Source: Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon's video ambitions (Theo Wayt/The Information) Read more
Amazon's new reality show Ring Nation featuring footage from its Ring home security cameras is the company's latest effort to normalize its surveillance network (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE) Read more
Adobe: US online sales during Amazon's Prime Day jumped 8.5% YoY to nearly $12B; Prime members bought 300M+ items, or 100K products per minute (Uday Sampath/Reuters) Read more
Amazon's Prime Day shopping event, set for July 12-13, appears to be more low-key than previous years, focused on discounting Amazon-made products (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal) Read more
A look at Amazon's fight with China-based sellers of generic items trying to game its algorithm to develop Marketplace brands and get the "Amazon's Choice" tag (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) Read more
Internal memo: two of Amazon's top Black executives, SVP of logistics warehouses Alicia Boler Davis and VP of transportation services Dave Bozeman, are leaving (Bloomberg) Read more