Launched in 2015, the gadgets allowed customers to order particular items at the touch of a button. Dozens of brands offered one.

R.I.P., Dash button, we hardly knew you. Or needed you, for that matter. The Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) device that allowed you to reorder individual products at the touch of a button is no more. The e ...

Thanks to the Internet, shopping has become increasingly convenient. Amazon and other Internet retailers have extended this convenience to household items, infringing on the usual territory of grocery ...

This story is part of a collection of pieces on how we spend money today. Amazon’s Dash Buttons were either the pinnacle of gimmickry—a bunch of plastic purchase-dongles that served no use except to ...

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, ...

A court ruling classifies the Dash buttons as a violation of consumer protection legislation in Germany because they don't show what price will be paid for a product at the point at which they are ...

Amazon’s first foray into smart home technology, the Dash button, is officially defunct, as the company announced it would discontinue the functionality of all existing buttons later this summer.

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon Dash Buttons are finally tackling the most important human needs: toys. The online retailer has added 50 new brands to its press-to-order Amazon Prime program. The latest Dash Buttons include ...

SEATTLE, Wash. (WLS) -- Amazon is offering its Prime members a free shopping device called Dash. It's a small Wi-Fi-enabled button that you hang in your home. For example, when you need more detergent ...