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Mar 13, 2019, 9:54 AM

Amazon’s D.C. lobbying budget is bigger and broader than ever before

Amazon is souping up its lobbying engine, as its business becomes more sprawling and its ambition draws regulatory scrutiny. Lobbyists… Read More

Mar 12, 2019, 10:37 AM

Bernie Sanders calls out Amazon as 2020 hopefuls amp up pressure on Big Tech

Bernie Sanders is once again criticizing Amazon’s treatment of warehouse workers, a few months after celebrating the company’s decision to… Read More

Mar 12, 2019, 8:26 AM

Breaking up Amazon: Is it even possible? Imagining the tech giant under a U.S. antitrust crackdown

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s bold proposal to break up big tech companies —including Amazon, Google and Facebook — has ignited a… Read More

Mar 11, 2019, 6:17 PM

Amazon ends policy that prevented third-party merchants from selling products for lower prices on other sites

Amazon made a key policy change on Monday, eliminating a rule that kept U.S.-based third-party merchants from selling identical products… Read More

Mar 11, 2019, 1:20 PM

Report: In all-hands meeting, Jeff Bezos says he’s ‘as engaged and focused on Amazon as ever’

When he gathers Amazon employees for an all-hands meeting, Jeff Bezos is probably used to trying to convey what’s on… Read More

Mar 9, 2019, 9:11 AM

‘Feed me, Alexa.’ University of Washington team creates voice-controlled robot to help people eat

Robotics researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a robotic system that can feed pieces of fruit… Read More

Mar 9, 2019, 8:54 AM

Is it really time to break up Big Tech? A reality check on Sen. Warren’s ambitious proposal

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s ambitious plan to regulate Facebook, Google and Amazon as utilities and roll back some of their… Read More

Mar 8, 2019, 10:49 AM

Bing zing: Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren glad we’re not all ‘stuck’ with Microsoft’s search engine

“Aren’t we all glad that now we have the option of using Google instead of being stuck with Bing?” That… Read More

Mar 8, 2019, 9:10 AM

Sen. Warren’s bold plan to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google would unwind major acquisitions — and that’s just the beginning

Elizabeth Warren is gunning for Big Tech. On Friday, the U.S. senator from Massachusetts unveiled one of the most ambitious… Read More

Mar 8, 2019, 6:00 AM

What’s in store for Amazon? Language tweaks in filings shed light on tech giant’s evolution

Sometimes the smallest changes can say a lot. In just the last three years, Amazon has become a force in… Read More

Mar 7, 2019, 2:07 PM

Amazon reportedly halts orders from wholesalers, prompting concern about major changes to vendor platforms

Wholesale suppliers that sell items directly to Amazon have reportedly stopped getting purchase orders from the tech giant, and are… Read More

Mar 7, 2019, 7:00 AM

Amazon invests in Seattle startup Jargon, a voice application content platform for developers

Voice technology continues to proliferate. There are more than 66 million smart speaker units in the U.S., up from 36… Read More

Mar 6, 2019, 2:44 PM

Amazon’s healthcare joint venture has a name — Haven — and website revealing details on initiative

The healthcare joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway finally has a name, and it’s called Haven. The… Read More

Mar 6, 2019, 12:57 PM

Amazon closing all pop-up stores as tech giant’s brick and mortar strategy continues to evolve

Amazon will close 87 pop-up retail stores in malls, Whole Foods locations and Kohl’s stores across 21 U.S. states, a… Read More

Mar 6, 2019, 12:14 PM

Amazon’s rapid expansion in Seattle suburb could ignite a ‘real estate frenzy’, Redfin predicts

Bellevue, Wash., get ready to experience the Amazon effect. With the tech giant possibly cooling on Seattle and focusing its… Read More

Mar 5, 2019, 2:45 PM

Target’s digital sales grew 10X faster than in-store sales in 2018, as retailer adjusts to battle Amazon

Target spent much of 2018 turning some of its biggest stores into mini-warehouses for shipping and pickup online orders and… Read More

Mar 5, 2019, 2:23 PM

Full details of Amazon’s HQ2 deal with Arlington County, Va., revealed for the first time

Now that the New York deal is dead on arrival, Amazon’s only “HQ2” will be built in Northern Virginia, where… Read More

Mar 5, 2019, 10:39 AM

As Amazon mulls grocery expansion, work resumes at big Seattle retail space long linked to tech giant

Construction has restarted inside a prime Seattle retail space that has for years been connected to Amazon, according to city… Read More

Mar 4, 2019, 12:05 PM

Amazon fuels Harvard hospital’s machine learning research program

Amazon thinks the cloud can make hospitals run better. The company’s Amazon Web Services unit is sponsoring a program at… Read More

Mar 4, 2019, 9:13 AM

‘Momazonians’ want Jeff Bezos to provide backup daycare benefit for Amazon moms

“Momazonians” at Amazon want their company to step up when it comes to providing backup daycare services for their children.… Read More

Mar 1, 2019, 3:51 PM

Authorities recover cockpit voice recorder from Amazon Air plane crash site in Texas

The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the muddy Texas bay where an… Read More

Mar 1, 2019, 10:48 AM

Amazon Web Services will no longer require security pros running penetration tests on their cloud-based apps to get permission first

Amazon Web Services recently changed a policy that required security researchers to get permission before testing applications running on some… Read More

Feb 28, 2019, 3:19 PM

Decision on the $10B JEDI cloud contract likely delayed after Pentagon agrees to review bias charges against Amazon employee

Those closely watching the battle for a ten-year $10-billion cloud computing contract on offer from the Department of Defense were… Read More