Amazon
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Amazon’s new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify.
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Jeff Bezos is retiring, and will go down as one of the great CEO’s in tech history, in part because of how he transformed Amazon into a tech company in every respect.
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Amazon.com was showing signs of being a Day Two company, including the alleged manipulation of search. There is reason, though, to be optimistic that the company has gotten back to Day One. Plus, where are…
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Money is made at chokepoints, and the most valuable chokepoints are operating systems; Amazon is building exactly that with Alexa.
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Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone’s benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
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AWS has long been a question mark when it comes to Amazon: it’s a good idea, and it makes money, but like it’s parent company, will it ever be profitable? The revelation that AWS is…
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An Interview with Michael Morton About AI E-Commerce
An interview with Michael Morton about AI-driven e-commerce, and why this is both Amazon’s category to lose and a threat — and a big opportunity for Walmart and Shopify.
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Amazon Earnings, AWS and OpenAI, Did Amazon Solve Groceries?
Amazon says the constraint right now is power, not chips; it’s giving plenty of the latter to OpenAI. Then, Amazon solves groceries by getting faster tat delivering everything else.
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Walmart on ChatGPT, Walmart (and Amazon) Motivations, Spotify Podcasts on Netflix
Walmart joins ChatGPT Instant Checkout; will Amazon be next? Then, Spotify and Netflix form the anti-YouTube alliance.
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Paradigm Shifts and the Winner’s Curse
When paradigms change, previous winners have the hardest time adjusting; that is why AI might be a challenge for Apple and Amazon
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Nike on Amazon; Nike’s Disastrous Pivot; Inevitability, Intentionality, and Amazon
Nike executed a disastrous pivot over recent years, away from physical retail to D2C. Now they have no choice but to embrace Amazon, but that might be the best thing that could happen to them.
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Microsoft Earnings, Microsoft’s Core Capability, Amazon Earnings
Microsoft and Amazon are approaching AI differently, in ways that reflect their core capabilities.