Amazon designer and activist Emily Cunningham speaks at a rally organized by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice outside the company’s shareholders meeting in May 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Updated with former employee billing and statement details. Amazon reached a settlement with two former employees who criticized its position on climate change and … Read more
Amazon is introducing a software update for its Kindle, Paperwhite and Oasis devices that could make them easier to use. The company announced that the changes would be made to Kindles Aug. 8 in the coming weeks. First, with the update, you can swipe down from the screen to adjust the screen brightness, toggle between … 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 enjoy warm summer nights while they still can, tidy up their home office … Read more
Amazon is getting into buy-now-pay-later. The company just announced a partnership with Affirm, a major player in the BNPL space. Customers now have the option of paying in a range of monthly installments at the checkout for purchases of USD 50 or more. In a statement, the companies said they had already started testing the … Read more
Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Long-time Amazon Web Services boss Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and long-time lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, left the Seattle company this month after more than 23 years. Business Insider reported Wednesday that Bell was joining Microsoft. The … Read more
Amazon Launchpad enables users to discover must-have products | CNN Underlined document.F = Object “), e.close (), f = eF; n -;) delete f.prototype[o[n]]; return f ()}; e.exports = Object.create || function (e, t) {var n; return null! == e? (l.prototype = r (e), n = new l, l .prototype = null, n[c]= e): n … Read more
CNN – Swimsuits are one of those things that either makes you lose $ 100 on an adorable suit that you want to wear for the next few years or someone who loves to buy $ 20 suits that … OK, we guess? But what about a cheap swimsuit that is high quality, actually cute, … Read more
Gisela Hausmann is an author and veteran of the logistics industry who writes in her book “Inside Amazon: My Story” about her experiences working at an Amazon delivery station. Gisela Hausmann had a unique perspective on Amazon when she started a frontline job at one of the company’s delivery centers in South Carolina in 2019. … Read more
Amazon launched India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the country’s biggest movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, as the company seeks to attract more users to the world’s second most populous country. The company, which introduced Samuel Jackson’s voice on Alexa in the US in 2019, said users in India could add the voice of … Read more
Rohit Prasad, Vice President and Senior Scientist, Amazon Alexa Team. When Amazon’s first Alexa-enabled smart speaker hit the market in 2014, it was a novelty: a voice-activated interface for processing natural language that could perform a number of simple tasks. Fast forward to today, and the internet connected platform has rapidly expanded and become its … Read more