The patent is for autonomous robotic bees, technically called pollination drones, that could potentially pollinate crops just like real bees.

CarePass members get free delivery on most prescriptions and online purchases, access to a pharmacist helpline, a 20 percent discount on all CVS-branded products and a monthly $10 coupon.

Amazon is offering free shipping during the holidays for all US customers on hundreds of millions of items.

Shopify has announced the addition of Venmo as a payment option at checkout for its 600,000 merchant clients.

‘Check Out With Me’ will enable customers to pay for items directly with associates using hand-held devices equipped with a Bluetooth receipt printer.

New perks include same-day and one-day shipping for free on over 1 million items, spending analytics, buying guides.

Jet.com's newly launched City Grocery offering is now selling Blue Apron meal kits, featuring menu offerings exclusive to Jet customers. This is the first time they've been available through an online retailer.

Just 20% of shoppers who placed an order on the site in the fourth quarter of 2017 placed another order a quarter later, according to data from Edison Trends.

The Prime Day outage was caused by Amazon moving its database for an Ohio warehouse off of Oracle's to its own technology.

The event is in its 10th year and now a monthlong shopping festival, and the company says this will be its biggest ever.