Amazon suffers tech crashes and strikes during Prime Day bonanza


Amazon.com Inc kicked off its big Prime Day sales promotion with technical glitches on its website and app, threatening its 36-hour sales extravaganza. 

Trouble on the site spiked just as the event began at 3pm Eastern time July 16, but declined significantly within a couple of hours, according to Downdetector.com, which monitors web trouble. Shoppers were expected to spend US$3.4bil (RM13.70bil) on Amazon during the promotion, up more than 40% from last year’s Prime Day, according to Coresight Research. 

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