Amazon has enjoyed lots of fanfare and curiosity from the openings of its new Amazon Books physical bookstores. But what those locations haven’t seemed to bring in quite yet is sales. As part of its third quarter earnings results, Amazon for the first time reported its physical store sales, mostly to account for its purchase …

No, Amazon isn’t quite done growing. The biggest online retailer in the world managed to blow away Wall Street estimates for its latest quarter, thanks again to sharply higher revenue (hello, Prime Day!) and its superbly profitable Amazon Web Services cloud-computing business. That the company can post a higher profit despite its huge investments in international markets, drone deliveries, new …

It’s been a little more than a year since Facebook launched its Marketplace platform. Now, the social media giant says it’s time to expand it. Marketplace, which lets people sell new and used stuff locally, is adding more detailed US listings of used cars, one of the categories Facebook said has been most active. In the coming weeks, the platform …

There’s now even more proof Apple’s new iPhone X will have very limited supply and be very tough to get. The tech titan told manufacturers to lower the accuracy of the phone’s facial recognition system, called Face ID, to speed up production, according to Bloomberg. Apple disputed this report. Also on the podcast, Amazon unveiled a new in-home delivery service called …

One of the first things to greet you at the Boxed warehouse floor in Union, New Jersey, is a four-story-tall gray robot employees call the Opex.  It doesn’t have any arms and legs — it looks more like a massive metal-and-glass briefcase. Inside its glass-encased belly are 1,400 gray bins filled with 700 kinds of consumables, like vitamins and household …

The new ZTE Axon M, which has two screens that fold out into one, probably won’t be your next phone. But, its design points to a potential future that’s more interesting than today’s lineup of rectangular phones, and instead offers foldable, rollable and stretchable devices. On today’s podcast, we talk about the pros and cons of this type of phone …

Facebook is great for showing off your kids and pets. Instagram is great for showing off your vacation. And Venmo is great for showing off your purchases. Venmo now wants to lean into its status as one of the few places online where it’s acceptable to talk up your latest spending habits. The PayPal-owned money-transfer service said Tuesday that starting …

Google Maps is dropping a new feature that shows you how many calories you would burn if you walked along a requested route. The feature in its iOS app, which apparently was meant to encourage walking instead of driving, also shows users how many mini cupcakes they would burn from their walk. But, this feature received a harsh response on …

These days, Amazon vacuums up most of the attention when it comes to retail innovation. Voice commerce? Check. Drone delivery? Check. Automated warehouses? Check. But more than any other rival this year, Walmart seems to be challenging Amazon with aggressive efforts meant to show that it, too, is dreaming up new ways for people to shop. At The Wall Street …

Google on Tuesday honored Mexican-America singer Selena Quintanilla with her own Google Doodle. The logo placed above every Google search comes out the same day Quintanilla released her first studio album, self-titled “Selena,” in 1989. The Doodle includes a short YouTube video highlighting her life and music. Born in Lake Jackson, Texas, on April 16, 1971, Quintanilla started developing her …