Amazon, Facebook, Google and four other top technology giants spent more than $65 million to lobby the U.S. government last year, shelling out record-breaking amounts in some cases to try to battle back antitrust scrutiny and new regulatory threats.
Amazon is once again asking the National Labor Relations Board to direct thousands of the company's warehouse workers at an Alabama facility to cast votes in-person on whether to form a union, rather than by mail, despite the ongoing pandemic.
Amazon has shared the first trailer for Invincible . The upcoming adult animated series sees The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman and Steven Yeun reunite for another project. This time around, Yeun stars as 17-year-old Mark Grayson, who struggles to come to terms with his identity as a superhero.
The Anna Paquin-led drama is getting a second life, right as some audiences might be most receptive to its dark, acidic sense of humor. Last spring, with film screens dimmed and a disproportionate number of folks left with extra time to fill, the TV world was ready to be an escape vehicle.
( As you've probably heard by now, on Wednesday, Amazon.com NASDAQ:AMZN) sent a letter to new U.S. President Joe Biden offering "to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration."
Schaumburg's long-anticipated Amazon Fresh grocery store will open on Thursday, Jan. 28, becoming only the second to begin operating in Illinois. The approximately 45,000-square-foot store is located in the former Babies R Us space at 16-A E. Golf Road.
When attempting to co-opt a meme, it's perhaps best to first make sure the focus of said meme doesn't absolutely despise you. Or, you could take the Amazon approach. On Friday morning, the Amazon Pay Twitter account attempted to get in on the two-day old meme of Senator Bernie Sanders sitting alone at the inauguration of now-president Joe Biden.
Amazon Fresh, the online shopping behemoth's high-tech grocery store, plans to open its second location in the Chicago area next week. The 45,000-square-foot store will open Thursday at 16 E. Golf Road in Schaumburg, in a former Babies R Us space, Amazon said Friday.
Following her stirring reading of the poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's inauguration in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Amanda Gorman's three books have skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists nationwide, despite the fact they are not scheduled to be published for months.
Can Amazon Make It? That was the headline plastered on the front page of BusinessWeek magazine in July 2000. Amazon's future looked bleak after the tech bubble burst earlier that year. The online shopping pioneer was hemorrhaging cash, forcing it to cut 15% of its workforce. Top fund managers cut Amazon from their portfolios.
A growing contingent of big-name companies - including Walmart, Starbucks and Microsoft - are teaming up with local governments and medical providers to get coronavirus shots in more people's arms. The public-private efforts come as President Biden has outlined his plans to combat the virus that has killed more than 400,000 Americans, which includes a goal to administer 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days of his administration.
Three vulnerabilities in the Amazon Kindle e-reader would have allowed a remote attacker to execute code and run it as root - paving the way for siphoning money from unsuspecting users.
The European Parliament has reportedly invited Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to a big tech hearing in Brussels in February or March. The hearing would focus on looking at the dominance those companies hold Reuters reported, citing the invitation sent to the chief executives.
When the health system first collapsed in the Amazonian city of Manaus, Brazil, and COVID-19 victims were buried in mass graves, the mayor sent a desperate appeal to then-President Donald Trump and other world leaders. "We are doing our best, but I tell you, it's still very little in [the] face of the oncoming barbarism" said Arthur Virgílio Neto in a video message.
Last February, I compared (( Shopify NYSE:SHOP) to Amazon NASDAQ:AMZN). I claimed Amazon's stable e-commerce and cloud businesses made it a safer investment, and that Shopify's stock was "too hot to handle." But since I wrote that article, Shopify's stock has soared nearly 150% as Amazon's stock has advanced less than 60%.
We've rounded up Amazon's best tablet deals that are happening now, which include the best-selling Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet on sale for just $59.99 (was $89.99). That's a $30 discount and only $5 more than the all-time low Black Friday price.
More than 100 Amazon employees were evacuated when a fire broke out late Tuesday in a warehouse in Middlesex County. The fire began about 11 p.m. inside the Amazon distribution center at 22 Hightstown-Cranbury Station Road in Cranbury, according to a worker at the building.
Three charities that appear to be affiliated with the Oath Keepers militia movement are included on a list of nonprofits that Amazon users can choose to make donations to as part of the retailer's Smile charitable giving program.
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in journalist Eli Sanders' "Wild West" newsletter, which covers internet-related legal issues. Subscribe here.] The social media platform Parler marketed itself as a place where Americans could "speak freely" and avoid the fear of being "deplatformed."
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners LLP (CIRP) data shows that as of Dec. 31, 2020, more than half of Amazon.com Inc. Prime members (52%) had an annual membership, up from 49% just three months earlier. Typically during the holidays, Amazon will see a spike in monthly Prime members as shoppers seek to take advantage of the program's perks, such as free shipping, without making a long-term commitment.