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Oct 20 2025 // In 2022, Jake Clay started an Amazon delivery firm in Odessa, Texas, after hearing about the company-sponsored program from a friend. He sank $75,000 into the business and earned more than $200,000 in the first year. An...
Oct 22 2025 // Amazon.com Inc.’s reputation as a reliable provider of cloud services took a hit on Monday when an outage lasting some 15 hours disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies, ranging from Apple Inc. to...
Nov 13 2025 // Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action saying the retailer subjects thousands of warehouse employees with disabilities to a “punitive” policy governing workplace absences.Amazon, the...
Oct 23 2025 // The state of New Jersey sued Amazon.com on Wednesday, accusing the company of unlawfully refusing workplace accommodations to warehouse employees who have disabilities or were pregnant and firing some who asked for...
Nov 5 2025 // Amazon sued Perplexity AI on Tuesday over the startup’s “agentic” shopping feature, which uses automation to place orders for users, saying it covertly accessed Amazon customer accounts and disguised...
Oct 1 2025 // Amazon.com won the dismissal on Tuesday of a lawsuit accusing the online retailer of discriminating against a Black former employee by reducing her duties and putting her on a performance improvement plan.U.S. District...
Dec 1 2025 // A federal judge last Wednesday granted Amazon.com a preliminary injunction to block the New York State Public Employment Relations Board from enforcing a new state law that the online retailer considers an attempt to...
Sep 26 2025 // Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.5 billion in penalties and refunds and change its process for how to cancel its Prime subscription to settle a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission.The company will pay $1 billion in...
Jan 6 2026 // A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Amazon.com’s bid to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the online retailer of price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic.U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle,...
Sep 10 2025 // Amazon.com Inc.’s autonomous driving unit Zoox has started offering rides to the public in Las Vegas, marking a first in the U.S. for a purpose-built robotaxi with no driver controls.Starting Wednesday, Zoox will...
Sep 25 2025 // Amazon.com sued the New York State Public Employment Relations Board on Monday to block it from enforcing a new law that the online retailer considers an attempt to illegally regulate private sector labor relations.In a...
Mar 10 2025 // The Virginia Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that Amazon Flex drivers are employees and not independent contractors while criticizing the company for changing its arguments after it lost in prior decisions.Amazon...
Nov 25 2025 // ALM Freight, LLC, an Amazon Delivery Service Partner company, and LMDmax Corp., violated federal law at ALM’s Pontiac, Michigan facility by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation for a deaf job applicant after...
Oct 22 2025 // The recent 15-hour or so outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) again raised questions about the potential for systemic loss to the cyber insurance market, but losses from the temporary lapse in cloud services are not likely...
Oct 21 2025 // Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, resolved the issues that plagued its services for about 15 hours on Monday, an episode that highlighted how much of the internet is dependent on the operations...
Feb 18 2025 // Workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina rejected a proposal to unionize, becoming the latest group of the company’s employees to side against union representation.About three-quarters of employees at an...
May 21 2025 // Amazon.com Inc.’s Zoox is expanding testing of its autonomous driving technology to Atlanta, moving in on a market where Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo is expanding with Uber Technologies Inc.Zoox has already deployed a...
Oct 20 2025 // Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world’s most popular apps – Snapchat and Reddit...
May 29 2025 // The New York Times Co. has reached a deal to license its editorial content to Amazon.com Inc. for use across its artificial intelligence platforms, marking the first such agreement the newspaper company has struck after...
Mar 7 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating Scale AI, a data labeling startup backed by tech giants Nvidia, Amazon and Meta, for its compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, the California-based firm said on...