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Wish there was a way to be alerted the second that banging album you’ve been anticipating drops? Now Alexa can help you stay up to date with your favourite bands and musicians. Over the weekend, Amazon Music announced the New Release Notifications feature , which lets you follow an artist and then get a notification every time they release a new song or album. The notification will appear on your Amazon Music mobile app or as a yellow light ring on your Amazon Echo device. How it works To follow an artist on your Echo device you can say “Alexa, follow <an artist> on Amazon Music” or saying “Alexa, let me know when <an artist> has new music” to an Alexa-enabled device within earshot. You don’t necessarily even need to know the name of the artist; when a tune’s playing via Alexa, saying “Alexa, follow this artist on Amazon Music” or “Alexa, let me know when this artist has a new album” will add the musical g...

Yesterday at Seattle, Amazon’s annual hardware event took place, where the company took the opportunity to rapid-fire a total of 12 new devices under an hour. However, there was a high expectations everything from Alexa-powered microwaves to amplifiers, and that’s what we got. And then some. Here’s the run-down on all the new gadgets coming from Amazon, and what they’ll cost you. Echo Dot (3rd Generation) The most popular Echo smart speaker just got an update, as Amazon revealed the latest Echo Dot model during its surprise event on Thursday. While it has the same shape as previous models, the new design features curved edges, fabric covers, and improved sound quality. It has the same four buttons as previous models as well, but there are only four microphones inside this time around rather than seven. It launches in November for $49.99 . Echo Plus (2nd Generation) In addition to the new Echo Dot, Amazon also introduced an updated Echo Plus with more bass, the sa...

Apple got there first. Amazon was second. For a brief moment early this week, Amazon shares of climbed to $2,050.50, pushing its market capitalisation above $1 trillion. That makes the e-commerce giant the second US company to attain a $1 trillion value, after Apple in August . The $1 trillion marker is an impressive, and a largely psychological milestone lots of people get excited about big round numbers. Within minutes of reaching it, Amazon’s stock price had fallen about $10, dragging the company’s market cap back down to the $990 billion range. Apple, on the other hand, sits comfortably at $1.1 trillion. Analysts at Morgan Stanley predicted in November 2017 that Amazon would become a $1 trillion company by the end of 2018. At the time, they valued its e-commerce operations (Amazon.com) at $600 billion, its cloud-computing business (Amazon Web Services) at $270 billion, its membership program (Amazon Prime) at $70 billion, and its advertising efforts at $55 billion. (Thos...

Snapchat will be teaming up with Amazon in the near future. The photo sharing company is working on turning its camera into a visual search engine that will link users to Amazon listings. The unreleased feature was spotted in the code of Snapchat’s Android app by an app researcher working with TechCrunch , who hinted off the feature that appears to be in the works for the mobile camera app — which was found in the app"s code after a recent Android update. Discovered by Ishan Agarwal , the latest details reveal strings referencing Amazon in context with the project codenamed Eagle helping users get started with the new feature. The feature appears to be able to scan and identify objects that the Snapchat camera is pointed at, and then link users to the Amazon pages for the product. How it works The new feature is simple to use and easy to comprehend. All most same way, you take hold to view all snap filters which pops up, with this you have to “ Press and hold to iden...

The second generation of Snap Inc.’s Spectacles, released in late April , is now available for purchase via ecommerce giant Amazon. Snap Inc.’s new hands-free camera with the ability to capture photos—the first release only captured videos—quicker transfer of HD content via Wi-Fi, water-resistant construction, a sleeker frame and more options for frame colours and lens shades First-gen Spectacles were sold exclusively through novel pop-up vending machines before being sold online , but second-gen Specs launched on Spectacles․com before selling out. Now Snapchat is making its new smart glasses easier to buy than ever with availability on Amazon.com . The new model joins the cheaper and less capable first-gen edition on Amazon, so be careful which version you order. [caption id="attachment_11751" align="aligncenter" width="634"] The three new colors: "Onyx Moonlight," "Sapphire Twilight" and "Ruby Daybreak [/caption] The second-gen S...

Amazon is increasing the price of its Prime membership in the U.S. for the first time in four years. The change, effective from May 11, will allow new subscribers pay $119 a year for the shipping and entertainment membership program, instead of the normal $99. The new annual fee would apply to current Prime members starting with renewals on June 16. Amazon last raised Prime’s fee in 2014, when it costed customers only $79 a year. Prime is the most important lever in Amazon’s dominant online retail machine. Prime members make more purchases on Amazon than non-Prime members and spend more per year.  However, the program is incredibly expensive to fund by Amazon. The number of products available for free two-day shipping through Prime has grown from 20 million in 2014 to more than 100 million today. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos disclosed in his annual shareholders letter that Prime had more than 100 million members worldwide — a surprise unveiling since the company had nev...

[caption id="attachment_10998" align="aligncenter" width="634"]                              This is the lifelike child sex doll Image: DailyMail  [/caption] Some sex dolls were discovered on Amazon site for sale. The dolls were about 4 feet tall with waist sizes about 16 inches. Unlike other baby dolls, these had sexual poses with "mannequin sexy" as the description. England"s Children Commissioner caller for the disgusting child sex dolls to be taken down after a BBC probe discovered they were indeed up for sale on Amazon marketplace. Amazon says that all the child sex dolls have now been taken down. Amazon marketplace is an area for third-party retailers to sell their products. Amazon is not the direct seller but offers the platform for thousands of sellers to sell their products and pay for a spot on the site. The e-commerce site said in a statement: " All marketplace sellers must follow our selling guid...

President Trump launched a new attack on Amazon on Thursday accusing the e-commerce giant of paying low taxes and keeping more retailers in the cities out of jobs. The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos who also owns Amazon had recently run an editorial with the headline, "Trump gives comfort to racists" before the blistering tweet. It read: "I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes and local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.) and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!" Trump claims that it"s Amazon"s fault that many retailers on the streets are struggling to make sales as many buyers turn to shop online, especially on Amazon, which is branded the largest e-commerce site. Times are changing, and the convenience that comes with shopping online cannot be over-emphasised. Online shopping accords users the benefit to...

[caption id="attachment_10702" align="alignnone" width="3888"]                                                       Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images [/caption] Amazon now second most valuable company  Amazon.com became the second most valuable publicly listed U.S. company, surpassing Google parent Alphabet Inc for the first time. Amazon the e-commerce giant’s shares rose up to  2.69 percent at $1,586.51, for a market capitalisation lifting stock market value to $768 billion. While Alphabet lost 0.39 percent, dropping its stock market value to $762 billion. Amazon"s stock has surged 81 percent over the past year, and which has increased their revenue growth as most people’s shopping has moved online and businesses has shifted their computing operations to the cloud, where Amazon Web Services leads the market. Amazo...

The 2018 Harris Poll for reputation is out, see the brands that jumped and those that took a hit  According to the annual Harris Poll Reputation Quotient poll released on Tuesday, Apple (dropped to 29 th from 5 th the previous year and 2 nd in 2016) and Google parent company Alphabet (dropped to 28 th from 8 th the previous year) corporate brands took a hit this year even though another American rival Amazon continued to hold on to the top spot for the third time in a row. Elon Musk’s Tesla saw some improvement this year following the hype around it sending the red Roadster into space . Speaking to Reuters , John Gerzema, CEO of the Harris Poll said “the likely reason Apple and Google fell was that they have not introduced as many attention-grabbing products as they did in past years, such as when Google rolled out free offerings like its Google Docs word processor or Google Maps and Apple’s then-CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPod, iPhone and iPad.” ...