Amazon has signed a lease for a new office space in Manhattan that will house more than 1,500 employees, less than a year after pulling out of a deal for a larger headquarters in the borough of Queens after politicians and activists objected to nearly $3 billion in incentives.
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With just a handful of ballots left to count and the victory of a socialist incumbent, the race for Seattle City Council has a decisive loser: Amazon and its $1 million bid to install a council more friendly to big business.
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Socialist incumbent Kshama Sawant edged closer to her big business-funded opponent in votes tallied Thursday – a trend that could put her alongside a handful of other progressive candidates Amazon spent over $1 million to oppose in the Seattle City Council race.
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Early returns Tuesday night did not reveal whether Amazon’s $1 million gamble to transform Seattle’s city council would pay off, but several races showed the corporate giant’s candidates falling behind.
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Brian Sweeney has a long list of complaints about Amazon, from the way it treats warehouse workers to the low taxes it pays and its effort to win concessions from cities to bring in jobs. So when he learned it had poured $1 million into remaking the Seattle City Council with business-friendly candidates, he pulled out his wallet too.
Read moreThe Pentagon has awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract, snubbing early front-runner Amazon, whose participation drew criticism from President Donald Trump and its business rivals.
Read moreLawmakers investigating the market dominance of Big Tech say they’ve received part of the information they requested from Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, and expect to get the rest soon.
Read moreAmazon was hit with a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming its online sales of Cuban charcoal violate federal law because the retail giant is profiting off property seized by the country’s communist government in the 1950s.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed Coral Ridge Ministries Media dba James Kennedy Ministries’ defamation complaint against Amazon.com and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which designated it a hate group because it calls homosexuality “vile” and “shameful,” among other things.
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The thousands of fires that have been engulfing the Amazon Basin since last month are largely a cause of Brazilian policy failure and climate change, witnesses told a House panel Tuesday.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Amazon.com of selling “banned, unsafe, mislabeled and/or recalled products on its website,” including at least 2,000 listings for toys and medications that lack warnings about health risks to children.
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Lingering smoke in the Amazon is causing concern among Brazilians who say that respiratory problems — particularly among children and the elderly — have increased as fires in the region rage.
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Equipped with hoses connected to rubber backpacks, Brazilian firefighters in the Amazon on Monday raced in a truck along dirt roads toward plumes of smoke after a spotter in a military helicopter directed them to a fast-spreading fire.
Read moreBacked by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday prepared to deploy in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry.
Read moreSeven 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.
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