Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Introducing the Echo Everything If you didn't already know, Amazon wants its Alexa voice assistant to be everywhere -- in your [...]
3PM Solutions’ Chief Product Officer Jon Derkits was featured in a recent Wired article, offering insight into Amazon's information security as it relates to developer access to the Marketplace Web Services API: "Data privacy is a hot topic in the current sociopolitical climate, and Amazon doesn’t want to be on the bad end of that conversation,” [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... The Cost of Doing Business In an update of a study performed this time last year, Recode reported that 11 percent [...]
By Rob Dunkel It has been a tumultuous year for Amazon. The eCommerce giant has been in the news often, and for all the wrong reasons. To list all of them would be veritable alphabet soup of criticisms: Anti-competitive practices, Bogus “Amazon’s Choice” badging, Counterfeit products, Defective third-party products, Extreme warehouse working conditions, Fake product reviews…and so on. The main focus is [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Amazon is Investing in Warehouses Amazon is in the midst of a BIG capital investment cycle, announcing earlier this year that [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... How to Write Amazon Product Titles That Drive Clicks TL,DR version: Be concise. Slightly longer version: Product titles are your first [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Reviewjacking on Amazon If you didn't know by now, Amazon is filled with sketchy reviews. In fact, the problem is so [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... A David Vs. Goliath Story Amidst antitrust investigations by the DOJ and FTC, Amazon now faces a new threat: its own [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Sold By Amazon: The Right Program At The Wrong Time? As first reported by CNBC, in late July, Amazon quietly launched [...]
On July 10, 2019, the Department of Commerce (DOC) issued a request in the Federal Register seeking comments from various stakeholders on the state of counterfeit and pirated goods trafficking through online third-party marketplaces and recommendations for curbing the trafficking in such counterfeit and pirated goods. 3PM Solutions was invited to respond to the DOC request [...]
