Employees ask Amazon to sever contracts with Israeli defense forces after conflict with Hamas: Report
Employees at Amazon are reportedly asking the company to acknowledge what has happened to the Palestinian people following the deadly conflict in the Middle East, including by asking the company to end business contracts with Israeli defense forces.
Amazon nears deal to buy MGM Studios
Amazon.com Inc. is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion, said people familiar with the matter, a pact that would turn a film operation founded in the silent era into a streaming asset for the e-commerce giant.
Amazon officially drops mask mandates for warehouse workers
Unless required by state or local laws, any Amazon employee who is two weeks past their final required dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is allowed to stop covering up.
Amazon, Google, Apple employees voice support for Palestinians
Employees at Amazon, Google and Apple have voiced support for Palestinians in public posts and letters and are asking their employers to do the same.
Amazon halts construction at Connecticut site after 7th ‘noose’ found
The first six were discovered at the work site during the last week of April.
Amazon.com faces five new racial, gender bias lawsuits
Amazon.com Inc was hit on Wednesday with five new lawsuits by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles and accused the online retailer of gender bias, racial bias or both.
Amazon lifts mask requirement for fully vaccinated warehouse workers
Amazon will lift its mask requirement for warehouse workers effective Monday, the ecommerce giant announced.
1 in 10 police departments can now access videos from millions of consumers' Ring security cameras
Nearly one in 10 U.S. police departments have access to videos from millions of privately owned Amazon Ring devices.
Amazon extends June 2020 moratorium on police use of facial recognition software until further notice
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Tuesday it is extending until further notice a moratorium it imposed last year on police use of its facial recognition software.
Amazon considering buying MGM Studios: reports
Amazon is in talks to purchase film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Jeff Bezos' Washington DC, NYC homes targeted in pro-tax millionaire group's protests
The effort, which comes on Tax Day, is organized by Patriotic Millionaires, a group of individuals with annual incomes over $1 million or assets over $5 million who support raising taxes on the wealthy.
Massive database of fake Amazon reviews exposed
Buyer beware. A major source of fake Amazon reviews lurks out there.
Amazon to create 10,000 jobs in Britain this year
Amazon will create 10,000 new permanent jobs in the United Kingdom in 2021, taking its total workforce in the country to more than 55,000, it said on Friday.
Voice of Amazon's Alexa reportedly revealed
The voice behind Amazon's cloud-based artificial intelligence service “Alexa” may have just been identified.
Amazon's Bezos banned PowerPoint presentations at meetings, new book reveals
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos does not allow PowerPoint presentations during company meetings, according to a new book about the company.
Bezos, Musk had ‘friendly’ meetings about space before Blue Origin, SpaceX ‘budding rivalry’: new book
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk had “friendly” meetings discussing space exploration before a rivalry formed.
EU court scraps Amazon's $303M EU tax order
Europe's second-top court on Thursday annulled an EU order to Amazon to pay about 250 million euros ($303.28 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg, part of an EU crackdown against unfair tax deals between multinationals and EU countries.
Amazon files lawsuit to dismantle illegal advertising scheme targeting customers
The Seattle-based company is trying to hold the bad actors accountable for allegedly creating fraudulent text message campaigns using Amazon's name to ultimately drive traffic to other advertisers or websites.
4-year-old orders 918 SpongeBob popsicles on Amazon for $2,600
Four-year-old Noah Bryant, from Brooklyn, New York, ordered $2,618.85 worth of Spongebob popsicles from his mom’s Amazon account.
Amazon’s Bezos said then-candidate Trump ‘would be a scary prez' in email, new book says
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told Jeff Carney, the company's senior vice president of Global Corporate Affairs in a 2015 email that then-presidential candidate Donald Trump “would be a scary prez."


















