General Keith Alexander sits on Amazon board
Leg up into defence contracts
Gen. Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today.
Amazon fined "whopping" $72,364
Charged with delaying investigation into Deliveroo
Britain’s competition regulator fined Amazon the grand sum of $72,364 after the US online giant delayed an investigation into its purchase of a 16 percent stake in food platform Deliveroo by failing to provide documents on time.
Amazon has become a dystopian nightmare
Total control over workers
A new report has revealed that Amazon's retail side has adopted an almost dystopian level of control over its warehouse workers, firing them if they fail to meet secret targets and monitoring the crap out of them.
Amazon gets into Health Gadget market
But there appears to be some weirdness
Amazon is getting into the health gadget market with a new fitness band and subscription service called Halo. However this being Amazon, you can expect some weirdness.
Amazon investigated for exploiting the pandemic
Odd pricing alledged
Amazon is being investigated by German authorities for allegedly abusing its market position during the coronavirus pandemic.
US Justice Department preparing to take on Big Tech
Anti-trust investigations for everyone
The US Justice Department is moving “full-tilt” on its antitrust investigation of Google and other Big Tech platforms.
Amazon scout bots emerging from smoke filled garages
Home engineering
The next generation of Amazon's Scout bots -- the fully-electric autonomous delivery devices the company is hoping to deploy soon, are being designed and built by a team of mechanical engineers in Seattle in their homes and garages.
Apple slashed its App Store fee for Amazon
Mates rates
While the fruity cargo cult Apple is insisting that it needs to take a third of profits from app store developers, it is not above doing cosy deals with the likes of Amazon.
FCC approves Amazon’s Kuiper constellation
Blotting out the sun
The Federal Communications Commission has approved Amazon’s plans for its Kuiper constellation, which entails sending 3,236 satellites into orbit to beam internet coverage down to Earth.
Big Tech spins its way through the halls of power
As we predicted, it was a waste of time
The four big tech leaders spun their way through an antitrust panel in which they were so safe they could practically admit antitrust behaviour and get away with it.