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Style & Design Oct 14, 2018

Tokyo's fashion week can be for the fans

by Misha Janette

You don't need to be in the business to take part in Amazon Tokyo Fashion Week. Here's our pick of related events anyone can enjoy.

Business / Tech Oct 11, 2018

Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women: sources

Amazon.com Inc.'s machine-learning specialists learned something unexpected from the machine: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants' resumes, with the aim of mechanizing the search for top talent, five people familiar ...

Business Oct 5, 2018

Veteran Amazon workers say they would prefer to keep getting bonuses and shares over $15 an hour

Amazon's announcement that it would raise its hourly minimum wage to $15 has been seen as a win for workers. But some longtime employees say they are losing out. Those who already made $15 will get an extra dollar an hour when the change is ...

Business / Tech Oct 5, 2018

Apple and Amazon deny Bloomberg report on Chinese hardware attack, chip infiltration

Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. denied a Bloomberg report on Thursday that their systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence, according to statements from the companies released by Bloomberg. Bloomberg Businessweek cited 17 unnamed intelligence and company sources as saying ...

Business / Corporate Oct 4, 2018

Amazon ditching bonuses and stock awards to help pay wage hike to $15 an hour

Amazon.com Inc. is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for warehouse workers and other hourly employees after the company pledged this week to raise pay to at least $15 an hour. Warehouse workers for the e-commerce giant in the U.S. were eligible in the past ...

Business Sep 24, 2018

Microsoft, Amazon, Google join fight to prevent famine, tap AI tech

Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organizations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled Sunday. Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many lives already ...

National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Sep 22, 2018

Will Don Quijote tilt its lance at the Amazon giant?

by Mark Schreiber

A somewhat cynical commentary attributed to the late American TV comedian Jackie Gleason goes, "Anybody who says money can't buy happiness doesn't know where to shop." Shopping per se, however, is an essential daily activity for many, and no one was particularly happy when ...

Business / Tech Sep 21, 2018

Amazon sets December launch date in Japan for Echo Show display-speaker hybrid

Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday it will sell its Echo Show display-speaker hybrid in Japan starting in December, with the aim of further cementing its position in the world of voice-controlled devices. The world's largest online retailer said it will now begin taking preorders for the ...

Business / Tech Sep 14, 2018

Amazon's Jeff Bezos unveils $2 billion philanthropic fund

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest person on the planet, announced Thursday he was creating a philanthropic fund to help homeless families and launch preschools in low-income communities, committing an initial $2 billion. Bezos made the announcement on Twitter a year after asking for ideas ...

Commentary / World Sep 5, 2018

Amazon at $1 trillion is more dream than reality

by Shira Ovide

Its market value is a vision of the future, not the present.