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Amazon Starts Hiring Its Own Drivers for the Holiday Season

As the latest part of Amazon’s campaign against UPS, FedEx, and USPS, the company has been staffing up its own internal shipping service, a spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider today. The job listings for “Seasonal Delivery Associates” began appearing a few weeks back, promising between $15.50 and $17.25 an hour for “shifts up to 12…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon Reportedly Close to Picking Winner in Its HQ2 Shakedown, Though Who Knows

Amazon is inching ever closer to making its long-awaited decision on where to build its second North American headquarters, with the company entering “advanced discussions” to set up shop in Arlington County, Virginia’s Crystal City, with additional facilities in nearby Potomac Yard in Alexandria, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. However, on Sunday the Wall…

Commerce Tom McKay

Two Workers Are Dead After Partial Building Collapse at Amazon’s Baltimore Warehouse

Two men were killed in a partial building collapse at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Baltimore late Friday in an incident resulting from severe weather, an Amazon executive confirmed Saturday. The incident occurred at Amazon’s facility BWI5, a sortation center that opened roughly four years ago and preps packages for shipping, according to Recode. Both…

Commerce Catie Keck

Dozens of Jeff Bezoses Protest Amazon’s Continued Relationship With ICE

Outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters today, protesters arrived wearing quite possibly the most terrifying Halloween costume imaginable: Jeff Bezos’s face. The protesters are primarily affiliated with Latinx rights groups Mijente and NWDC Resistance—and the masks, while appropriate for the festivities, are meant as a direct “fuck you” to Amazon’s ongoing (and often successful) attempts to sell…

Commerce Avery Ellis

New Documents Show Amazon’s Face-Scanning Tech for Cops Was a Headache From the Start

Earlier this year, Amazon’s facial recognition tech Rekognition—which can scan photos and videos and match them against databases of faces—faced a flood of criticism from Amazon employees, shareholders, and civil rights activists who argued that its use by government agencies was unethical or even dangerous. That backlash was spurred by an ACLU report showing how…

Commerce Melanie Ehrenkranz

Senators Sanders and Warren Demand Amazon Explain Its ‘Potentially Illegal’ Anti-Union Video

Facing ongoing employee organization within its grocery subsidiary, Amazon distributed a 45-minute union-busting training video to Whole Foods managers last month, the contents of which were first reported by Gizmodo. Now, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are demanding answers from the company about the video, which they say “directs and encourages potentially illegal interference…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon’s Most Popular Kindle Could Now Be Its Best Buy

When Amazon released its revamped Kindle Oasis last year, we called it the best ereader of all time. But $250 is lot to spend on something that’s essentially a single-purpose device. So, to shore up the other end of its ereader line, Amazon has made a new Kindle Paperwhite sporting many of the high-end features…

Commerce Sam Rutherford

Leaked Whole Foods Email Clarifies How Amazon’s Pay Raises Will Work

Last week, Amazon stunned critics by announcing a $15-per-hour pay floor for all employees and temps across its own facilities and those of its subsidiaries like Whole Foods Market. Excitement gave way to confusion among workers operating with scant details as to how these raises would impact hourly employees making close to or above $15.…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon’s Secret AI Hiring Tool Reportedly ‘Penalized’ Resumes With the Word ‘Women’s’

For years, a team at Amazon reportedly worked on software that vetted the resumes of job applicants in an effort to surface the most likely hires. It gradually became clear that no matter how hard engineers tried to fix it, the recruitment engine found a way to discriminate against women, Reuters reports. On Wednesday, the…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Amazon Employee Shared Customer Email Addresses With Third-Party Seller

According to an automated email distributed this afternoon, an Amazon employee was fired for sharing customer email addresses with an unknown seller. It reads: Hello, We are writing to let you know that your email address was disclosed by an Amazon employee to a third-party seller on our website in violation of our policies. As…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon’s $15-Per-Hour About-Face Is Creating Confusion for Whole Foods Workers

Amazon’s announcement of a universal $15-per-hour minimum wage for employees and temps stunned critics on Tuesday, earning the megacorporation unlikely praise from progressives like Senator Bernie Sanders and 2018 U.S. congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The move is, for Amazon’s hundreds of thousands of workers, a net benefit—full stop. Tactically, it’s also a brilliant play ostensibly…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 After Criticism About Workers on Food Stamps [Updated]

Amazon announced this morning that the company will raise its minimum wage to $15 for all American workers, including seasonal employees and those employed by temp agencies. The move is a direct result of public pressure from people who have criticized Amazon for low wages, grueling conditions, and the fact that many Amazon employees rely…

