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E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly shut down its “AmazonSmile” charity donation program as part of its ongoing cost-cutting measures.

On average, 1,600 tech workers have been laid off every single day in 2023 according to a recent report. The ongoing Silicon Valley slump has caused the tech Masters of the Universe including Facebook, Amazon, and Salesforce to lead the way in cutting high-paid tech employees.

E-commerce giant Amazon has failed in its recent efforts to overturn a union vote at its JFK8 facility in Staten Island.

Testers for the popular Roomba automated vacuum cleaner made by iRobot have stated that they feel misled after intimate photos of them ended up on Facebook. One woman found pictures of herself sitting on the toilet, never imaging her robot vacuum would violate her privacy. The pictures were reportedly posted to social media by Venezuelan gig workers.

E-commerce giant Amazon has begun rolling out drone deliveries in two towns in California and Texas, the company confirmed late last week.

Federal prosecutors have charged two men with allegedly taking part in a spree of swatting attacks against over a dozen owners of compromised Amazon Ring home security cameras. The hackers made fake emergency calls, then used the compromised Amazon doorbells to taunt responding police.

According to a recent report from the MIT Technology Review, a woman’s Roomba robot vacuum cleaner recently took photos of her on the toilet and somehow the photos ended up on Facebook, shared by gig workers in a foreign country.

A contract worker with a gun stopped an armed attacker who shot and wounded one individual at an Amazon facility in Chandler, Arizona. 

Amazon’s “The Rings of Power” series is doubling down on its wokeness by hiring an all-female directing team for season two, the filming of which is already underway in the U.K.

An outsourcing firm with Fortune 500 clients hired foreign H-1B visa workers for Information Technology (IT) jobs over qualified Americans, a Department of Justice (DOJ) settlement reveals.

Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to big tech companies demanding documents relating to their censorship practices.

The high-stakes fight over the Eagle Act outsourcing bill now has a simple battle line: The West Coast tech investors and pro-migration progressives versus everyone else.

Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Wednesday, accusing the tech giant of deceiving its customer base and “stealing” tips from delivery drivers.

Bernard Hill, the actor who played King Théoden in Peter Jackson’s seminal The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has slammed Amazon’s controversial The Rings of Power series as a mere cash-grab, “not like the real thing”.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has explained why he hasn’t pulled an antisemitic documentary from the company’s Prime Video store despite mounting pressure from celebrities and news media — neglecting to mention the company’s history of removing other controversial films from

Amazon Studios is turning the Sam Bankman-Fried FTX cryptocurrency scandal into a limited drama series, with Disney-Marvel veterans Joe and Anthony Russo set to produce and direct.

Amazon workers around the world are reportedly planning to strike during Black Friday, one of the e-commerce giant’s business time periods, demanding that the company “pays fairly and ceases awful, unsafe practices.” Thousands have reportedly already walked out in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.

Tech giant Amazon is gutting the internal team developing its Alexa home voice assistant, according to recent reports. One former employee calls Alexa a  “colossal failure of imagination,” adding “it was a wasted opportunity.”

Amazon plans to cut approximately 10,000 workers starting as soon as this week according to reports.

Amazon founder and multibillionaire Jeff Bezos recently announced that he plans to give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime. His charitable donations will go to environmental charities and other leftist causes, as he has already committed a portion of his net worth to the “Bezos Earth Fund.”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), along with the Brooklyn Nets, sent a letter to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos requesting the film at the center of the Kyrie Irving controversy be removed from the platform, or provide additional context along with the film, according to The Athletic. 

The Biden Administration’s FTC and DOJ have signaled an aggressive antitrust strategy against Big Tech, but there are growing concerns that the efforts are being redirected, not against monopolies but against smaller companies trying to compete with them.

An Amazon delivery driver is dead after a possible dog attack on Monday in Excelsior Springs, Missouri.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told analysts that the tech giant plans to slow the pace of hiring after reporting the company’s fifth consecutive quarter of declining sales growth. Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. have dropped by more than 9 percent in intraday trading.

Data collected through workplace inspections at Amazon warehouse facilities found that the company’s pace of work greatly increases the risk of injury for its employees. Workplace regulators reportedly say that the risk of debilitating muscle and joint injuries is off the charts.

FedEx is shutting down its robotic same-day delivery service. A human in a FedEx uniform will now be delivering those packages instead. According to a leaked memo, “Roxo” the robot “did not meet necessary near-term value requirements.”

Amazon’s turnover rate is extremely high and it costs the company $8 billion annually, according to leaked documents. 

Amazon’s woke (and boring) reimagining of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Rings universe is bleeding viewers when it should be snowballing.

Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok is planning to mimic Amazon by establishing its own product fulfillment centers in the United States, signifying the company’s dedication to e-commerce as its next major revenue stream.

Amazon is facing walkouts and strikes during its “Prime Day” sale season, as the employees who handle the massive amount of packages that fly through the company’s facilities demand better pay, fair treatment, and an end to retaliatory behavior.

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — which was able to garner enough votes in April to create the first U.S. union at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York — is now trying to do the same with another Amazon facility near Albany, the capital of New York State.

More than 2,600 federal officials either own or have traded stock in companies their agencies oversee, according to a damning report by the Wall Street Journal. 

Tim Forte, an Amazon analyst, says he fell asleep while watching the company’s billion-dollar “Rings of Power” boondoggle.

A new survey of the top 20 brands that Generation Z adults have favorable views on shows that Google holds the top two spots among the younger generation, with the tech giant and Google-owned YouTube sitting at the top of the list.

E-commerce giant Amazon is closing all but one of its U.S.-based customer call centers in a bid to cut costs, as the ongoing economic slump continues to impact the tech sector.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and five members of the House of Representatives are calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Amazon’s proposed acquisition of iRobot, the company that produces the popular Roomba cleaning robots.