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Amazon May Finally Have to Start Paying Taxes (in France)

A newly unveiled French tax proposal targets American internet companies like Amazon, a company notorious for paying zero federal taxes in the United States on multibillion-dollar annual profits. The French proposal promises to end tax avoidance at a time when Silicon Valley’s tax practices and tax avoidance schemes are coming under a close microscope around the…

Commerce Patrick Howell O'Neill

Amazon Appears to Yank Anti-Vaxxer Documentaries From Prime Video Streaming

Following an open letter from Representative Adam Schiff calling on Jeff Bezos to curb the promotion of anti-vaccination content and videos on Amazon, it appears his website has done just that. BuzzFeed News reported Friday that Andrew Wakefield’s Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is among a number of anti-vaxxer titles that no longer populate in…

Commerce Catie Keck

Amazon May Open an Entirely New Chain of Grocery Stores: Report

Less than two years after purchasing Whole Foods Market (WFM), increasingly not-online retail giant Amazon looks to be eying yet another chain of grocery stores, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Two grocery chains may seem like overkill to consumers, but WFM made its name on only stocking items within specific parameters—like its…

Commerce Avery Ellis

RIP Amazon Dash Button—You Died as You Lived, Sort of Unnecessary

Those quirky Amazon Dash buttons will soon be dead, gone, no more. Intended to be an easy way to reorder items, Amazon has now pulled them from sale worldwide and seems to be admitting that no one really needs them. When the Dash buttons were originally introduced in 2015, it was hard to believe they…

Commerce Victoria Song

Report: Amazon Cuomo Is Giving Jeff Bezos the Full Say Anything Treatment

Amazon may have left New York’s governor high and dry weeks ago, but Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo appears no closer to letting it go. The New York Times reported Thursday that Cuomo “is furiously working” to sweet talk the company back into a deal with New York for its HQ2 headquarters after Amazon dipped earlier this…

Commerce Catie Keck

Amazon’s New Plan for Fighting Counterfeit Crap Is Letting Brands Deal With It

Fake products aren’t a new headache for Amazon, but now the tech retailer is shifting its strategy on how to deal with them. In a blog Thursday, Amazon announced it will allow individual brands to directly remove counterfeit products themselves. The move is part of what Amazon is calling “Project Zero.” Under the program, Amazon…

Commerce Victoria Song

Amazon Is Now Ditching on Seattle Plans, Too

Amazon just gave the slip to yet another city. The company has officially listed a sublease for its floors in Seattle’s Rainier Square tower that were to be used as office space, according to a marketing flier obtained by GeekWire. In a statement to Gizmodo, an Amazon spokesperson said that the company is “currently building…

Commerce Catie Keck

FTC Rules Against Fake Amazon Reviews in Landmark Case

In the first case of its kind, the Federal Trade Commission took action against a diet pill seller for both making false claims and paying to juice their standing on Amazon with fake positive reviews. The fruit of garcinia cambogia has been hailed by some as a powerful weight loss supplement. Of course, there’s no…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon and Chase Are Still Confusingly Opaque About What They Do With Your Credit Card Data

Last month, I tried to find out what Amazon learns about people who have an Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card from Chase. Neither Chase nor Amazon would give me a straight answer. In fact, Chase’s spokesperson, Mary Jane Rogers, gave me a wrong answer in telling me that Amazon fell into a category that it…

Commerce Kashmir Hill

Amazon Cuomo Is Mad as Hell

Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo appears to have fully embraced the anger phase of his process of grieving the loss of Amazon’s would-be HQ2 headquarters in Queens. Speaking with WAMC’s Alan Chartock on The Roundtable on Friday, the New York governor called the incident “the greatest tragedy that I have seen since I have been in government,”…

Commerce Catie Keck

Amazon Air Jet Crashes in Texas, With Three on Board Believed Dead

An Atlas Air Boeing 767 cargo plane crashed in a bay near Anahuac, Texas on Saturday afternoon with three people on board, according to multiple media reports and the Federal Aviation Administration. The flight, which was contracted to fly cargo for Amazon Air (formerly Prime Air), went down while flying to Houston from Miami. The…

Commerce Tom McKay

Even With HQ2 Dead, New York Isn’t Done Fighting Amazon

“This is just the beginning of what I’m sure will be somewhat of a long fight,” New York State Senator Jessica Ramos said addressing a small press gaggle on Thursday morning. Until recently that statement might have been a reference to the ugly and highly public fight to renegotiate Amazon’s disastrous HQ2 deal. Instead, the…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon Reportedly Has Lord of the Rings Writers in a Locked Office With a Guard and Fingerprint Scanner

