For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon has reported its first confirmed COVID-19 case in its US warehouses, a network of facilities that has quickly turned into a critical need for millions of customers as they stay at home during the coronavirus crisis. The …
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Amazon hired a new head of its entertainment division, tapping the former Hulu CEO who netted the first outstanding-drama Emmy Award from a streaming service. Mike Hopkins, who most recently was chairman of Sony Pictures Television, will oversee Prime Video and Amazon’s movie and television studios, the e-commerce giant said Monday. He reports directly to CEO Jeff Bezos. Hopkins was the head of …
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It’s OK if you got motion sickness from following Amazon’s earnings reports over the past year. Case in point: The e-commerce heavyweight’s profits crashed in the second and third quarters of 2019, following a heady string of record earnings. And just when profits seemed to be on their way down, they’re right back up again in the fourth quarter, just …
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More than 350 Amazon employees defied the company’s corporate communications policy on Sunday, with a Medium post criticizing its contribution to climate change. The move comes weeks after workers alleged that Amazon threatened to fire them for speaking out. The post from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an internal activist group that started in late 2018, includes comments from 357 …
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Several Amazon employees say they’ve been threatened with termination for talking publicly about their climate change campaign. Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an activist group within Amazon that started in late 2018, said in a statement Thursday that four of its members were targeted by the human resources and legal departments at Amazon for speaking out publicly, including to the …
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Amazon, SpaceX and Facebook are all exploring using satellites to provide a new way to connect devices. According to a new report Friday, Apple may soon be added to that list. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg says that Apple has “a secret team working on satellites and related wireless technology, striving to find new ways to beam data …
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Buying stuff using a phone keeps growing in popularity, with this holiday season showing just how big those little screens have become for retailers. On Cyber Monday, purchases via phones surged to $3.1 billion, helping make it the biggest online sales day in US history, reaching $9.4 billion, according to Adobe. That’s up from $7.9 billion last year. Purchasing peaked …
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Just ahead of Amazon’s important Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, the company now faces a new, larger threat from its many critics in the labor and immigration movements. Over 40 groups said Tuesday they’ve created a new coalition called Athena to push back against Amazon on a variety of fronts. These groups include the immigrant-focused organizations Make the Road New York and Awood Center in …
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This ain’t your grandma’s tea kettle. The KitchenAid Gooseneck Kettle is more like something 007 would use and right now, it’s more than 50% off as part of Best Buy’s Deal of the Day. In addition to looking cool as heck, the stainless steel gooseneck kettle — perfect for tea or coffee — sits atop its own electric heat source and …
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Amazon’s string of record quarterly profits appears to have collapsed after the company’s bold plan to speed up its shipping saddled it with more expenses. The world’s largest e-commerce company on Thursday posted third-quarter earnings that badly missed expectations, despite better-than-expected sales. Its revenue prediction for the all-important fourth quarter, during the peak holiday retail season, was also soft. Shares plunged …
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