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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.

Amazon has lost its bid to delay Alabama union vote

By Russell Brandom
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Amazon reportedly requiring 10-hour overnight shifts for some workers

By Kim Lyons

Bezos’ climate fund faces a reckoning with Amazon’s pollution

By Justine Calma

Amazon’s new CEO says it’s not done making video games, despite problems

By Jon Porter
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Amazon Alexa can now help find a COVID test or ruin your morning with Minions

By Mitchell Clark

Amazon plans to install always-on surveillance cameras in its delivery vehicles

By Nick Statt
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Here are the best Kindle deals right now

By Taylor Lyles

Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now

By Taylor Lyles

Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Meet Andy Jassy, Amazon’s next CEO

By Nick Statt
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Amazon’s electric Rivian vans will start making deliveries in 16 cities this year

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Amazon’s latest earnings cap off a sterling 2020, despite the pandemic

By Cameron Faulkner
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Amazon will have a new CEO as Jeff Bezos transitions to executive chair later this year

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Amazon’s Super Bowl ad stars Michael B. Jordan as Alexa

By Jay Peters
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Amazon will pay $61.7 million to Flex drivers after wage theft allegations

By Russell Brandom
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Amazon’s next headquarters is a glass poop emoji covered in trees

Arlington, Virginia wanted Amazon’s HQ2, and they’re getting this

By Jacob Kastrenakes
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Eero’s Wi-Fi 6 mesh router bundle is back down to its Black Friday price

By Taylor Lyles

Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with more than 2,000 US police and fire departments

By Kim Lyons

Amazon’s motorized Echo Show 10 will finally be available on February 25th

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Elon Musk’s shot at Amazon flares monthslong fight over billionaires’ orbital real estate

By Joey Roulette

Ring’s new $60 video doorbell is its smallest and cheapest yet

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Rejoice! Amazon’s new app icon isn’t just a logo in a white box

By Jay Peters
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Amazon’s Alexa can now act on its own hunches to turn off lights and more

By Ian Carlos Campbell

Amazon bans Oath Keepers and Three Percenters groups from charitable shopping program

By Jay Peters
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Amazon tries to delay warehouse union vote in Alabama

By Zoe Schiffer

Amazon offers to help Biden administration with vaccinations

By Jacob Kastrenakes
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Rivian announces another major funding haul

By Sean O'Kane
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New lawsuit accuses Amazon of e-book price fixing

By Kim Lyons

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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