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An advertisement for the popular Amazon Studios series The Man in the High Castle aired during the 70th Emmy Awards Sunday. The advert depicts the drama’s lead character states “we are the resistance” paralleling a common phrase used by anti-Trump

Citi Research said in a note to clients that Amazon should split the company into separate retail and Amazon Web Services companies to avoid regulation, according to a report.

Saint Louis University has turned heads this week in the aftermath of major layoffs by announcing that it had purchased thousand of Amazon Echo devices for students.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly “exploring a potential investigation” of Big Tech social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

Amazon received a patent in 2016 for a system which would place employees in cages to maintain robots. According to the Boston Herald, “Illustrations that accompany the patent, which was granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in 2016,

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) threw some not-so-subtle shade at Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday when he introduced a bill that would allow the government to charge big corporations for the federal welfare programs its low-income workers use.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie made a $10 million donation to a Super PAC aiming to help military veterans run for elected office.

A team of researchers has revealed a potentially dangerous vulnerability in Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson explained how corporate America was using the social welfare safety net to subsidize at taxpayer expense its employees without having to pay a higher wage. According to Fox News

President Donald Trump has suggested major technology firms such as Amazon and Facebook could be in a “very anti-trust situation,” but declined to comment on whether they should be broken up. 

Amazon has confirmed it’s paying employees to say good things about working for the company on Twitter in an effort to combat bad press about work  conditions in its warehouses.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and executives from massive tech conglomerates have teamed up to fight President Trump’s upcoming tariffs on Chinese imports.

Citizens of Gainesville, VA, are reportedly being made to pay for Amazon’s $172 million power line installation, after local protesters successfully fought the lines being installed through their properties and a Civil War battlefield.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti referred to the City of Angels as “the east coast of China” on Thursday while speaking to CNBC about his city’s bid to land Amazon’s second headquarters.

Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce have launched a campaign for restrictions on data sharing between hospitals to be dropped.

Reports this week suggest that Amazon has plans to open a health clinic for its employees in Seattle.

Gun groups that posted 3D print files for guns and gun parts claim they have been censored by Facebook and Amazon.

Dr. Robert Epstein, the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and a veteran of Breitbart News’ “Masters of the Universe” town hall on Internet freedom, joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss the simultaneous banning of Infowars host Alex Jones by most major social media platforms.

According to a recent report, Amazon’s facial recognition tool has mistakenly identified criminals on the FBI’s Most Wanted List as famous celebrities.

According to a disclosure filed this week, Amazon paid less than £4.6 million on taxes in the United Kingdom last year — dropping by almost half from 2016 — even as profits in the country tripled.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appeared on Breitbart News Saturday recently alongside host Matt Boyle to discuss the Masters of the Universe in Silicon Valley.

A female Amazon employee was left homeless and living in a warehouse carpark after suffering an injury at a fulfillment center in Haslet, Texas. She says, “I work for the world’s richest man and I live in my car.”

The architect of a widely panned ad campaign in 2016 pushing nude photographs of now First Lady Melania Trump has sprung to the defense of a bill backed by Amazon that would nationalize control of the music industry in Washington.

Amazon is the leading online e-commerce marketplace, but many of its users aren’t aware that many of their purchases on the platform aren’t as anonymous as they think.

Amazon’s senior vice president Russell Grandinetti has indicated that the online commerce giant remains unconcerned by its devastating impact on the retail sector and the millions of jobs that go with it. 

Amazon is at the forefront of a well-funded, powerful, Silicon Valley-led push to force the federal government to nationalize the music industry, thereby creating a system where the government props up certain companies — such as Amazon — to be beneficiaries of and have control over, while also profiting from, music production.

Easily the dumbest article I’ve read this year was one by a posh liberal columnist in a high end political journal explaining why freedom of speech wasn’t under threat in the West. Anyone who argued otherwise, he claimed, was a “grade A chocolate-coated plonker.”

Amazon’s facial recognition tool, which the company sells to government agencies and other customers, reportedly misidentified 28 members of Congress as police suspects.

Forbes deleted an article this week about closing public libraries in favor of buying books on Amazon after it sparked a backlash online.

84 percent of people surveyed underestimated how much they pay for streaming subscription services such as Amazon Prime, Spotify, and Netflix.

President Donald Trump took aim at Amazon Monday morning, raising the possibility that the company could face antitrust legal problems and accusing it of using the U.S. Post Office as a “delivery boy.”

President Donald Trump dismissed reports he was privately frustrated with North Korea’s slow progress on denuclearization, insisting he was “very happy.”

Amazon’s manager in the United Kingdom is reportedly planning for “civil unrest” within two weeks of a ‘No Deal’ Brexit.

Amazon faced serious website issues on one of the site’s most important days of the year — Prime Day, when many items are heavily discounted.

Amazon, the online retailing giant founded by Jeff Bezos, is fast approaching capturing 50 percent of the U.S. e-commerce market, according to data research firm eMarketer. 

British anti-Trump activists launched a campaign to push Green Day’s hit 2004 rock song “American Idiot” to the top of the charts, despite the fact that the song was inspired by former president George W. Bush and the Iraq War.