Karen Weise
The New York Times
Seattle, WA, United States
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Amazon Earnings: Return to Profitability But Slow Growth Signaled Ahead
The e-commerce giant, which also turned a profit in its latest quarter, indicated sales in the holiday period might rise at their lowest level since 2001. → Read More
The chief executive of Amazon’s consumer business is leaving.
Dave Clark, who was also the architect of the company’s sprawling warehouse operations, said he would depart after 23 years. → Read More
Amazon’s cloud computing outage disrupts its warehouse operations.
Amazon Web Services began reporting increased “error rates” in its cloud operations on Tuesday morning. → Read More
Amazon Staten Island Workers Withdraw Request for Union Vote
The workers had spent months collecting signatures to call for an election. → Read More
Amazon sales growth slows and costs rise.
The company’s profit was lower, largely because of higher labor costs and huge investments in its delivery network. → Read More
Amazon workers on Staten Island show they have enough support to hold a union election.
The outcome could bring a second unionization vote at an Amazon warehouse in less than a year. → Read More
Amazon settles with activist workers who say they were illegally fired.
The two women said they had been fired for speaking out. The company said they had repeatedly flouted its employee policies. → Read More
Amazon pushes its return to office to January.
BlackRock and Wells Fargo also delayed their mandatory returns until October. Both attributed the changes to new developments in the spread of Covid-19. → Read More
The Amazon That Customers Don’t See
Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched. → Read More
James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, while diminished, commanded a premium price, with Amazon seeking to bolster its crucial Prime membership offering. → Read More
Amazon indefinitely extends a moratorium on the police use of its facial recognition software.
The tool has faced scrutiny from lawmakers and some employees inside Amazon who said they were worried that it led to unfair treatment of African-Americans. → Read More
Amazon’s profits soar 220 percent as pandemic drives shopping online.
The high volume of orders during the pandemic has let Amazon operate more efficiently. → Read More
Amazon’s Profit Tripled in First Quarter: Live Updates
Amazon has run its warehouses closer to full capacity, and delivery drivers have made more stops on their routes, during the pandemic.Credit...Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters With the pandemic shifting sales online and consumers flush with stimulus checks, Amazon on Thursday reported $108.5 billion in sales in the first three months of the year, up 44 percent from a year earlier. It also posted $8.1… → Read More
Amazon to raise pay for 500,000 workers.
They will receive 50 cents to $3 more an hour, the company said. → Read More
Microsoft to Buy Nuance for $16 Billion to Focus on Health Care Tech
By acquiring a provider of artificial-intelligence software, the tech giant is hoping to bolster its offerings for the fast-growing field of medical computing. → Read More
Follow Live Amazon Union Vote Results as Counting Restarts
With about half the ballots counted late Thursday, votes against unionization had an advantage of more than 2-to-1 over those in favor. → Read More
Amazon union drive in Alabama gathers 3,215 votes.
The ballots cast represent about 55 percent of the roughly 5,800 workers who were eligible to vote, the union representing the workers said. → Read More
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds
The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers. → Read More
Discord and Microsoft Said to Discuss Deal That Could Top $10 Billion
An acquisition of Discord, a chat app for gamers, would buttress Microsoft’s gaming business. → Read More
New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19
The case focuses on two of the company’s facilities in New York. → Read More