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Amazon has spent over $16 billion on new content for its media streaming services which is over the $13 billion it spent in 2021. This includes securing a deal for NFL's Thursday Night Football (a mere billion) and the estimated production budget of Amazon's Rings of Power television series...

Harassment or no, Bezos and Jassy must go (and testify) according to the FTC who dismissed Amazon's request that they do not testify in a case regarding the difficulty of cancelling Amazon prime memberships. Jeff Bezos of course being the founder and former CEO of Amazon and Andy Jassy the...

Your Amazon Smart Home Surveillance Device that you treat as a pet has just improved in how it can serve Humans. Oh my gosh! Now it'll be easier then ever to connect brands with potential customers! Thank you Alexa! It's in its testing phase now but a broader rollout will occur in 2023...

Amazon says the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is bullying their senior leadership. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/amazon-accuses-ftc-of-harassing-executives-including-jeff-bezos-and-andy-jassy/ In another story, an Albany, New York Amazon Warehouse are apparently seeking to...

'Hundreds' of Amazon Employees Released an Open Letter to Amazon Corporate Leadership Demanding they Take an Unequivocal Stance Supporting Abortion on Demand.

Most news outlets are reporting how Amazon is shutting down a "small downtown" office in Seattle due to increasing crime rates in the City they helped make that way. TPM alleges it's a relocation of 1800 employees though. Amazon is stating it's a temporary relocation however. Plus many of their...

The main British intelligence agencies of MI:5, MI:6, various portions of the Ministry of DefenCe and GCHQ have secured a billion contract with Amazon Web Services over data storage. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/spy-agencies-including-mi5-and-mi6-strike-deal-with-amazon/ar-AAPXFC3

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos likely lied under oath regarding his denial that Amazon uses third party sellers data to better position their in-house brands in search results. https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/577907-matt-stroller-amazons-bezos-likely-lied-under-oath-before-congress

Amazon is now a biggest shipper of parcels then even FedEx... and may soon be surpassing UPS as well! They now have a 21% market share, which is a big increase from the zero percent they had a few years ago and the shift in market share has had a noticeable affect on both FedEx and UPS...

Thousands of internal documents allegedly show Amazon skewing search results to promote own brands in India despite public claims to the contrary. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-india-rigging/

They can roll now... How convenient! Just remember it's basically a robot with wheels, a microphone and a camera recording everything your doing for the benefit of Amazon. (y) https://www.axios.com/amazon-robot-puts-alexa-on-wheels-1bc33857-83d9-4b0b-8fdb-2ad0918ea1f6.html

Amazon is still looking for a way to dominate the world. Despite disappointing forays into bookstores, Amazon themed mall bodegas, Go Grocery Marts and their purchase of Whole Foods, Amazon is still wanting to dominate the brick and mortar "real time" retail business. But not just for complete...

Amazons march towards Automation so it can depend less on its disposable wage slaves has collapsed in one areadue to the removal of over a hundred meatbag employees removed due to a chaotic work situation in it's UK based Amazon Air team. This effort, launched in 2016, was supposed to help...

Amazon's deal to purchase MGM for over 8 billion dollars is now facing a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe. https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/amazons-deal-to-buy-mgm-faces-ftc-antitrust-probe-report/ The new FTC Chairwoman, Lina Khan, is pushing to take the lead on the antitrust review of this...

Also Amazon adjacent news I guess: MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon Founder and until recently, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has just finished a third round of charitable giving since the divorce from her wealthy ex-Husband boosted her worth up to $36 billion dollars and made her the 21st...

The Indian Government is expeditating a probe into allegations of anti-competitive behavior from Amazon Inc, as well as the Wal-Mart owned Flipkart. This is coming at the same time that both Twitter and Facebook are at odds with the government regarding data privacy and supposedly...

A petition urging Jeff Bezos to purchase the Mona Lisa and eat it has surpassed three thousand signatures. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/petition-urging-jeff-bezos-to-buy-and-eat-the-mona-lisa-gains-hundreds-of-signatures

I guess I missed this yesterday! https://thepostmillennial.com/amazon-to-acquire-mgm-for-8-billion-while-senate-votes-to-give-tech-giant-10-billion-handout Congratulations on your 10 billion dollar handout Amazon for your Private Space Program! Still making bank even when dropping an almost...

And the deal is done! https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/amazon-buys-mgm-studios-for-8-45b-in-hollywood-mega-deal/ Amazon buys MGM Studios for 8.45 billion dollars and so the Streaming Wars to make Streaming Television as shitty as Cable Television continues. This is Amazon's biggest acquisition...