Tag Archives: amzn

Amazon Unveils Holiday Deals For Mobile Device Users

Amazon.com (AMZN), in a bid to bump up Christmas week sales, announced a series of digital content deals for mobile device owners on Monday. The giant online retailer’s move comes as trackers issue upbeat news about holiday sales and signs point to a record 2014 holiday shopping season online. Amazon is cutting prices on digital content in its Amazon Appstore, Amazon Instant Video, Amazon Music and Kindle Books with discounts ranging from 50% to

Millennials like watching people play video games

The fifth most popular type of video content millennials enjoy watching is … video of other people playing video games. That is one finding from a report this week by TiVo (TIVO) on the viewing habits of Americans, including the young demographic known as millennials. Millennials are the generation of people born between the early 1980s and early 2000s. In an average week, 6% of videos watched by millennials are of people playing video games. That compares with 1% among Generation X respondents and, for baby boomers … 0%. These statistics help explain why Amazon (AMZN) agreed to buy Twitch for $970 million on Aug. 25. Twitch is a streaming video platform, primarily focused on video games, including play-throughs of video games by users and live broadcasts of e-sports. Twitch gets about 45 million unique visitors a month. Amazon reportedly outbid Google (GOOGL) for Twitch. Google hosts a lot of…

Amazon Begins Bike Deliveries For Prime In Manhattan

Now, Amazon (AMZN) is talking real quick delivery. The company announced Thursday that it’s launched a one-hour bicycle delivery service in Manhattan for Prime members that buy eligible daily items through a mobile app — confirming earlier reports that such a program was in the works. The service, called Prime Now, for now is starting only in select areas of Manhattan. It’s slated to be rolled out to more U.S. cities in 2015. The cost for a