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26 votes
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Amazon's Twitter army was handpicked for "great sense of humor" leaked document reveals
18 votes -
Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate en route, despite company denial
24 votes -
Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.
18 votes -
The Amazon Assistant browser extension requires extensive permissions, has the capabilities to monitor and manipulate all of its users' web activity, and seems to violate multiple browsers' policies
11 votes -
Amazon offers $2,000 “resignation bonuses” to bust union drive in Alabama
12 votes -
Posing as Amazon seller, consumer group investigates fake-review industry
9 votes -
A hardware mute button for Alexa
6 votes -
Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO, will be replaced by Andy Jassy
23 votes -
Amazon unveils a proposed design for "The Helix", the second phase of its Arlington, Virginia headquarters
9 votes -
Amazon can make just about anything—except a good video game
12 votes -
AWS announces they will create and maintain an Apache-licensed fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
20 votes -
Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
7 votes -
Amazon will remove the Parler site from AWS
35 votes -
Goodreads is dead. What now?
8 votes -
Inside the whale: An interview with an anonymous Amazon employee
9 votes -
Do you think that Shopify could soon rival Amazon?
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I...
Notice: This has been cross-posted to another website, and re-worded
I currently work in the eCommerce industry, and have hands-on experience building up a Shopify site from the ground up. As I watch all of the developments that Shopify makes both from a technical development standpoint and logistical standpoint, it becomes more and more clear to me that Shopify can begin to take on Amazon directly.
The introduction of Shop app, which aggregates all shipments into a single application including those outside of Amazon, also allows users to browse products from any particular Shopify store. The app also notifies you of any shipping updates, and when packages have been delivered.
From a technical standpoint, Shopify's main attractions come down to a few things: order management, credit card processing, customer management, and plugin integrations. This is the core of Shopify's platform for both larger and smaller businesses. Though due to Shopify's requirement of using their CMS to serve your content, enterprise users have to look elsewhere in order to build something called "headless builds", which essentially use alternate CMS mixed with Shopify's CMS to continue serving their content.
There are a few companies that make such software in order to build out a fully custom site while still using the Shopify platform as its core, though at the moment they are a little 'hacky' but still fully functional. Given the interest in Shopify's platform at such a high level, they are very likely working on their own headless framework which could allow for 1) mainstream stores to integrate their existing platforms into a unified Shopify marketplace, and 2) to allow stores to build out fully custom websites using the Shopify platform at its core and also enroll them into a unified Shopify marketplace.
Amazon has mostly become a front for cheap Chinese-made products, laden with review manipulation and questionable product quality. By instead bringing large brands on board with a unified Shopify marketplace, those stores can sell quality products backed by their brands which can gain trust from customers, and will give rise to smaller brands that may have been unnoticed by larger populations.
[ For example, I recently bought a pair of shoes from a very popular Shopify store: they represent quality, comfort, and eco-friendliness. I personally find myself more willing to spend money on quality products from companies I know I can trust. ]What's everyone's thoughts? Are there any general problems that could come from Shopify trying to jump-start a full-blown marketplace? Do you think that companies would be willing to integrate their ERP's and CMS's with whatever API's or headless framework Shopify decides to build out?
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Amazon Halo review: The fitness gadget we don’t deserve or need
5 votes -
An interesting analysis of scented candles reviews vs. COVID-19 spread
@Kate Petrova: I couldn't just walk past this Tweet, so here is some fun #datavizScented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n https://t.co/xEmCTQn9sA pic.twitter.com/tVecEiX5Jc
23 votes -
Amazon's reported surveillance of workers could break Australian law, union says
7 votes -
Amazon wants to win over Sweden – the Swedes have other ideas
7 votes -
Amazon releases "Halo" wearable which analyzes emotions in the user's voice
14 votes -
Amazon's launch of a Swedish retail site has caused embarrassment – confusing, nonsensical and occasionally vulgar product listings scattered across the catalogue
6 votes -
Despite brute-forcing its way to dominance in many other industries, Amazon is having difficulty getting a foothold in games
11 votes -
Amazon's free-to-play shooter Crucible is ceasing development, refunding all purchases, and will shut down on November 9 (less than six months after launch)
20 votes -
Invincible | Official teaser
5 votes -
Why you can't boycott Amazon (and shouldn't even try)
13 votes -
US House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes
18 votes -
Amazon's internal records show that it deceived the public on rising injury rates among its warehouse workers
12 votes -
Amazon announces Luna cloud gaming service
6 votes -
2020 Bundles - An overview of bundle-based offerings from major tech companies
5 votes -
Amazon Alexa for Residential will let the voice assistant power apartment complexes
15 votes -
Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups
7 votes -
Amazon deletes 20,000 product reviews written by seven of its top ten UK reviewers after a Financial Times investigation found they were written for profit
18 votes -
Silk live-action Marvel series in the works at Sony Pictures Television
4 votes -
Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
6 votes -
Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US FAA approval
4 votes -
Multiple court rulings have found Amazon responsible for defects in products sold by third-party merchants
6 votes -
Why Microsoft's new Flight Simulator should make Google and Amazon nervous
32 votes -
New Toyotas will upload data to AWS
11 votes -
Amazon liable for defective third-party products rules CA Appellate Court
6 votes -
Shopping addiction and COVID: The Amazon addicts of quarantine
11 votes -
US Congress made Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google CEOs sweat during antitrust enforcement hearing
10 votes -
US congressional antitrust hearing with the the CEOs of Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook
4 votes -
Brian K. Vaughan's ‘Paper Girls’ scores series order from Amazon
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Turning Lambda@Edge into a software platform
4 votes -
A personal account of a fake Amazon reviewer
15 votes -
Just too efficient
11 votes -
Amazon orders employees to remove TikTok from phones, then backtracks
10 votes -
Why Jeff Bezos must be stopped before it’s too late
17 votes