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February 26, 2021

Amazon

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Amazon faces biggest union push in its history

February 20, 2021 Joseph Pisani, Associated Press

NEW YORK — The second Jennifer Bates walks away from her post at the Amazon warehouse where she works, the clock starts ticking. She has precisely 30 minutes to get to the cafeteria and back […]

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5 challenges awaiting Amazon’s new CEO

February 6, 2021 Joe Pisani and Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press

NEW YORK — In 1995, few could imagine that the modest online bookstore built by Jeff Bezos would turn into a $1.7 trillion behemoth that sells everything from diapers to sofas, produces movies, owns a […]

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos may step down without stepping away

February 3, 2021 Joseph Pisani and Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

Even after stepping aside as CEO, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appears likely to keep identifying new frontiers for the world’s dominant e-commerce company. His successor, meanwhile, gets to deal with escalating efforts to curtail its […]

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Amazon offers assist with US COVID-19 vaccine distribution

January 21, 2021 The Associated Press

SEATTLE — Amazon is offering its colossal operations network and advanced technologies to assist President Joe Biden in his vow to get 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations to Americans in his first 100 days in office. […]

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Retail’s online future grows brighter after pandemic bump

January 8, 2021 Damian J. Troise, Associated Press

Online shopping has been a lifeline for many as the virus pandemic shuttered stores and kept people at home. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the change in how people shop in a world growing more […]

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North Carolina HBCUs receive gift from MacKenzie Scott

December 16, 2020 The Associated Press

WINSTON-SALEM — Three historically black North Carolina colleges have received record financial gifts from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, gave Winston-Salem State University a record $30 million as part […]

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Agency homing in on social media companies’ data collection

December 15, 2020 Marcy Gordon, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal regulators are ordering Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok’s parent and five other social media companies to provide detailed information on how they collect and use consumers’ personal data and how their practices […]

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Amazon to kick off holiday shopping with October Prime Day

September 28, 2020 Joseph Pisani, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Amazon is aiming to kickstart the holiday shopping season early this year. The company is holding its annual Prime Day over two days in October this year, after the pandemic forced it […]

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Amazon to hire 100,000 to keep up with online shopping surge

September 14, 2020 Joseph Pisani, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Amazon will hire another 100,000 people to keep up with a surge of online orders. The company said Monday that the new hires will help pack, ship or sort orders, working in […]

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Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of disputed JEDI deal

September 8, 2020 Robert Burns, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon reaffirmed Microsoft as winner of a cloud computing contract potentially worth $10 billion, although the start of work is delayed by a legal battle over rival Amazon’s claim that the […]

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