Business

Amazon plans a clothing store for a Southern California mall

Editorial Bureau January 20, 2022

NEW YORK — Amazon says it plans to open a clothing store in a Southern California mall later this year, a first for the online behemoth and a fresh challenge for already struggling traditional retailers. Amazon said Thursday that the store, which will sell women’s and men’s clothing as well as

USA

Tornado victim’s family sues Amazon over warehouse collapse

Editorial Bureau January 18, 2022

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday in Madison County. The action on behalf of Austin McEwen, 26, claims that Amazon failed to warn employees of dangerous weather or provide safe […]

Business

Italy fines Amazon $1.3B, alleging harm to outside sellers

Editorial Bureau December 9, 2021

MILAN — Italy’s anti-trust authority on Thursday fined Amazon 1.13 billion euros ($1.3 billion), accusing the company of exploiting its dominant position against independent sellers on its website in violation of European Union competition rules. The fine is one of the largest leveraged in Europe against the online retail giant, which expanded in particular in […]

Tech

Major outage at Amazon disrupts businesses across the US

Editorial Bureau December 8, 2021

A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for more than five hours, the latest sign of just how concentrated the business of keeping the internet running has become. The incident at Amazon Web Services mostly affected the eastern U.S., but still impacted everything […]

Entertainment

Amazon says Wheel Of Time is its most-watched premiere of 2021

Editorial Bureau November 26, 2021

Once, in the distant past of the First Age Of Streaming—i.e., 2017 or so—the Merchant Tyrant Jeff Bezos issued a proclamation to his hundreds of thousands of digital serfs: “Make me a Game Of Thrones, to better embiggen my Amazon empire.” And lo, did the content creators toil to fulfill their Dark Lord’s edict. Rights were purchased, billions were […]

Business

Amazon to cut down plastic packaging in Germany

Editorial Bureau November 23, 2021

BERLIN — Amazon says it plans to cut the use of plastic packaging in Germany following complaints that the online retailer is contributing to growing mountains of waste. The company said Monday that its German logistics center will replace all single-use plastic packages with paper-based bags or cardboard boxes by the end of the year. […]

Business

Starbucks, Amazon open grab-and-go store in New York

Editorial Bureau November 18, 2021

Starbucks and Amazon are teaming up on a grab-and-go store format. The Seattle-based companies will open their first Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go location on Thursday in New York. At least three more New York stores are planned for next year. The stores offer the full Starbucks menu as well as prepared salads, sandwiches and […]

Business

Amazon’s ‘Great Indian Festival’ to begin from Oct 3

Editorial Bureau September 26, 2021

Bengaluru – Continuing with its commitment to support Small Medium Businesses (SMBs), Amazon India on Sunday announced that it is all set to begin its ‘Great Indian Festival’ (GIF) 2021 from October 3. The company said that Amazon GIF 2021 is dedicated to lakhs of small sellers, including over 75,000 local shops from 450 cities, offering […]

Business

Flipkart co-founder questions Indian enforcement agency probe

Editorial Bureau September 4, 2021

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – Sachin Bansal, co-founder of e-commerce giant Flipkart, has mounted a court challenge against India’s financial crime-fighting agency, which has accused him and others of violation of foreign investment laws, court records showed. The agency, the Enforcement Directorate, had in July issued a so-called show cause notice to Flipkart, its

Business

Amazon struck with record EU data privacy fine

Editorial Bureau July 30, 2021

Amazon.com Inc has been struck with a record $886.6 million (746 million euros) European Union fine for processing personal data in breach of the bloc’s GDPR rules, as privacy regulators take a more aggressive position on enforcement. The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) imposed the fine on Amazon in a July 16 decision, […]