Commerce Matt Novak

Amazon Is Reportedly Partnering With IMDb to Create a Free, Ad-Supported Fire TV Channel

Amazon and its subsidiary company IMDb are preparing to launch a free, ad-supported service for its Fire TV digital media player “similar to The Roku Channel or some parts of Hulu,” CNBC reported on Monday, citing sources knowledgeable about the project. According to CNBC, the new channel will feature a library of both shows and…

Commerce Tom McKay

Amazon’s Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video

Amazon, the country’s second-largest employer, has so far remained immune to any attempts by U.S. workers to form a union. With rumblings of employee organization at Whole Foods—which Amazon bought for $13.7 billion last year—a 45-minute union-busting training video produced by the company was sent to Team Leaders of the grocery chain last week, according…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Looks Like Twitch Is Now Blocked in China

Twitch had a rush of popularity in China last month, but now reports indicate that the live streaming video platform is no longer available in the country. Abacas, a Hong Kong-based China tech news site, noticed that Twitch’s website was not accessible in parts of China as of earlier this week, and then found that…

Commerce Jennings Brown

Amazon’s Alexa Microwave Is as Dumb as It Is Brilliant

A voice-activated microwave is a terrible idea and a pointless frivolity, a device which solves a problem almost no one had. Why trust your lying eyes? Amazon’s Basics microwave (with Alexa!) is no such bauble, and as silly a creation as it may appear, it’s the company’s cutthroat business as usual. What I can almost…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon Is Going to Drown Us in Alexa Crap

The digital assistant wars are in full swing, and with Google just recently notching the latest victory by finishing Q2 with the top-selling smart speaker in the world, Amazon is revamping its Alexa-powered roster in a very big way. At the start of its presentation, Amazon’s devices head David Limp set the tone by saying…

Commerce Sam Rutherford

EU Antitrust Cop Investigating Whether Amazon Misuses Seller Data for Profit

The European Union is informally investigating how Amazon uses the data it collects from third-party sellers hosted on its website, Europe’s antitrust chief said Wednesday. Amazon openly collects data from its sellers and is legally allowed to use that information to improve its service. The question raised by EU regulators, however, is whether Amazon is…

Commerce Dell Cameron

Amazon Is Planning on Releasing Eight New Alexa-Enabled Devices This Year

Amazon is planning on releasing at least eight new Alexa-powered devices before the end of the year, according to CNBC, including everything from some type of “in-car gadget” and audio equipment to, uh, a microwave oven. From the CNBC report, it’s not clear which of the devices will feature full Alexa voice control versus simply…

Commerce Tom McKay

Amazon Reportedly Investigating Whether Some of Its Staff Are Taking Kickbacks From Merchants

Amazon is reportedly investigating whether independent merchants operating on their platform are greasing the palms of staff to divulge confidential information about the site, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. According to the report, Amazon staff (primarily located in China) are taking bribes of anywhere from $80 to over $2,000 in exchange for internal…

Commerce Tom McKay

Amazon Starts Hiring Its Own Drivers for the Holiday Season

Amazon Reportedly Close to Picking Winner in Its HQ2 Shakedown, Though Who Knows

Two Workers Are Dead After Partial Building Collapse at Amazon’s Baltimore Warehouse

Dozens of Jeff Bezoses Protest Amazon’s Continued Relationship With ICE

New Documents Show Amazon’s Face-Scanning Tech for Cops Was a Headache From the Start

Senators Sanders and Warren Demand Amazon Explain Its ‘Potentially Illegal’ Anti-Union Video

Amazon’s Most Popular Kindle Could Now Be Its Best Buy

Leaked Whole Foods Email Clarifies How Amazon’s Pay Raises Will Work

Amazon’s Secret AI Hiring Tool Reportedly ‘Penalized’ Resumes With the Word ‘Women’s’

Amazon Employee Shared Customer Email Addresses With Third-Party Seller

Amazon’s $15-Per-Hour About-Face Is Creating Confusion for Whole Foods Workers

Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 After Criticism About Workers on Food Stamps [Updated]

Amazon Is Reportedly Partnering With IMDb to Create a Free, Ad-Supported Fire TV Channel

Amazon’s Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video

Looks Like Twitch Is Now Blocked in China

Amazon’s Alexa Microwave Is as Dumb as It Is Brilliant

Amazon Is Going to Drown Us in Alexa Crap

EU Antitrust Cop Investigating Whether Amazon Misuses Seller Data for Profit

Amazon Is Planning on Releasing Eight New Alexa-Enabled Devices This Year

Amazon Reportedly Investigating Whether Some of Its Staff Are Taking Kickbacks From Merchants

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