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Walmart will use drones to deliver health products as it looks to take on Amazon in the skies. The nation’s largest retailer plans to start testing on-demand deliveries of health and wellness items early next year in partnership with Zipline, which already operates drones in Africa, the company announced Monday. The test flights will take …

Amazon plans to hire another 100,000 workers in the US and Canada amid a coronavirus-fueled boom in its online sales, the company announced Monday. The e-commerce titan’s fourth big hiring spree this year will add full- and part-time jobs to its operations network “as we expand our footprint to better serve customers in communities where …

A watchdog group accused Amazon of jacking up prices for essential goods it sold directly to consumers during the coronavirus pandemic, even though the company has blamed spikes on third-party merchants. The e-commerce giant hiked prices for 10 basic products — from cornstarch and flour to hand sanitizer and face masks — as much as …

Amazon wants the whole country to know it’s hiring. The e-commerce juggernaut is hosting a virtual career day next week with the goal of filling 33,000 corporate and tech jobs nationwide. Amazon traditionally holds its annual career day at locations around the US, but this year is is doing it as an all-digital affair due …

Walmart — playing catch-up with Amazon in the high-tech delivery space — said it has begun testing drones to deliver groceries and other household goods. The Arkansas-based retail giant said Wednesday it has launched a pilot in Fayetteville, North Carolina with drone company Flytrex to deliver select grocery items and household essential items. Walmart’s announcement …

Amazon has banned foreign merchants from selling seeds and plants to US customers while officials investigate the Chinese seed packets that were mysteriously delivered to Americans. The e-commerce giant’s seller policy now prohibits listings for seeds that are imported to the US from abroad or sold by someone who lives outside the country. “Moving forward, …

The Department of Defense on Friday reiterated its stance that Microsoft was the best recipient of its $10 billion cloud-computing contract, dealing a blow to Jeff Bezos’ industry leader Amazon. The Pentagon came to its conclusion following a four-month re-evaluation of the contract, which had been awarded to Microsoft over Amazon — long considered the …

The mystery player behind the unprecedented summer-long rally in tech stocks appears to be the colorful billionaire CEO of Japanese conglomerate Softbank. Masayoshi Son, known for making big plays in tech giants like Alibaba and Uber, has spent billions of dollars buying options on individual tech stocks starting in the spring, according to multiple reports …

MacKenzie Scott has captured the title of richest woman on earth just days after ex-husband Jeff Bezos became the world’s first $200 billion man. Scott — who earlier this summer dropped the Bezos surname she had kept since their 2019 divorce — has added a staggering $30.3 billion to her net worth so far in …

Amazon posted and quickly deleted two job listings for “intelligence analyst” positions that asked potential hires to monitor “labor organizing threats” in the e-commerce titan’s ranks. The postings were put up a few days ago and quickly caught the eye of news outlets and users on Twitter, who called Amazon out. In a screenshot of one …