• Amazon Steps Further Into the Integrated Home Business with “Ring” Acquisition

    Amazon Steps Further Into the Integrated Home Business with “Ring” Acquisition

    Amazon is making further moves into the home security business.  Amazon in the process of acquiring Ring, which is the company that makes smart doorbells.  If you’re not familiar with the product, basically Ring is a doorbell that also has a camera on it.  The camera allows you to see who is at your door. …

  • Amazon Rewards Give You Cash Back When You Shop at Whole Foods

    Amazon Rewards Give You Cash Back When You Shop at Whole Foods

    If you’ve been to Whole Foods lately, you might have noticed that they’ve cut some of their prices.  That’s in large part due to Amazon acquiring Whole Foods.  But they’ve also rolled up its Treasure Truck deals service to Whole Foods locations and they’ve started delivering Whole Foods groceries through Prime.  This is all great…

  • Pulse Labs Gets a great new Investment

    Pulse Labs Gets a great new Investment

    Do you own an Amazon Echo or one of the Google Home devices?  If so, how are you using it?  Amazon thinks that you’re not using any new voice apps after you try them out.  And they’re not wrong.  I can attest to that myself.  Which is where Pulse Labs come into effect.  Pulse Labs…