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Social media platform Parler is down following Amazon Web Services' decision to suspend Parler from its cloud hosting service after Wednesday's U.S. Capitol riot.

New approach being adopted more broadly in light of Covid-19 pandemic, report says

A growing list of businesses are pausing or reviewing political contributions in response to efforts against the certification of the Electoral College and the Capitol riot by a group of Trump supporters that followed. 

Parler will likely go offline for "a while" Sunday evening given Amazon Web Services' decision to suspend the upstart social media platform after Wednesday's U.S. Capitol riot, executives said Sunday.

“We cannot be complicit in more bloodshed and violent attacks on democracy,” they wrote.

Amazon sellers of 409 items reportedly raised the prices by more than 20% last year.

The online giant has more than 75,000 workers in the Seattle area, its main headquarters. Amazon has more than 1,000 employees each in Arlington, across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., where it is establishing a second headquarters, and in Nashville, where the company is building an operations center. It plans to have at least 5,000 employees in each region within five years.

Should the Senate come under Democratic control, this would be viewed as a negative for the Big Tech companies, such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, one analyst believes.

Seattle-based Amazon has been working to deliver most of its packages itself and rely less on UPS, the U.S. Postal Service and other carriers.

Several drone companies are embracing this disruptive delivery channel, enabling consumers to receive drone deliveries directly to their homes. 

Chalk up another win for the world's richest man — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has topped the list for the largest charitable donation of 2020. 

The not-for-profit, health care-focused entity was created three years ago to bring together the resources of the three major companies in order to create better health care solutions for their U.S. employees and families while reducing the overall costs. 

Founded in 2016, Wondery is one of several audio startups that blossomed in recent years as podcasting caught on with advertisers and listeners. Wondery is known for its gritty, narrative-driven podcasts that apply cinematic sound design to nonfiction stories.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday dedicated his aerospace company Blue Origin's landing platform ship to his mother.

Saturday’s NFL game between the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals drew about 11.2 million total viewers for at least part of the game, which was the league’s first to appear almost exclusively on streaming platforms, according to reports.