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A high-ranking engineer at Amazon has resigned in protest of the company’s treatment of warehouse workers. Tim Bray, a VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, said in a public blog post titled “Bye, Amazon” that he could no longer stand to work at a “chickens–t” company that fires dissenters in an effort “designed to create …
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The House Judiciary Committee wants Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify about an allegation that his company uses third-party vendor information to guide creation of new Amazon products. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the internet retail giant has allegedly used information from third-party vendors to guide competing products. For example, Amazon introduced …
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Amazon shares dropped in extended trading Thursday after reporting that it would be spending an eye-watering $4 billion on coronavirus-related expenses. In its first earnings report since the coronavirus crisis hit — sending demand for its services to skyrocket — Amazon said revenue soared to $75.5 billion, up 26 percent from a year earlier and …
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Activists slathered “Protect Amazon workers” in paint on a street outside CEO Jeff Bezos’s Washington mansion to protest the online retail giant’s treatment of workers during the coronavirus crisis. The protesters covered the road in giant red and yellow letters along with silhouettes of three masked faces. It took about an hour for them to …
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Amazon is reportedly buying heat-sensing cameras to monitor its workers’ temperatures during the coronavirus pandemic from a firm that has been blacklisted by the US for helping China detain and monitor the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. Under the deal with China’s Zhejiang Dahua Technology, Amazon is paying $10 million for 1,500 cameras, according to …
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US stocks made a wobbly climb Tuesday as Wall Street weighed how the global economy will look once it emerges from its coronavirus-induced coma. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up an early 1.5 percent jump to trade up 115.80 points, or 0.4 percent, at 24,249.58 as of 2:13 p.m. That put the blue-chip index …
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A US senator is calling on the Justice Department to open a criminal probe of Amazon’s “predatory data practices.” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO.), who has long been critical of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and their privacy practices, expressed concern Tuesday about a Monday report that Amazon collects data about third-party products it sells on its …
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Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) asked attorney general Bill Barr to open a criminal antitrust probe into Amazon following reports that the tech giant was illicitly accessing third-party seller data, a violation of official company policy designed to boost its own products. “Amazon abuses its position as an online platform and collects detailed data about …
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New merchants who want to sell their wares on Amazon will be subject to a video call to verify their identity, the company said Sunday. The plan — meant to counter fraud while in-person meetings are impossible during the coronavirus pandemic — is Amazon’s latest effort to police conterfeits and allegedly unsafe products on its …
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Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) has reiterated his calls to “overhaul the FTC” in the wake of fresh allegations that Amazon steals independent-seller data to inform its business decisions, in violation of its own published policies. While the Federal Trade Commission is currently exploring past mergers to see whether Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google-parent-company …
A high-ranking engineer at Amazon has resigned in protest of the company’s treatment of warehouse workers. Tim Bray, a VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, said in a public blog post titled “Bye, Amazon” that he could no longer stand to work at a “chickens–t” company that fires dissenters in an effort “designed to create …
