The bar chart below helps to explain what happened. Amazon’s Web Services, or AWS, did not start to make much of an impact on the company’s financial results until around that time.

All of that begs the question: Why would a major business like Amazon keep adding perks to Prime at no cost? Well, as this chart from Statista shows, it’s because Prime users tend to make up the ...

has steadily put Amazon in a leading position within the Internet of Things and the burgeoning consumer market for artificial intelligence. As this chart from Statista shows, the Echo only gained ...