While in India, Amazon in line with its vision to transform the way India buys and sells, conducted its first regional workshop in Narmada to train and enable tribal entrepreneurs in Gujarat. As a part of the overall collaboration with the Gujarat Tribal Development Department, over 15% of the total population of Gujarat is tribal and consists of over 5000 artisans from across 14 districts. Through the workshop, these artisans were trained on how to sell products online and fetch an appropriate price for their unique products, is an effort to help raise the overall standard of living of these artisans.

Back in US, Amazon launches the new Alexa Echo Look, a styling device that can help users decide what to wear. It allows shoppers to take full-length photos and short videos using a hands-free camera that is voice-activated and has built-in LED lighting, depth-sensing camera, and computer vision-based background blur.

The Style Check feature combines machine-learning algorithms with advice from fashion specialists and will suggest new brands and styles inspired by the user’s personal lookbook.