After many months of speculation and unending rumors, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, unveiled the Amazon Fire Phone last week.

While the phone has some interesting new features – such as a 3D display and automatic product recognition – the significance is much more likely to be in the impact it has on mobile commerce and mobile retail.
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One of the key tools for online marketing has always been A/B testing, enabling marketers to use the flexibility of the web to rapidly test and improve ads, offers, layouts, etc.

Now Amazon has announced that it is launching a new A/B testing feature on its Amazon app platform, with the goal of attracting more Android developers to bring their apps to Amazon’s platform. more»

Many a business plan has been written based on the concept of trying to insert ads into some popular consumer activity. But there is always the question – “Won’t customers object to seeing ads while they are engaged in some other activity?”

That question seems to have been answered, now that Amazon has reported that the ad-supported version of the Kindle Reader is the best selling device on the site! more»