Seven of the world’s top literary publishers brought a federal copyright complaint Friday in response to an announcement by Amazon-owned Audible of its plan to roll out a new caption service with its e-books.
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Amid global concern about raging fires in the Amazon, Brazil’s government complained Thursday that it is being targeted in smear campaign by critics who say President Jair Bolsonaro is not doing enough to curb widespread deforestation.
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Brazil’s Amazon rainforests – the so-called lungs of planet Earth – are being scorched by fire and a new report shows the infernos raging there have hit an all-time high.
Read moreAmazon plans to pass on the costs of France’s new digital tax on internet giants to the businesses that use its Marketplace platform for finding customers, instead of taking the hit itself, the U.S. online retailer said Thursday.
Read moreAmazon need not comply with a German law requiring retailers to make its phone number clearly available to customers, the European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday.
Read moreBritain’s health care service is teaming up with Amazon’s digital voice assistant to help answer medical queries with advice from the service’s official website. Critics, however, warn about risks to data privacy.
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A Tennessee family can press its lawsuit against online retailer Amazon over a hoverboard fire that destroyed their home, an appeals court has ruled, saying the company was aware of complaints about the devices catching fire and exploding.
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Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first “war cloud” computing system. But Amazon’s early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be slipping away.
Read moreOverturning a ruling likening Amazon to a digital classified-ad section, the Third Circuit on Wednesday revived a lawsuit aiming to hold the tech giant liable for a retractable dog leash that left a woman blind in one eye.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A proposed nationwide class of delivery drivers cannot evade arbitration to sue Amazon in court for
Read moreExpanding the reach of a 2009 law, the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday that the attack of a gay man at an Amazon shipping facility qualifies as a federal hate crime.
Read moreThe federal government may be warming up its antitrust enforcement machine and pointing it at Big Tech.
Read moreIn a case centered on a headlamp that caught fire and burned a family’s house to the ground, the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that online retail giant Amazon is not liable for defective products sold on its website by third parties.
Read moreAmazon tycoon Jeff Bezos said Thursday he’s going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there.
Read moreAmazon met with skepticism from some privacy advocates and members of Congress last year when it introduced its first child-oriented voice assistant, along with brightly colored models of its Echo Dot speaker designed for children.
Read moreGov. Gavin Newsom “leveled the playing field” for California brick-and-mortar businesses on Thursday when he signed into law a new requirement for out-of-state online retailers like Etsy, Amazon and eBay to collect sales taxes from their customers.
Read moreDoes retail giant Amazon bear responsibility when a third-party seller’s product malfunctions and burns down a family’s house? That was the question before a Fourth Circuit panel Thursday in what one attorney called “the flaming headlamp case.”
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday over whether the attack of a gay man at an Amazon shipping facility counts as a federal hate crime.
Read moreA federal judge granted summary judgment to Amazon.com in a $30 million claim from a family whose house burned down after a hoverboard, bought from a third party in China, caught fire.
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