All the headlines from our Amazon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 30 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers met in special session last week and quickly approved job training money and other state incentives to support a plan by Amazon Web Services to spend $10 billion to build two...
Jan 26 2024 // Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of people in the region, according to a study released on...
Jan 25 2024 // Amazon has pulled the plug on its UK home insurance venture – a comparison website – after launching in October 2022.“Over the last year, we have been evaluating various businesses and programs, and as a part of...
Jan 23 2024 // French regulator CNIL said on Tuesday it had fined Amazon France Logistique 32 million euros ($35 million) for what the CNIL said was an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system set up to monitor the...
Dec 11 2023 // Amazon.com asked a federal court on Friday to dismiss a U.S. government antitrust lawsuit which accuses the company of using illegal strategies to boost profits at its online retail empire, including an algorithm that...
Nov 3 2023 // Amazon.com used a series of illegal strategies to boost profits at its online retail empire, including an algorithm that pushed up prices U.S. households paid by more than $1 billion, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission...
Oct 26 2023 // More than two-thirds of Amazon.com Inc. US warehouse workers surveyed by researchers reported that they took unpaid time off to recover from pain or exhaustion sustained on the job.The new national study, published...
Oct 3 2023 // Five Black and Hispanic electricians who felt threatened when several nooses were found at an Amazon warehouse construction site in Connecticut have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the company and two...
Sep 26 2023 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday and asked the court to consider forcing the online retailer to sell assets as the government accuses Big Tech of...
Sep 25 2023 // The Federal Trade Commission is expected to sue Amazon.com Inc. for antitrust violations next week, according to people familiar with the matter – marking the agency’s fourth swipe at the online retail giant this...
Aug 23 2023 // A tracking device called Tile may be effective in preventing its user from losing keys, a dog, or a purse, but it is also a tool used by stalkers, according to two women who have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit...
Aug 4 2023 // The U.S. workplace safety regulator said Amazon.com Inc has subjected workers at yet another of its sprawling warehouses to hazardous conditions by imposing onerous production quotas and failing to provide proper medical...
Jul 14 2023 // Tech and social media giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google bear responsibility for radicalizing the Buffalo supermarket shooter, who was fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online, the victim’s...
Jun 23 2023 // Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices, the latest in a series of probes he’s initiated against big corporations in his role as chairman of a...
Jun 22 2023 // A union organizer who was fired by Amazon was reinstated by the company after she filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, according to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.The union had said...
Jun 21 2023 // The US Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon.com Inc. Wednesday, alleging the e-commerce giant duped consumers into signing up for its Prime membership service and deliberately made it hard to cancel.The consumer protection...
Jun 8 2023 // A union organizer at Amazon who testified before a Senate committee has been terminated by the company, according to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.The union says Jennifer Bates is dealing with injuries...
Jun 1 2023 // Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $30.8 million to resolve two cases brought by the Federal Trade Commission related to privacy lapses by its smart devices.In one case, the FTC alleged that Amazon didn’t take steps to...
Jun 1 2023 // A few hundred Amazon.com Inc. employees walked off the job Wednesday to protest the company’s return-to-work policies, impact on the climate and deepest-ever round of layoffs.The protest, organized by Amazon...
May 16 2023 // A worker died after being injured at an Amazon warehouse in Fort Wayne in an incident that closed the facility for the rest of the day, authorities said.Emergency medical crews were called to an Amazon Fulfillment Center...