Amazon has a lot riding on its secretive, $250 million deal with The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate, publisher HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema to produce a streaming show in the franchise’s Middle-Earth setting, with expectations that the budget could cross one billion dollars. LOTR fans still don’t know an awful lot…

Commerce Tom McKay

Bill de Blasio Does Not Appear to Be Taking the Amazon HQ2 Breakup Well

Jeff Bezos yanked his would-be HQ2 campus this week in a show that Amazon simply couldn’t take the heat from New Yorkers who opposed the secretive deal and its potential implications for the city’s residents, and the Queens community in particular. After Amazon announced it was pulling out, many progressive politicians viewed the outcome as…

Commerce Catie Keck

Amazon Abandons HQ2 Campus in New York

After months of fierce opposition from local leaders, the New York Times reports that Amazon has decided to pull out of its plans to place a new satellite headquarters in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. While some polls showed New Yorkers generally in favor of the project—which was projected to bring…

Commerce Avery Ellis

It Sure Looks a Lot Like the Pro-Trump Brother of Jeff Bezos’s Girlfriend Helped Leak Those Sexts

CNN reported on Wednesday evening that “two people with knowledge of the matter” had confirmed that Michael Sanchez, the brother of the woman with whom Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had an affair, was the person who initially tipped off the National Enquirer to the secret romance and set off a firestorm. In January, the National…

Commerce Tom McKay

Why an Amazon Router Freaks Me Out

Amazon just acquired the mesh networking startup Eero for an undisclosed sum. This is great news for Eero’s founders who are undoubtedly chin-deep in Bezos bucks, and it’s bound to be a great move for Amazon, which can now control an unknown number of people’s wifi routers. However, it’s cause for concern if you’re an…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

U.S. Congressman Wants to Make Amazon Testify on Its Facial Recognition Tool

Last year’s wide-ranging and critical congressional hearings caught Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple and other tech giants in their dragnet. Amazon, for the most part, came out unscathed, but that might soon change. The ACLU researchers raised concerns over Rekognition, Amazon’s facial recognition software suite, this past summer when they discovered what the researchers characterized as…

Commerce Avery Ellis

You Can Now Buy the House Where Jeff Bezos Started Amazon, If You Really Have to Or Something

If you have ever, for some ungodly reason, desired to live in Jeff Bezos’s old house—well you can do that now, for the low, low price of just under $1.5 million. Per the Seattle Times, the three-bedroom, 1.75 bathroom residence on Northeast 28th Street in West Bellevue in the Seattle metropolitan area was also the…

Commerce Tom McKay

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Using Unpublished Nude Photos as Blackmail

The saga of Jeff Bezos’s very public divorce slouches onward. The Amazon CEO published a personal post on Medium this evening containing leaked emails purported to be from the National Enquirer. The emails—at least one of which is marked “confidential and not for distribution”—threaten to publish revealing photos of him and his new girlfriend, Lauren…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon May Finally Have to Start Paying Taxes (in France)

Amazon Appears to Yank Anti-Vaxxer Documentaries From Prime Video Streaming

Amazon May Open an Entirely New Chain of Grocery Stores: Report

RIP Amazon Dash Button—You Died as You Lived, Sort of Unnecessary

Report: Amazon Cuomo Is Giving Jeff Bezos the Full Say Anything Treatment

Amazon’s New Plan for Fighting Counterfeit Crap Is Letting Brands Deal With It

Amazon Is Now Ditching on Seattle Plans, Too

FTC Rules Against Fake Amazon Reviews in Landmark Case

Amazon and Chase Are Still Confusingly Opaque About What They Do With Your Credit Card Data

Amazon Cuomo Is Mad as Hell

Amazon Air Jet Crashes in Texas, With Three on Board Believed Dead

Even With HQ2 Dead, New York Isn’t Done Fighting Amazon

Amazon Reportedly Has Lord of the Rings Writers in a Locked Office With a Guard and Fingerprint Scanner

Bill de Blasio Does Not Appear to Be Taking the Amazon HQ2 Breakup Well

Amazon Abandons HQ2 Campus in New York

It Sure Looks a Lot Like the Pro-Trump Brother of Jeff Bezos’s Girlfriend Helped Leak Those Sexts

Why an Amazon Router Freaks Me Out

U.S. Congressman Wants to Make Amazon Testify on Its Facial Recognition Tool

You Can Now Buy the House Where Jeff Bezos Started Amazon, If You Really Have to Or Something

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Using Unpublished Nude Photos as Blackmail

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

Roborock F25 GT Cordless Vacuum and Mop Hits Its Lowest Price in Spring Sale, 20,000Pa Cleaning Power Without the Premium Price Tag

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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