After four years' service Amazon amzn has retired the Dash button. The branded devices were meant to make it easier to reorder frequently used products — you could stick a Tide button to your washing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chris Walton is a former Target executive turned retail journalist. Amazon announced that it will kill its famed Dash Button, ...

Amazon Dash buttons were the ultimate single purpose networked device; it really can’t get much simpler than a push button that sends a single message to a fixed endpoint. It was an experiment in ...

When Amazon launched its oh-so-tempting Dash buttons it was a revolutionary idea that made reordering items that you buy regularly as simple as pushing the button. Normally you’d have to go to the ...

In what feels like the first good use for an Amazon Dash Button, a programmer hacked his button to donate $5 to the ACLU whenever he wishes. In a post published to Medium, Nathan Pryor detailed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon’s Dash Buttons really are a stroke of genius. Each Dash Buttons takes a small piece of Amazon’s website and moves it out of ...

Between Prime Air, buying Whole Foods, and nettingthe rights to stream Thursday Night Football, theres no doubt that Amazons ambitions go beyond its online storefront. Nonetheless, the companys ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

Some of the jargony terms used to describe the new ways people shop these days include mobile commerce, social commerce and voice commerce. Perhaps another trend will be called “click commerce.” ...

Amazon has added more than 60 new brands to the its Dash Button one-touch automated ordering program, with the new additions including Bai, Cheez-It, Folgers, Fresh Kitty, Meow Mix, Milk Bone, ...

Amazon's Dash Buttons are something of an oddity. Does anyone really need a dedicated piece of hardware to buy a particular brand of cat litter or baby wipes? Just how hard is it to go to a shop, or ...