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Once a modest online seller of books, Amazon is now one of the largest companies in the world, and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, is the world’s most wealthy person. We track developments, both of Bezos and Amazon, its growth as a video producer, the popular Prime service, as well as its own hardware, which includes the Amazon Kindle e-reader, Amazon Kindle Fire tablets, and Amazon Fire TV streaming boxes.

Humble Store winter sale discounts Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dirt 5, and more

By Taylor Lyles

How to cancel your account at Netflix, Amazon Prime, and others

By Barbara Krasnoff

Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants

By Nick Statt

Ring adds end-to-end encryption to protect your video streams

By Jacob Kastrenakes
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Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now

By Taylor Lyles

These are the violent threats that made Amazon drop Parler

By Russell Brandom
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Amazon pulls white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries alongside QAnon purge

By Nick Statt
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Grab a two-pack of the latest Echo Dot for $50 at Amazon today

By Taylor Lyles

Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting

By Kim Lyons

Amazon is kicking Parler off its web hosting service

By Kim Lyons

Alexa’s ‘Tell Me When’ skill combines reminders with contextual information

By Ian Carlos Campbell

Amazon Pantry is being discontinued as Amazon consolidates its grocery delivery services

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Amazon marked free podcasts as costing $8.95 with a discount for Audible subscribers

By Ashley Carman
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Amazon will spend $2 billion to try to fix affordable housing crises in three major employment hubs

By Nick Statt
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Amazon reportedly developing radar-equipped sleep apnea tracker

By Jon Porter
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Amazon just bought a bunch of used commercial jets for the first time

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Here are the best Kindle deals right now

By Taylor Lyles

Apple supplier Lens Technology accused of using forced Uighur labor

By Nick Statt
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New trailers: Tiger, Coming 2 America, The Little Things, and more

By Kim Lyons

Amazon Echo Frames review: listen to these specs

By Dieter Bohn
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Go read this Wall Street Journal report on Amazon’s obsession with cloning and crushing its rivals

By Nick Statt
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Queen Elizabeth will deliver her Christmas Day message via Alexa this year, if you ask

By Sean Hollister
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The best last-minute digital gifts from Target, Amazon, Walmart, and more

By Taylor Lyles

In 2020, live product launches turned into infomercials

By Jon Porter
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Amazon launches group video and audio calling for Echo devices, and a Zoom preview

By Tom Warren
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper reveals design of antennas customers will use for internet-from-space constellation

By Loren Grush
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Here are the shipping deadlines to get your holiday gifts there on time

By Cameron Faulkner

Amazon will make custom-fitted $25 T-shirts after photographing your body

By Thomas Ricker
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Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service is now available on Android

By Jay Peters
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Sony’s WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds are down to a new low price today

By Taylor Lyles

Amazon generates millions of pounds of plastic waste

By Justine Calma

Amazon adds Live Translation to Alexa’s toolbox of skills

By Ian Carlos Campbell