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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told a congressional antitrust hearing on Wednesday that he was unsure if his company had used the data of third-party sellers to inform Amazon’s business decisions, in violation of its own policies. Bezos made the admission during questioning by Representative Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.), whose district in Seattle is home to …
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Big Tech will be under the spotlight once again on Wednesday, as the CEOs of the largest companies in the industry will face a grilling before Congress. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple chief Tim Cook are scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust …
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will admit that his company should be scrutinized when he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel on Wednesday. But the tech mogul is also expected to defend the e-commerce giant to lawmakers, who are probing how the business practices and data gathering of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple have …
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Australian actor Matthew Le Nevez knows his way around thrillers filmed in far-flung locations. He’s been to South Africa for his role in 2019 drama “The Widow” on Amazon opposite Kate Beckinsale, playing her character’s presumed-dead husband who seemingly turns up in the Congo. Although currently an LA resident, he’s also done several shows in …
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The House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel could release its report on antitrust allegations against four of the country’s largest tech juggernauts by late summer or early fall, senior committee aides said. The committee has received 1.3 million documents from Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google thus far as it investigates whether the companies’ business practices hurt …
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The Italian offices of Apple and Amazon were raided Tuesday as the country’s antitrust authority opened an investigation into whether the companies engaged in anti-competitive practices. The probe is focused on whether the iPhone maker conspired with the e-commerce juggernaut to prevent electronics retailers not included in Apple’s official reseller program from selling its popular …
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos added a record $13 billion to his fortune on Monday amid a coronavirus-fueled boom for his e-commerce empire. A 7.9 percent jump in Amazon’s stock price helped the world’s richest man notch the largest one-day increase to any individual’s net worth in the history of Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, which tracks the …
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Mireille Enos took matters into her own hands (and fists) for her brutal fight scenes on “Hanna.” “I do my own stunts,” says Enos, 44, who portrays Marissa Weigler, the rogue CIA operative allied with Hanna (Esme Creed-Miles) in Season 2 of the Amazon drama, just renewed for a third season. “They have an incredible …
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Amazon is ramping up its mission to make shopping faster with a new high-tech shopping cart that eliminates the need for long lines at the cash register — and the cashiers who run them. The “Dash Cart” the e-commerce titan unveiled Tuesday automatically rings up items that shoppers drop in their bags and charges them …
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Amazon’s New York warehouse workers can take extra time to wash their hands during the coronavirus pandemic without being punished, the company said. Employees at the e-commerce juggernaut’s Staten Island facility recently received an email telling them that they won’t be disciplined for not hitting their productivity goals, following months of protests and a lawsuit …
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told a congressional antitrust hearing on Wednesday that he was unsure if his company had used the data of third-party sellers to inform Amazon’s business decisions, in violation of its own policies. Bezos made the admission during questioning by Representative Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.), whose district in Seattle is home to …
