Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, reporting on Amazon, e-commerce and mobile payments. He previously worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and got his start at ...

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 ...

The idea seemed simple: If you find yourself regularly ordering the same thing from Amazon — coffee, laundry detergent, whatever — why not replace the whole ordering process with a button you put ...

CNET's Ben Fox Rubin reported that Amazon will stop selling its Dash buttons globally. He writes: One of the concepts that best captures the quirky imagination of the world's largest online retailer ...

Amazon has officially killed one of its more perplexing products: the Dash button. Literally just a single button next to a brand’s logo on a rounded bit of plastic, the Dash button was for people who ...