While many used the #PrimeDay hashtag – which was even given its own dedicated emoji by Twitter – to share product deals and discounts, others utilized the hashtag to criticize the company’s workplace practices. “Every time you’re tempted by a #PrimeDay deal, remember this is what you’re funding,” declared Independent …
Read More »Ask Bezos to eat Mona Lisa & deny him reentry to Earth: Petitions get 17k+ signatures ahead of Amazon founder’s space trip
Bezos will take a 10-minute test flight to space on July 20 with his brother Mark, along with a tourist who paid $28 million for the privilege, aboard the New Shepard reusable rocket created by Bezos’ Blue Origin aerospace company. Though many people across the world have been eagerly anticipating …
Read More »Global crackdown on Big Tech mounting as India plans to expedite Amazon & Walmart antitrust probe
The probe launched by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in January 2021 was initiated following a complaint alleging that the companies promoted select sellers on their platforms and that deep discounts stifled competition. Both Amazon and Flipkart have denied any wrongdoing. Two people familiar with the issue told Reuters …
Read More »Outage: Users report major sites down, including Amazon, Guardian, NYT & Reddit
Some of the internet’s most visited websites, including Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, GitHub, eBay, Etsy, Pinterest, and Stack Overflow, went offline, leaving many users from around the world wondering what happened. American and European news outlets were particularly hard hit, with websites including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent, …
Read More »Missed delivery: Why does Amazon, the company that sells nearly everything, nearly everywhere, do next to no business in Russia?
On paper, Russia is a colossal opportunity for the US retailer. With a population of 145 million people, estimates suggest the nation has more domestic internet users than Amazon’s second-largest market, Germany. On Thursday, a new report showed that last year saw explosive growth in the country’s e-commerce market, with $37 …
Read More »That was unexpected: Amazon, Barnes & Noble memory-hole Fauci’s book amid email revelations
Searches for ‘Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward’ on both Amazon US and Barnes & Noble booksellers returned “page not found” results on Wednesday. No official explanation was offered by either company. Fauci’s publisher, National Geographic Books, said in a statement that the book …
Read More »Amazon and the Lion – Buying MGM is another shrewd move in Amazon’s quest to dethrone Netflix from streaming dominance
In its quest to be a top-tier player in the home video streaming wars, Amazon has made some big moves, such as committing upwards of $1 billion for the TV rights to The Lord of the Rings. But that’s pennies compared to Amazon’s recent acquisition. The retail giant has just …
Read More »Amazon gives its employees mindfulness booths at work. Critics call them ‘despair boxes’
“My work day feels like a nine-hour intense workout every day, and they track our every move,” Amazon employee Jennifer Bates told a Senate Budget Committee hearing on wealth inequality back in March. “I learned that if I worked too slow or had too much time off task, I could …
Read More »Amazon Unbound perfectly charts Jeff Bezos’ journey from bookselling nerd to untamable egomaniac whose mission is to save mankind
When megabucks gazillionaire Jeff Bezos began including helicopter pads in the building plans for Amazon’s ever-expanding property empire, it was a sure sign that the man who turned bookselling into the biggest business on the planet had broken free of his moorings. Bug-eyed Bezos was smitten with the new woman …
Read More »Massive and sophisticated fake review scam unearthed on Amazon – report
A whopping 13 million records of Amazon users and vendors participating in the colossal con job were discovered by SafetyDetectives, a cyber security team that stumbled on the trove of data on an unsecured ElasticSearch database last week. The leak amounted to some 7 gigabytes of data, all told compromising …
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