Amazon to hire 100,000 workers
Online orders surge
Amazon.com is hiring 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders, as many consumers have turned to the web to meet their needs during the coronavirus outbreak.
Amazon and Google ramp up data gathering from speakers
Smart speakers require continuous status-change updates from devices
Since 2019 smart speakers from Amazon, Google have been requiring continuous status-change updates from devices.
US DoD reconsiders JEDI deal
Microsoft may not get it after all
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking court permission to reconsider certain aspects of its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft.
Google is putting out Amazon’s Fire
Smart telly makers must agree to ignore Amazon
Amazon’s efforts to expand the Fire TV platform to smart TVs and cable set-top boxes have failed because Google has long prevented consumer electronics manufacturers from doing business with the online book seller.
Amazon boss spends $10 billion to fight climate change
Hacks off Trump who says that Climate Change is a scam
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he's launching a $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund that will issue grants aimed at addressing climate change.
Amazon wants verification to get handy
Our hands will betray us
From our "what can go possibly wrong with that idea" department, Amazon is working to allow customers to connect their credit card information into its hands.
Amazon orders 40 electric delivery vans
StreetScooter for carbon-free deliveries
Amazon has ordered 40 electric vans from Deutsche Post’s StreetScooter unit for deliveries in the German city of Munich as part of the plan to be carbon neutral by 2040.
Amazon accused of dirty tricks
Don't call me honey
Amazon has been slammed for dirty tricks after it labelled Honey "a security risk" for shoppers over the holidays.
Amazon threatens to fire staff who speak about climate change
Says staff gags are nothing new
A group of Amazon employees say the online bookseller has threatened to fire two workers for speaking out against the company's environmental policies.
Amazon wants you to pay with blood
Or at least in that vein
Online bookseller Amazon filed a patent for technology that could identify you by scanning the wrinkles in the palm of your hand and by using a light to see beneath your skin to your blood vessels.