Amazon News
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Amazon delivery pressure hurting workers, labor group says
A labor coalition on Tuesday said that Amazon delivery workers are getting hurt due to pressure by the e-commerce giant...
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Visa, Amazon announce worldwide payment agreement
Visa Inc and Amazon.com Inc announced an agreement Thursday that allows customers to use Visa cards on Amazon sites worldwide...
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France fines Google and Facebook over cookies
Data privacy watchdog the CNIL said both sites were making it difficult for internet users to refuse the online trackers....
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Fashion and apparel are Europe's most popular categories for online shopping
In most European countries, fashion and apparel was the main product segment for online shopping in 2020, according to the...
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Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny
Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs...
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Amazon, Meta and Twitter pull out of CES over Omicron fears
Amazon, Facebook owner Meta Platforms and Twitter have scrapped plans to attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in...
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How the buy-now-pay-later model is changing consumer shopping habits in India
Piyush Rautela, a Delhi-based public relations executive, is increasingly taking advantage of the plethora of “buy-now-pay-later” interest-free options that are...
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Quicktake: Why did AWS crash again and will there be more cuts?
Amazon Web Services, the backbone of many websites and apps, suffered a major disruption in the US and in some...
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Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Minecraft vulnerable as techs race to fix software flaw
A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool — one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft — is...
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Elon Musk's wealth drops $15bn as tech stocks plunge
The richest US tech moguls lost tens of billions in collective wealth as technology stocks tumbled amid fears of inflation...
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New Twitch tool helps battle ban evaders
Gaming platform Twitch has introduced a tool that detects and blocks users who evade bans, a longstanding problem for victims...
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Online sellers 'hotbed' for dangerous items experts warn
A group of emergency services, consumer watchdogs and safety groups want the government to make online sellers more liable for...
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Lyon vs Marseille abandoned after Payet struck on head by bottle
Sunday's Ligue 1 match between Lyon and Marseille was abandoned nearly two hours after it was interrupted when Dimitri Payet...
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Daily Crunch: Suburban drone-based delivery service Flytrex raises $40M Series C
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Pentagon announces new cloud initiative to replace ill-fated JEDI contract
The Pentagon announced a limited request for bids for a new cloud initiative today that replaces the cancelled $10 billion,...
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Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK
Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the UK from 19 January, the online retail giant has said....