Amazon hikes starting pay to $18 an hour as it hires for 125,000 more logistics jobs
Most new hires will help run 100 new logistics facilities in the United States, on top of more than 250 that opened earlier this year.
Amazon cloud service outage in Japan disrupts brokerages, banks and airlines
The company said a networking problem was found at 7:30 a.m. and that service was restored in the afternoon.
Amazon pandemic bump fades as vaccinated shoppers leave home
The world’s biggest e-commerce retailer on Thursday reported sales and gave a forecast that fell short of expectations.
'Road to space': Billionaire Bezos has successful suborbital jaunt
The 57-year-old American billionaire, donning a blue flight suit and cowboy hat, took a trip to the edge of space lasting 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
The Amazon Wish List is particularly helpful because items used by zoos need to meet strict requirements to ensure animal safety.
Fired by bot at Amazon: ‘It’s you against the machine’
Former Amazon managers said a largely automated system is insufficiently attuned to the real-world challenges drivers face every day.
Facebook's Neighborhoods feature faces crowded niche market and profiling concerns
Facebook, which is rolling out the feature in four U.S. cities, is already playing catch-up in the red-hot market for local social apps.
World’s richest face tax squeeze after 40% boost to fortunes
The proposals form part of a global revival of initiatives to target the rich, including new taxes on capital gains, inheritances and wealth.
High traffic websites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify and the New York Times were listed as experiencing problems by outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos faces final frontier with flight aboard his firms' rocket
The 57-year-old billionaire said he and his brother will blast off from Earth on July 20 on the first crewed flight of the company's launch vehicle.
Big Tech watches tide turning on taxes after its years of plenty
In the current system, the likes of Facebook, Amazon.com and Google have paid effective tax rates which appeared on a long, steady march toward zero.
The deal bolsters Amazon Prime Video with some 4,000 films — including the James Bond franchise — and 17,000 television shows.
