If esports ever becomes an Olympic event, don’t look for Germany to enthusiastically send along an elite team of video gamers. Despite worldwide popularity that has propelled video game competition… Read More
German regulatory officials have launched an investigation to find out whether Amazon’s business practices toward sellers in its marketplace are unfair. Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, announced the probe Thursday… Read More
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe and the German-French MASCOT lander have teamed up to send back amazing views of an asteroid that’s more than 180 million miles from Earth, including a… Read More
A robotic probe the size of a shoebox set itself down on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 180 million miles from Earth, and conducted a 17-hour survey of its rocky… Read More
This time Amazon warehouse workers in Germany are walking off on the job at the peak of the holiday shopping season. Reuters reports the latest strike kicks off today and… Read More
Amazon warehouse workers in Germany are voicing their concern again over wages, with 2,000 workers walking off the job at five of Amazon’s distribution centers starting with Monday’s early shift and ending… Read More
Hundreds of writers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are protesting Amazon’s e-book pricing tactics in a fight that’s becoming reminiscent of the one Amazon is having with Hachette in the U.S. In… Read More
While Amazon continues its own contract disputes with Hachette Book Group, now the Seattle company is dealing with another publisher-related problem across the pond. German publishers submitted a formal antitrust complaint… Read More
Providing links to content from German publishers could become costly for Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. VG Media, a collection agency for rights holders, has filed a civil suit against Google,… Read More
Amazon.com warehouse workers in Germany protested again today in yet another act of opposition against what they say are unfair wages. Reuters reports that between 340-to-500 employees participated in the… Read More
“We are people!” “Not robots!” That was the message Monday morning at the heart of Amazon.com’s Seattle headquarters, as about 50 people gathered to protest what they call unfair working… Read More
Updated below with Amazon’s statement. Update No. 2: Here’s the scene from the protest this morning at Amazon’s Seattle HQ Representatives of Amazon’s warehouse workers in Germany will stage a… Read More
Things aren’t going so well for Amazon in Germany. Two months ago, the Seattle online giant cut ties with a Germany security firm amid an uproar in the country over allegations that… Read More
Amazon.com today cut ties with a Germany security firm amid an uproar in the country over allegations that security guards mistreated the company’s foreign temporary workers. A documentary airing on German public… Read More