Privacy experts are warning of Amazon’s growing surveillance powers following the company’s acquisition of clinic chain One Medical and iRobot, the company behind Roomba.
Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly purchased iRobot, the maker of the popular automated home vacuum Roomba, for $1.7 billion. Jeff Bezos’ company is likely just as interested in the ability to map customers’ homes as it is in adding vacuums to its growing empire of products and services.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) recently sent a letter to the FTC requesting a review of the proposed $3.9 billion merger between Amazon and One Medical, a chain of medical clinics whose acquisition would mark Amazon’s latest move to take over the healthcare industry.
Amazon is not sweating the corporate tax hike in the Joe Manchin-approved climate spending bill.
The controversial megayacht of Amazon’s climate crazy tsar Jeff Bezos appears to have avoided egging while sneaking through Rotterdam.
Amazon announced a $2 billion loss for the second quarter this week. Although the company performed well against expectations for sales, the e-commerce giant also took a massive hit over its large investment in electric truck company Rivian.
Amazon is finally taking action against fake reviews on its platform, suing the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups used to coordinate fake reviews on the site.
The Wall Street Journal has revealed in an exclusive report that e-commerce giant Amazon has been reducing the number of items it sells under its own brands due to poor sales in recent months. The company is also facing intense regulatory pressure over its private label business, which is accused of using sales data from other brands on the Amazon platform to hijack their customer base with an inferior copy of their products.
Tech giant Amazon is reportedly partnering with the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to develop a cancer vaccine and has already begun recruiting for clinical trials.
The European Union has successfully E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly agreed to simplify the process of canceling its Prime membership in Europe following pressure from the European Union. The EU accused Amazon of displaying “multiple pages” containing “distraction information” and “unclear button labels” when users attempt to cancel their Prime subscription.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos turned on President Joe Biden for ordering gas stations to lower their prices at a time of “war and global peril.”
A recently leaked Amazon memo has revealed that the e-commerce giant is worried it might run out of people to hire in its U.S. warehouses by 2024.
Wickr Me, an encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon, has reportedly become a popular app for people sharing images of child sexual abuse.
Amazon is well-known for its strict employee time tracking and quick firing of workers it believes are not performing adequately. Now, internal documents provide greater insight into how Amazon keeps track of its workers every minute. Spreadsheets reportedly show that Amazon tracks workers down to the minute, including the amount of time they spend in the bathroom and other violations such as “talking to another Amazon associate.”
E-commerce and tech giant Amazon alleges that the company is being unfairly targeted by a proposed U.S. antitrust bill. According to the Masters of the Universe, the bill “jeopardizes two of the things American consumers love most about Amazon: the vast selection and low prices made possible by opening our store to third-party selling partners, and the promise of fast, free shipping through Amazon Prime.”
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon Executive Chairman billionaire Jeff Bezos, is joining the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in lobbying President Joe Biden to cut United States tariffs on China-made products.
Leaked documents reportedly show that Amazon employees are quitting at twice the rate of recent years due to low pay and increased competition. The documents show that “regretted” attrition, the loss of employees that Amazon wanted to keep, has reached more than 12 percent, or double the recent average.
Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, wants to expand his portfolio to include investments in single-family home rentals.
There is no greater threat to the Democrat Party than an open rebellion among their own high-profile elites, but that might be what we’re seeing.
Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ridiculed His Fraudulency Joe Biden and his “Disinformation Board” Friday.
President Joe Biden has given Amazon, for which billionaire Jeff Bezos serves as chairman of the board, a $10 billion federal contract despite having pledged to American union workers not to reward corporations accused of union-busting tactics.
Amazon reportedly told its staff this week that it will reimburse up to $4,000 in travel expenses every year for medical treatments, including abortions.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lost $20 billion in wealth in one day following the poor performance of Amazon’s stock. Bezos still has $150 billion to his name despite Amazon’s disastrous earnings report.
E-commerce giant Amazon has suffered a significant drop in share value following a recently reported loss in the first quarter of 2022 of $3.8 billion. As of Friday afternoon, Amazon shares are down more than 15 percent in intraday trading.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday published the latest in a string of editorials defending Tesla Inc. owner and Twitter buyer Elon Musk and lambasting his critics, especially Amazon/Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and anyone who echoed his speculation that Communist China might use its economic leverage over Musk to control Twitter content.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday rushed to defend Twitter’s new owner-to-be, Elon Musk, from criticism by Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos criticized a fellow billionaire’s purchase of a media company on Tuesday by wondering if Communist China might use economic pressure against Elon Musk to gain “a bit of leverage” over Twitter. The Chinese Foreign Ministry brusquely labeled such ideas as “speculation . . . without any factual basis.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been getting mercilessly trolled on Twitter after he wondered aloud if billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform could potentially give the Chinese government leverage over free speech.
E-commerce giant Amazon is facing yet another union vote, this time at a facility directly across the street from the Staten Island warehouse that recently voted to unionize.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stated in a recent interview that he believes his workers are “better off” without a union and that the company’s high injury rate is “misunderstood.”
The price of products on Amazon is likely to increase following the company’s introduction of a five percent “fuel and inflation surcharge” for sellers using Amazon’s fulfillment services.
Amazon is claiming that New York union organizers gave marijuana to workers in an attempt to secure their unionization votes. Recreational marijuana is legal in New York, and a lawyer for the Amazon Labor Union responded that handing out cannabis is “no different than distributing free t-shirts and it certainly did not act to interfere with the election.”
In a classic David vs. Goliath tale, the Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, beat union-busting billionaire Jeff Bezos to form a union. Here are five things to watch as this battle royale over unionization unfolds.
Amazon reportedly plans to object to a recent union election victory at its Staten Island warehouse, alleging that organizers pressured workers into voting.
The SEC has reportedly launched an investigation into how Amazon discloses details of its business practices, including how it uses third-party seller data. The company stands accused of using data from third-party sellers to decide when to make its own private-label products, unfairly competing with the very companies that generate its sales.
Americans are finally winning higher wages because wealthy investors are trying to create more profit-generating jobs than the number of unemployed workers, the Washington Post’s editorial board admitted on April 5.
An automatic word monitor in a new Amazon worker chat app will ban a variety of words and phrases, such as “union,” “fairness,” “pay raise,” “slave labor,” and “master,” among other terms, according to internal documents obtained by the Intercept.
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, gave a record-breaking $275 million donation to abortion provider Planned Parenthood.
Amazon Flex drivers and other gig economy drivers have staged a protest outside an Amazon warehouse calling for an increase in pay to deal with surging gas prices during the unprecedented inflation under President Joe Biden.
Comedian and Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson has pulled out of a planned launch aboard one of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin shuttles later this month.
