and a Better Price) to Buy Amazon Stock
• Amazon sales data shows tariffs hit US vendors harder
• Amazon To Pass French Digital Tax Onto Marketplace Sellers
• Beware Tax Consequences of Amazon FBA Donation Program
• Why Is Amazon (AMZN) Down 11.4% Since Last Earnings Report?
• Amazon acquires stake in Indian grocer
• Amazon’s tiny profits, explained

Amazon Prime

• Amazon Prime Day entices shoppers to join Prime
• Prime members can save an extra 20% on Amazon Warehouse deals
• Amazon Prime: Integral Part of Amazon’s Success Story
• 8 subtle ways Amazon is targeting teenagers and turning them into loyal Prime members

Amazon News in Other Industries and Marketplaces

• Amazon introduces plastic packaging that can’t be recycled
• Music Industry Calls Out Amazon, eBay for Selling Counterfeit CDs

Tips, Strategies and Updates for Amazon Sellers and Shoppers

• Amazon launches 150 tools & services for online businesses
• Younglanes Amazon Appeal Services is Helping Sellers to Reinstate their Amazon Accounts
• Rethinking Placement & Price in the Age of the Amazon Buy Box
• Amazon single sign-on to help sellers manage cross-regional accounts
• Hijacked Reviews on Amazon Can Trick Shoppers
• How to use Amazon and advertising to build a D2C startup
• The common mistakes new Amazon sellers make, and how to avoid them!
• Why Amazon says it’s good for entrepreneurs
• How brick-and-mortar retailers can succeed on Amazon
• Amazon invests in new tools to help smaller marketplace sellers
• 8 Ways to Spot a Fake Amazon Review

Amazon Advertising

• Report: Amazon testing improved ad analytics
• Amazon Is Testing A Clean Room Service, Giving Advertisers Access To New Data Sets
• Amazon Ads Boost Marketplace Search Rankings

Technology and Software Updates

• Are External Repricers Under Threat from Amazon?
• Amazon Seeks Exclusive Programming for IMDb TV
• Amazon just announced a new way to make money from its home Wi-Fi business: Subscriptions
• What Amazon knows about you, and is it always listening?
• Amazon Rekognition Can Now Detect Fear, But Critics Call The Development ‘Creepy’

Amazon Alexa

• Amazon Alexa will soon help people check in on aging relatives, with new skill from State Farm

Career and Workplace Issues and Opportunities

• The pilots who fly your Amazon Prime packages just suffered a major loss in their 3-year quest for a new work contract
• Amazon’s top treasurer leaves the company after 15 years of managing its money
• Amazon or the military: Warehouse bosses pressured 3 workers to choose
• How Amazon is fighting back against workers’ increasing efforts to unionize
• Amazon will hire 400 for expanded Portland office
• Amazon Seeks New Local Vendors in Israel as It Eyes Expansion

Success and Growth Stories

• Amazon Expands Grocery Delivery Service to 3 New Markets
• The Secret Behind Amazon and Mercadolibre’s Success
• Amazon Is Targeting a $9 Trillion B2B Opportunity
• Amazon has signed a deal that could give it a huge edge over Walmart in India
• Amazon inaugurates its largest campus in Hyderabad

Challenges and Issues

• Review fraud: Hijacked Amazon reviews a big problem says Consumer Reports
• Amazon moves Supreme Court against direct selling companies
• Court To Reconsider Amazon’s Responsibility For Shoddy Marketplace Merchandise
• Amazon Marketplace is still struggling to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods

Things to Be Wary of

• EVEN AMAZON’S OWN PRODUCTS ARE GETTING HIJACKED BY IMPOSTER SELLERS
• Aggressive Amazon tactic pushes you to consider its own brand before you click ‘buy’
• Thousands of unsafe products still available on Amazon
• Amazon Sells Thousands Of Banned And Unsafe Products, WSJ Investigation Finds

Amazon’s Competition

• Better Buy: Shopify vs. Amazon

Partnerships with Amazon

• MBS Now Listed On The Amazon Advertising Find-A-Partner Directory
• Intentwise is now an Amazon Advertising partner!
• Is This Proof That Amazon Returns Are Working at Kohl’s?
• Amazon Might Be the Best Thing to Happen to Kohl’s. Here’s How Their Partnership Has Paid Off

Expert Opinions and Insights

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• ‘Entrepreneurial’ Re-sellers Turn Amazon.com into Retailing’s Wild West
• Why Amazon isn’t looming as an automatic world conqueror
• Amazon Investing More Than $15 Billion In Third Party Sellers, But Is It Enough To Protect Its Reputation?
• Can you trust what’s sold on Amazon? A Wall Street Journal probe suggests not
• Amazon doesn’t overlook smaller sellers
• Amazon’s strategy to win over congressional critics: Tours of its giant warehouses
• How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon

Amazon Fire TV and Prime Video

• SOMOS Distribution Licenses Subete A Mi Moto To Amazon Prime Video
• The best Amazon Prime Video arrivals of September 2019
• Altice Europe Connects Amazon Prime Video to the Set-Top Box
• Amazon Prime Video Secures Distribution With Altice European Subsidiaries
• AMAZON FIRE: UNINTENDED PUBLICITY AS STREAMING TV STICK APPEARS IN GOOGLE SEARCHES AMID RAINFOREST DISASTER

Amazon News in Healthcare

• Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

Statistics and Research

• Third-Party Sellers: Opportunity or Threat for Amazon?