Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
1 — Amazon launches a home shopping channel with Amazon Live.
Amazon has announced the launch of its own home shopping channel with live streams called Amazon Live—currently only available on its website. It’s not limited to one product at a time and doesn’t feature count-down timers to pressure sales like its cable competitors do. (Source: eSeller Café)
Why this is important for your business:
In addition to the potential opportunities that Amazon resellers now have with this new online channel, the company also introduced a new app for U.S. sellers who use IOS devices. Called Amazon Live Creator, it enables smaller brands to produce live programming from a mobile device to showcase their products and answer viewers’ questions. These new technologies should definitely help Amazon’s smaller merchants increase awareness and hopefully sell more products.
2 — LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service.
What, another one? In addition to Amazon’s new “live” service, LinkedIn launched a beta version of…
