Jeff Bezos

Amazon’s sales surged amid the coronavirus, but costs related to the pandemic ate away at the online retailer’s profits, the company told investors Thursday.

Nine Amazon protesters vandalized the road in front of Jeff Bezos' Washington, D.C., home.

As one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon has become a lifeline to many shoppers during the global lockdown. But the company is also grappling with delivery delays and mounting complaints from workers who worry about contagion while on the job.

The crisis has brought the global economy to a near standstill.

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, 34 of the nation’s wealthiest billionaires, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk, have seen their net worth increase by tens of millions of dollars.

After years of working almost exclusively on long-term projects and pushing day-to-day management to lower-level executives, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is focusing on the immediate problems facing Amazon amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the New York Times.

The median home value in the Big Apple is $652,307, while median monthly rent is $2,900.

Regular worldwide testing across all industries would "help keep people safe and help get the economy back up and running," Jeff Bezos wrote to shareholders.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos thanked employees working amid the novel coronavirus pandemic at Whole Foods and a fulfillment center Wednesday.

Five Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday wrote Amazon.com Inc to raise concern about its firing of a worker who protested warehouse operations during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters.

All 2,095 billionaires are worth about $8 trillion, which is $700 billion less than they did in 2019, according to Forbes.

Bezos' gift was the largest single donation Feeding America has ever received.

Amazon workers in Staten Island staged a walkout on Monday.

The country's most successful companies have stepped up to the plate with offers of cash, supplies and other forms of relief.