Welcome to this week’s eFocus, RepricerExpress’ weekly round-up of ecommerce and Amazon news.
Amazon to create 400 new UK jobs in Cambridge to bolster AI and drone delivery business: Josie Cox at The Independent reports that Amazon has unveiled plans to hire 400 people for a new development centre in Cambridge. Amazon said it’s recruiting “extensively” for machine learning scientists, knowledge engineers, data scientists, mathematical modellers, speech scientists and software engineers. Continue reading…
Amazon debuts a marketplace for digital subscriptions: Leena Rao at Fortune reports that Amazon has debuted a marketplace for people to shop for digital subscriptions including newspapers, magazines and online fitness classes. The new site called “Subscribe with Amazon” already has Dropbox, The New Yorker, Fitbit’s fitness classes Fitstar and meditation app Headspace available on the site. Continue reading…
Amazon now has an estimated 80 million Prime members in the US, up 38% year over year: Matt Linder at Digital Commerce 360 reports that according to research by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, Amazon now has an estimated 80 million Prime customers in the United States, up 37.9% from 58 million this time last year. They estimate that 63.6% of all US households now have a Prime membership. Continue reading…
Amazon ASIN bullets limited to 500 characters Dan Wilson at Tamebay reports that Amazon is making changes to how they structure ASINs. The changes are unconfirmed so far but sellers on Amazon.com suggest the character limit for new ASINs is now 500, reduced from 2,000 characters. Continue reading…
New data shows Amazon is eating into Google’s territory — and it’s only going to get worse: Eugene Kim at Business Insider UK reports that in terms of ecommerce search, Google is losing a sizable chunk of its business to Amazon. According to a survey by financial services firm Raymond James, more than half of people start their search for online shopping on Amazon now, while only 26% use search engines like Google as the starting point. Continue reading…
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