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A recent analysis by the Wall Street Journal shows that top executives in the United States sold a total of roughly $9.2 billion worth of stock between the start of February and the end of last week, saving the executives a potential loss of $1.9 billion. Jeff Bezos sold three percent of his Amazon holdings, worth $3.4 billion, at the beginning of February.

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly shut down a small New York warehouse temporarily after learning that one of its workers tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.

According to a recent report, e-commerce giant Amazon refused to close two of its warehouses in Spain despite three confirmed cases of Wuhan coronavirus amongst its workers. The company has even reportedly added dozens of temporary workers for the facilities.

Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein sought help from Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, and Tim Cook in the weeks after dozens of women publicly came forward and accused the former Miramax boss of sexual misconduct, according to a new report. Weinstein also wrote in an email that “Jen Aniston should be killed,” in a reference to the “Friends” star.

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less Amazon Go convenience stores to other retailers.

As many as 3,200 Amazon delivery drivers will be laid off by the end of April due to the company cutting ties with contractors, a recent report states.

President Donald Trump’s ‘tight labor’ policies are boosting wages, but he should loosen immigration policies to supply business with more imported workers, says the Washington Post’s editorial board.

Amazon has been criticized by the Auschwitz Memorial recently for its depiction of the Holocaust in its new series Hunters and for selling books featuring Nazi propaganda on its website.

“Evil men don’t get up in the morning saying ‘I’m going to do evil’. They say: ‘I’m going to make the world a better place.'” — Christopher Booker.

The Washington Post is taking criticism for an op-ed published Tuesday by Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari, titled: “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president.”

Michael Bloomberg has said things news media outlets falsely accuse Donald Trump’s supporters of saying, stated Mike Cernovich.

Amazon CEO and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has announced that he is creating a $10 billion fund to combat climate change, calling it the “biggest threat to our planet.”

Is Jeff Bezos just unfaithful or is he also an international provocateur? The answers to these questions are important, because Bezos is not only the richest man in the world; he’s also one of the world’s most powerful corporate and media chieftains.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly took a swipe at White House Assistant to the President and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro in a recent post to Instagram. Navarro called the swipe “A wonderfully banal passive aggressive post from the would-be author of ‘Zen and the Art of Counterfeit Trafficking.” 

According to leaked internal screenshots, Amazon is testing a new lending marketplace for third-party merchants on its site which would allow them to receive loans from Amazon’s own lending arm as well as Goldman Sachs’s Marcus group and regional banks.

According to a recent report, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ attempt to open the company’s HQ2 in New York because he was jealous of Elon Musk and the government subsidies that Tesla has received.

The brother of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s girlfriend Lauren Sanchez sued the multi-billionaire over a National Enquirer story about Bezos’s marriage-ending affair.

A software engineer for e-commerce giant Amazon has called for the immediate shutdown of the company’s Ring security camera business, stating the privacy issues the company has faced are “not fixable.”

More than 330 Amazon employees reportedly violated the e-commerce giant’s communications policy on Sunday in a public display of support for colleagues who were warned they could be fired for speaking out against the company’s environmental practices.

A recent report alleges that prosecutors have evidence that Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, shared texts and selfies that the two sent each other with her brother who leaked them to the National Enquirer.

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly promising to give more data on counterfeit goods to law enforcement to crack down on fake items on its platform.

Any suggestion Saudi Arabia was in involved in the phone hacking of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was dismissed as “absurd” late Tuesday by the country’s embassy in Washington.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday delivered a message to billionaires, stating that the people want their “power” — not their money.

E-commerce giant Amazon has attempted to address the Indian government’s issues with the company’s plans to set up shop in the country by promising to create 1 million new jobs in India by 2025.

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly set to invest $1 billion to bring small businesses online in India in an attempt to assuage critics of the company’s development in the country.

Amazon is reportedly doubling down on its attempt to block Microsoft from a lucrative Pentagon contract for cloud computing worth $10 billion, the latest twist in the e-commerce giant’s ongoing dispute with the Trump administration over the awarding of the contract.

Billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants rich people, including himself and his wife, to pay more taxes as part of his New Year’s resolutions.

Amazon has reportedly threatened to fire at least two employees who criticized the e-commerce giant’s record on the environment, telling them that they violated the company’s external communications rules.

Bloomberg News’ billionaire index is reporting on the money made this past year, including Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos remaining on the top of the heap.

A new report from BuzzFeed News and ProPublica investigates the human costs of Amazon’s extremely fast delivery system. According to the report, the e-commerce giant has sacrificed worker and contractor safety in the name of profit and efficiency, including denying one executive’s safety plan including initiatives like providing more driver breaks, because it would cost Jeff Bezos’ empire 4 cents a package to implement.

Injured Amazon workers and labor organizers have begun protesting the dangerous work speeds and high injury rates of the company’s warehouses.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos criticized employee activists recently, stating that Silicon Valley tech firms should be free to do business with the U.S. Military. According to Bezos, it is up to senior management to tell employees “no” when they become activists against their own employers and their government contracts. Bezos added, “My view is if big tech is going to turn their backs on the Department of Defense, this country is in trouble. That just can’t happen.”

Donald Trump’s deputies hired illegal aliens in his network of hotels and clubs, and he treated them well, before he entered politics, says a report by the Washington Post.

Amazon’s massive cloud computing business is reportedly being scrutinized by U.S. antitrust enforcers, according to individuals familiar with the situation.

The Washington Post’s Fashion Editor Robin Givhan criticized First Lady Melania Trump for draping a coat over her shoulders in the winter season. 

Officials in Indiana allegedly removed citations against Amazon concerning the death of a warehouse worker just as Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) was trying to persuade Amazon to build its “HQ2” facility in the state.