6,000 Amazon workers in Alabama to vote on forming first US union in tech giant’s history

Thousands of Amazon workers at an Alabama facility will vote in February on whether to unionize, potentially becoming the first U.S.-based union in the company’s history.

Amazon seeks to keep right-wing app Parler offline

Seattle-based Amazon.com, Inc. has asked a federal judge to deny a request to reinstate the cloud-service account for conservative social media network Parler.

Amazon, Walmart, Target allowing some customers to keep refunded return items

Some retail heavyweights, including Amazon, Walmart and Target, are allowing customers to not only process refunds seamlessly online, but are also allowing customers to just keep the returned items.

MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, says she’s given $4.1 billion to charity

MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, says she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations.

Amazon, YETI team up with joint lawsuit against alleged counterfeiters

Amazon and YETI are teaming up against alleged counterfeiters with a joint lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Tony Hsieh died from smoke inhalation, official says

Retired Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh died from complications of smoke inhalation sustained during a house fire earlier this month in Connecticut.

How Black Friday and holiday shopping have changed for 2020

In normal times, Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year, drawing millions of shoppers eager to get started on their holiday spending. But these are not normal times.

Amazon opens online pharmacy with prescription delivery, shaking up another industry

The move propels Amazon into a new business and could shake up the pharmacy industry. Big chains like CVS and Walgreens rely on their pharmacies to bring them a steady flow of shoppers.

Tampa woman made 42,000 fraudulent Amazon returns in past 5 years, detectives say

Over the course of five years, detectives said the Tampa woman received over $100,000 in reimbursements for 42,000 fraudulent returns to Amazon through 31 different accounts.

‘Kissing the Coronavirus’: COVID-19 romance novel appears on Amazon

Written by an author under the pen name M.J. Edwards, the story follows a doctor who “fell in love” with the very virus she was hired to cure.

Democrats call for Congress to rein in, break up Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple

Democratic lawmakers are calling for Congress to rein in Big Tech, possibly forcing Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple to sever their dominant platforms from their other lines of business and imposing new uniformity on the terms they offer users.

Amazon, eBay remove Proud Boys merchandise listings

Online superstores Amazon and eBay have pulled merchandise referencing the far-right Proud Boys after affiliated apparel was spotted on the sites.

Woman killed in shooting at Florida Amazon facility

A woman was killed and a man was hospitalized following a shooting at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Jacksonville, Florida, according to authorities.

Amazon Prime Day has a date

Amazon Prime Day pulled in over $7B in 2019