New statistics from Amazon show the company’s total spending on jobs and infrastructure in each US state from 2010 to 2020 – and show where the tech giant has made its biggest stakes over the past decade and where there are still major gaps to fill. Amazon released the numbers to show its positive impact … Read more
Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Charlie Bell, a member of Amazon’s Senior Leadership Team and long-standing lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, is leaving the company after more than 23 years. His departure, reported by The Information and confirmed by CNBC, is the latest change in the Amazon Web Services leadership team as Andy Jassy, longtime … Read more
An Amazon employee walks into a fulfillment center in Kent, Washington and is handed a mask by another employee with a pair of pliers before starting a shift in the huge parcel handling warehouse last June. (GeekWire file photo / Kurt Schlosser) A day after its office workers’ return to a personal environment was postponed … Read more
After Amazon previously announced it would return to the office on September 7 this year, Amazon has announced another delay until January 3, 2022, Reuters reported. The plan change comes amid a surge in the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant in the United States. “As we continue to closely monitor local conditions related to COVID-19, … Read more
CNN – Curious what your fellow readers are buying from CNN Underscore? Every month we round up our readers’ favorite products – the products readers like you have collected the most over the past 30 days. This month, readers bought products to tidy up their homes, pamper their skin, and lead a greener lifestyle. From … Read more
An Amazon fulfillment center. (GeekWire file photo) Amazon stepped outside of acceptable guidelines and put undue pressure on warehouse workers in Alabama to unionize the Bessemer fulfillment warehouse in April. Efforts by the retail, wholesale and department store union to organize the nearly 6,000 warehouse workers last spring did not garner enough votes to form … Read more
Amazon believes there is a need to raise wages and incentivize it to fill some of its vacancies, resulting in higher costs on its fulfillment network. “We are certainly seeing increased demand for labor,” said Brian Olsavsky, Amazon’s chief financial officer, on a conference call with reporters. “So far we have had good recruitment successes … Read more
An option to move items to a customer’s wish list has long been shown in the Saved for Later section on Amazon.com, but the company is experimenting with removing it, as it lacks here. Some eagle-eyed Amazon customers have seen a change in the options available in their “Saved for Later” lists, and we can … Read more
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (wearing a cowboy hat) with Jose Andres (left of Bezos) and Van Jones (right of Bezos), recipients of $ 100 million charitable gifts from Bezos, announced after his Blue Origin flight into space on Tuesday . (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) After what some critics call the world’s most expensive midlife … Read more
Fakespot, an app that analyzes Amazon reviews to determine which are fake, is no longer available for iOS. Amazon successfully convinced Apple to remove it from the App Store after the company raised concerns that the application was providing misleading information and creating potential security vulnerabilities. The e-commerce giant has confirmed to Engadget that it … Read more