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An Illinois mother mourns the loss of her son after he and five others died when a tornado rampaged through the Amazon warehouse in Illinois.

Jeff Bezos responded to a tornado that resulted in the deaths of at least six people at an Amazon warehouse after its collapse in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday. Bezos acknowledged the tragedy after being slammed by social media users who commented on his initial silence.

Italy’s competition authority announced on Thursday that it has fined Amazon roughly $1.3 billion (€1.129 billion), alleging that the company “has harmed competing operators” by abusing its dominant market position and pushing third-party sellers to use Amazon’s logistics service Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA).

Amazon Suffers Massive Web Services Crash, Shutting Down Services Like Disney+

Democrats and billionaire executives for giant tech corporations are urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to keep illegal aliens, enrolled in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, in American jobs. 

A new browser extension called Amazon Brand Detector reveals just how many products sold on Amazon are produced by brands that are owned by Amazon or are exclusive to the e-commerce Masters of the Universe.

Cyber Monday online sales have reportedly fallen for the first time, dropping 1.4 percent from last year to $10.7 billion, according to data released on Tuesday by Adobe Analytics. The report also indicated that out-of-stock messages on relaters’ websites were up 169 percent when compared with pre-pandemic years.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved a new union election at one of Amazon’s Alabama warehouses this week. The warehouse workers voted against unionization in April, but following complaints to the federal agency, a revote has been ordered.

The number of packages stole from people’s porch has exploded by 36 percent this year.

Climate crazies Extinction Rebellion have blockaded a number of Amazon warehouses in the UK on Black Friday, the company’s busiest day of the year.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is donating $100 million to the Obama Foundation in the wake of Amazon clashing with the Biden administration over antitrust issues.

Amazon employees in 20 countries are reportedly preparing to strike on Black Friday as part of a campaign titled “Make Amazon Pay.”

In a recent article, Wired magazine outlines how Amazon has lost control of its vast collection of user data and failed to protect its customers’ personal information from “internal threat actors,” among others.

E-commerce giant Amazon recently announced that it will no longer accept payments made with Visa credit cards issued in the UK, blaming the decision on high fees. Visa says that it is “very disappointed that Amazon is threatening to restrict consumer choice in the future.”

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stated at a recent event that he believes will most future humans will not live on Earth and will think of the planet as a protected national park that they visit as a tourist attraction.

Amazon is being sued over crashes by drivers rushing to make deliveries while following the company’s schedule. While the e-commerce giant says it is not liable, one lawsuit blames Amazon’s algorithms for a crash that paralyzed an aspiring doctor.

Glen de Vries, the billionaire founder of Medidata Solutions who went to space alongside William Shatner aboard a Blue Origin rocket, has reportedly died in a plane crash.

Amazon-backed electric vehicle maker Rivian went public this week with the largest IPO in the U.S. since 2014. The company now has a higher market value than Ford or GM despite the fact that the company has only delivered 156 vehicles so far.

Technology giant Amazon is pushing, through its lobbying organs, to keep its USPS shipping rates artificially low, an indirect taxpayer subsidy to the market-dominating online retailer that comes at the expense of both small businesses and other customers of the USPS mail service.

Amazon founder and alleged environmentalist Jeff Bezos has purchased a $78 million 14-acre private estate in Hawaii surrounded by dormant lava fields. He joins Mark Zuckerberg in investing in Hawaiian real estate as the Masters of the Universe seemingly takes over paradise

An Amazon driver is out of a job following a video appearing to showing a woman exiting out of the back door of his Amazon truck.

Amazon recently reported a surprising drop in profits in the third quarter that it expects to continue through the holiday quarter.

UK spy agencies have inked a billion-dollar deal with Amazon to host classified information on the tech giant’s cloud computing apparatus.

According to a recent report, in 2020 Amazon shipped more parcels throughout the U.S. than FedEx. Amazon now controls 21 percent of the American shipping market.

An Amazon employee group created by warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, announced that it aims to vote on unionization in the near future. The group said in a statement: “Workers are demanding Amazon to stop their union busting practices and allow workers to use their rights to organize towards collective bargaining without interference.”

A cross-dressing male Amazon driver has been charged with child porn after allegedly donning women’s clothing and a wig before going into a women’s bathroom to take photos of women and girls as young as eight years old.

Makers of apps that allow users to read and listen to the Bible and Quran, including Amazon’s Audible, announced Friday they had removed such apps from China’s Apple Store citing Chinese government “permit requirements.”

In a recent letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, five members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee allege that the company’s top executives including founder Jeff Bezos misled or possibly lied to Congress about Amazon’s business practices.

A group representing millions of Indian retailers on Thursday demanded a government investigation of Amazon.com following a Reuters report that accused the online retail behemoth of manipulating search results to privilege its own knockoff brands over Indian retail merchandise.

According to a recent report, e-commerce giant Amazon purposefully ranks its own products above other higher-rated competitors on its platform. According to an investigation by the Markup, “We found that knowing only whether a product was an Amazon brand or exclusive could predict in seven out of every 10 cases whether Amazon would place it first in search results.”

A coalition of Google and Amazon workers has published an open letter in the Guardian protesting the tech companies’ decision to supply the Israeli military and government with technology.

A recent report claims that internal Amazon documents show that the company created knockoff items and manipulated search results to promote its own product lines in India.

According to a recent report, employees at Jeff Bezos’ space exploration firm Blue Origin allege that the company promotes a toxic “bro culture” that led to mistrust, low morale, and project delays.

Amazon’s live-streaming platform Twitch recently fell victim to a major leak that exposed the site’s source code, top streamer’s earnings, and more. The company acknowledged the leak, stating: “We have learned that some data was exposed to the internet due to an error in a Twitch server configuration change that was subsequently accessed by a malicious third party. Our teams are working with urgency to investigate the incident.”

Twitch streamer and strident socialist Hasan Piker has reportedly made nearly $3 million from the Amazon-owned streaming platform since 2019 — placing him comfortably in the top one percent of earners in the United States — according to a massive leak of internal documents which disclosed streamers’ earnings.

The Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has reportedly suffered a massive data leak, which has disclosed confidential company information, as well as streamers’ earnings, with more than 100GB of data posted to the internet on Wednesday.