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August 18, 2022

Amazon

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Amazon to buy vacuum maker iRobot for roughly $1.7B

August 13, 2022 Associated Press

NEW YORK — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for approximately $1.7 billion, scooping up another company to add to its collection of smart home appliances amid […]

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Amazon handed Ring footage to police without user consent

July 17, 2022 Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press

Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission, a revelation that’s bound to raise more privacy and civil liberty concerns about its video-sharing agreements with police […]

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Amazon Prime Day comes amid slowdown in online sales growth

July 12, 2022 Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press

Amazon is heading into its annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday much differently than how it entered the pandemic. The company has long used the two-day event — one of its biggest all year […]

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Amazon, Rite Aid cap purchase of emergency contraceptives

July 6, 2022 Associated Press

NEW YORK — Amazon is limiting how many emergency contraceptives consumers can buy, joining other retailers who put in place similar caps following the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade.  Amazon’s limit, which temporarily […]

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Amazon plans to object to union win in New York

April 11, 2022 Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press

Amazon plans to file objections to the union election on Staten Island, New York that resulted in the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the company’s history. The e-commerce giant stated its plans in a […]

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Thieves raiding rail cargo containers in Los Angeles

January 21, 2022 Associated Press 

LOS ANGELES — Thieves have been raiding cargo containers aboard trains nearing downtown Los Angeles for months, taking packages belonging to people across the U.S. and leaving the tracks blanketed with discarded boxes.  The packages […]

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Explainer: What caused Amazon’s outage? Will there be more?

December 10, 2021 Matt O'Brien and Frank Bajak, Associated Press

Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news.  […]

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Consumer watchdog to probe Big Tech payment systems

October 22, 2021 Ken Sweet, Associated Press

NEW YORK — In its first significant action under a new director, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering Apple, Amazon, PayPal and other tech giants to reveal how their proprietary payment networks function. Apple […]

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Lawmakers give Amazon ‘final chance’ to clear up testimony

October 22, 2021 Matt Ott and Marcy Gordon, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House lawmakers are threatening to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, saying the tech giant has a “final chance” to correct its executives’ previous testimony on its competition practices. The lawmakers sent […]

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Amazon sweeping up hourly hires in tight job market

September 16, 2021 Joseph Pisani and Michelle Chapman, Associated Press

Amazon wants to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers and said Tuesday that it is paying new hires an average of $18 an hour in a tight job market as more people shop online. Competition […]

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