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Appearing Tuesday on the Fox Business Network’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast, Fox Business journalist Charles Gasparino said there is intense speculation on Wall Street that CNN may be for sale and could be snapped up by Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner

Activists marched to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ California mansion Sunday to protest the company’s working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic.

E-commerce giant Amazon has released official figures on the number of coronavirus cases among its workforce, revealing that almost 20,000 U.S. employees have contracted the virus since March.

Leaked internal Amazon data obtained by Reveal News that documents injury rates in the company’s warehouses reportedly shows that the company has publicly downplayed how dangerous its warehouses are for workers and that injuries have increased since the introduction of robots to Jeff Bezos’ facilities.

The Washington Post’s editorial board issued an endorsement of Joe Biden’s White House bid on Monday, arguing the former vice president was “exceptionally well-qualified” to replace the “worst president of modern time.”

Amazon recently announced a number of new products at its annual hardware event, including a new Ring security camera drone that flys around your house recording you and your family.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that the first “Bezos Academy,” a free preschool for children from low-income families, will launch in October in a town south of Seattle.

A group of 100 Orthodox Jewish rabbis from across the United States are urging Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to end his association with the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) through its AmazonSmile charity program, citing the center’s so-called “hate map” which they say puts their community at risk.

Gen. Keith Alexander, the former chief of the NSA, has joined Amazon’s board of directors according to a recent SEC filing. Alexander was in charge of the NSA when it was revealed that the agency engaged in widespread electronic surveillance of American citizens.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who has led the United States effort to secure supply chains in response to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, is hitting back at his corporate critics. 

The federal government provided work permits to 537,000 foreign college graduates in 2019, so forcing American graduates to compete for decent jobs against migrants who gladly accept low wages and long hours in exchange for getting green cards from their employers.

E-commerce giant Amazon has announced the launch of Amazon Halo, a health and wellness tracker that the company claims can track its users’ emotions by listening to the tone of their voice.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth hit $202 billion on Wednesday, making him the first person to cross the $200 billion threshold in personal wealth.

Amazon executive Jeff Wilke, a 20-year veteran of the company, plans to retire next year, but not before completing one of his major projects — eliminating human cashiers at Whole Foods locations across the country.

Amazon Prime Video did not offer a live stream of the Republican National Convention during primetime on Monday after it livestreamed all four nights of the Democratic National Convention last week.

Amazon announced this week that it will increase its corporate workforce by several thousand employees, many of them working at an office in New York City. Despite recent efforts by large technology companies to transition to remote work during the Chinese virus pandemic, Amazon insists that there is a big benefit to working at the office.

A recent report from Wired states that independent researchers recently discovered a bug in Amazon’s Alexa devices that may have exposed users’ voice history to hackers. The company claims it has fixed the bug.

The German Federal Cartel Office is reportedly investigating e-commerce giant Amazon over allegations that the firm abused its market position during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The German government is specifically focusing on Amazon’s treatment of third-party sellers on the platform.

The president asserted that the post office is losing a “fortune” by delivering packages for Amazon at a reduced rate.

Giant tech corporations have joined a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit that seeks to overturn President Trump’s executive order halting visa programs to prioritize unemployed Americans for scarcely available jobs.

An appeals court ruled this week that e-commerce giant Amazon can be held liable in California for defective products sold on the site’s marketplace by third-party sellers. 

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly in talks with the largest mall owners in America to turn retail spaces into fulfillment centers.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth has reportedly passed $100 billion for the first time after the social media giant’s stock price hit a record based on optimism about the release of its TikTok competitor, Reels. Only Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates also have fortunes worth more than $100 billion.

The attorneys general of New York and California will investigate the market dominance of Amazon and its online marketplace in partnership with the FTC.

“I actually agree with this,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Too much income disparity. Changes must be made, and soon!”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pressing Google CEO Sundar Pichai for answers regarding the search giant’s meddling in the U.S. presidential election after an explosive Breitbart News investigation published this week proved the company is blocking search traffic from Breitbart News and other conservative websites.

A recent report from Business Insider states that claims by the CEOs of Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook that their companies are not “that big” is undermined by the massive profits that the tech titans generate.

The most powerful tech CEOs in the country, representing Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel to discuss their market dominance and censorship yesterday. Here are some of the most misleading answers the CEOs gave Congress.

MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of the world’s wealthiest man, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, is donating $1.7 billion to Historically Black Colleges and other groups including LGBT causes.

During yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, the CEOs of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook were unable to agree on whether or not China has been stealing technology and intellectual property (IP) from American companies. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the only honest and straightforward answer to Rep. Greg Steube’s question, answering: “I think it’s well documented that the Chinese government steals technology from American companies.”

A House Judiciary Committee antitrust hearing with Big Tech CEOs is likely postponed to the week of August 3, according to a report on Thursday.

A recent report in the Wall Street Journal alleges that e-commerce giant Amazon met with small startups seeking investments to gain insight into their products before later launching its own competing products.

The postmaster of Portland, Maine, is reportedly facing accusations that he prioritized Amazon packages while first-class and priority mail were being intentionally delayed.

Amazon founder and CEO (and owner of the far-left Washington Post) Jeff Bezos is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next week, alongside the heads of Google, Facebook and Apple, over growing antitrust concerns about the tech giants.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos added $13 billion to his net worth on Monday marking the biggest single-day jump for an individual since the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was launched in 2012.

Last month, Breitbart News reported on Amazon’s censorship of Killing Free Speech: Part 1, the first part of a documentary about censorship. Amazon has now censored part two of the documentary, which focuses specifically on Big Tech censorship.