House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday night released a “framework” he argued to House Republicans would help rein in Big Tech companies from engaging in censorship and silencing of conservatives.
Amazon’s Prime Day sale has ended but many delivery drivers are still working extended hours to deliver packages. Before its major annual sale, the internet giant gave drivers tips to “keep in top shape,” and assured them that “endorphins are your friend.”
Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Google are waging a massive lobbying offensive in Washington DC to halt the passage of major antitrust legislation.
Amazon and Google are reportedly under investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority over concerns that the ongoing flood of fake five-star reviews on their websites is misleading consumers.
Amazon reportedly bought hundreds of copies of Ibram X. Kendi’s so-called “antiracist” books, which will be distributed to high school students in Arlington, Virginia. The Masters of the Universe also paid Kendi’s coauthor $10,000 to speak to students.
A number of Amazon delivery drivers recently spoke to CNBC about the realities of working for the e-commerce giant. Drivers running stop signs and buckling their seatbelts behind them are just two common tricks used to keep up with Jeff Bezos’ merciless efficiency algorithm.
More than 66,000 people have signed two petitions calling to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to not return to earth after he leaves the planet on a Blue Origin rocket next month.
Amazon has blamed social media companies for its own failure to remove rampant fake reviews from its website, claiming that “bad actors” turn to social networks to buy and sell fake product reviews.
Despite almost two million Californians winning the petition drive to force Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to compete in an expected fall recall election, he is raising more money than any of his challengers. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Newsom raised $16.5
The Tolkien Society announced a weekend diversity seminar that includes topics like “Transgender Realities in The Lord of the Rings.”
The antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee recently released five highly anticipated bills aimed at curbing the power of the Big Tech companies. The House is currently under the control of the Democrats, but these bills have been pitched as a bipartisan effort, led by subcommittee chairman Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and ranking member Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO).
A Texas library issued an apology this week for including a conservative’s best-selling book after activists in the LGBT movement complained.
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has reportedly given away another $2.7 billion of the fortune she gained in divorce to 286 nonprofit organizations bringing her total donations so far to $8 billion. Scott wrote of the massive donation: “People struggling against inequities deserve center stage in stories about change they are creating.”
Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology, which eliminated cashiers in its Amazon Go convenience stores, has now been integrated into a full-size 25,000 square foot Amazon Fresh grocery store for the first time. The system uses camera surveillance, pressure-sensitive shelves, and biometric data to charge customers for items they put in their carts.
The Big Tech Masters of the Universe have come together to urge the SEC to require public companies to regularly disclose climate-related issues to shareholders. The letter was signed by Google’s parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Autodesk, eBay, Facebook, Intel, and Salesforce.
The House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on antitrust has introduced five new bills aimed to curb anticompetitive practices in the tech industry. Although none of them directly address the tech issue of greatest concern to Republicans, censorship, the bills have been presented as a bipartisan effort to rein in the power of dominant Silicon Valley companies.
In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal notes that Amazon’s e-commerce platform is still largely populated by fake reviews and inflated product ratings, giving customers an inaccurate view of product quality.
Many high-profile websites were taken down by an outage at the cloud-computing company Fastly this week. Now it’s reported that the bug was triggered when a single Fastly customer innocently changed their settings, triggering a total systems failure.
Several of the world’s most trafficked websites were inaccessible Tuesday morning, with many impacted sites showing 503 errors.
A 21-year-old Amazon driver was arrested in Castro Valley, California, last week, charged with attacking a 67-year-old woman during a dispute, reportedly about “white privilege.”
Retail giant Walmart is set to give 740,000 employees free Samsung smartphones by the end of the year so they can use a new app to manage schedules and perform a wide variety of other tasks in the store. Employees will be free to use the phone for their personal business as well.
A recent report states that Amazon’s cost-obsessed routing algorithm regularly instructs delivery drivers to walk through heavy traffic to make deliveries in the most efficient way possible.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Friday that Amazon and Barnes & Noble should release Dr. Anthony Fauci’s new book as science fiction.
Workers at Amazon warehouses in the U.S. are injured at a much higher rate than those working similar jobs at other companies, according to a recent report from the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions.
The Washington Post reports that Biden would not raise the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent and instead propose a minimum corporate tax of 15 percent — for companies like Amazon that pay little to nothing in federal taxes.
E-commerce and tech giant Amazon is reportedly showing support for new federal legislation to legalize marijuana and is pledging to no longer screen some of its workers for certain drugs.
Amazon is about to enable a new feature on Alexa and Echo devices on June 8 that will create a wireless mesh service, sharing a slice of users’ internet bandwidth with their nearby neighbors. The steps to disable this intrusive new feature from the Masters of the Universe can be found below.
The nation’s biggest tech corporations have joined forces with the United States Chamber of Commerce and the outsourcing industry to keep foreign visa-holders in American jobs even as about 16.4 million Americans remain jobless.
Amazon’s new “Borat” special has slapped an “untrue” label on the theory that the coronavirus was developed in a lab in Wuhan, China.
Amazon has introduced a small box called “AmaZen” for employees to sit in for their “mental wellbeing.” The kiosk was immediately mocked across social media as a “despair closet.”
E-commerce giant Amazon’s ad revenue is now more than twice as big as Snapchat, Twitter, Roku, and Pinterest combined.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) fired a verbal warning shot on Wednesday morning following the news of Amazon’s deal to purchase entertainment company MGM, pointing to Amazon’s status as a “monopoly platform” that already “owns e-commerce, shipping, groceries & the cloud.”
Amazon is officially acquiring the legendary Hollywood studio MGM in a blockbuster billion deal that will boost the Silicon Valley giant’s already sizable presence in Hollywood and give a competitive edge to its Prime Video streaming service.
Last summer, Amazon announced a $10 million donation for “organizations supporting justice and equity,” including a donation directly to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. At the time, BLM Global Network was sponsored by Thousand Currents, a non-profit whose vice-chairman is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted left-wing terrorist.
Amazon is reportedly closing in on a blockbuster deal to pay $9 billion for the storied Hollywood studio MGM. The acquisition would enlarge Amazon’s footprint in Hollywood and give it control over valuable movie titles including the James Bond and Rocky franchises, as well as numerous classics such as The Wizard of Oz.
Some of the largest delivery companies in the United States, including Amazon, Uber, and various food delivery firms, reportedly fell victim to a basic “fake driver” scam, according to a recent Justice Department complaint. The scam involved selling driver identities to others, meaning criminals could deliver customer’s food or drive them to the airport.
Seven “noose-like ropes” found on a construction site in the heavily Democrat city of Windsor, Connecticut, forced Amazon to shut down the site.
A recent report claims that e-commerce giant Amazon is in talks to purchase the film and TV studio MGM for about $9 billion dollars.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat who represents the state of Washington where Amazon’s world headquarters is located, is pushing for NASA to reopen a competition for third-party contractors to build its next lunar lander, after Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin lost out to Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the competition for the contract last month.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has purchased a 417-foot superyacht that is so massive it requires its own “support yacht” with a helipad that will follow Bezos’ new $500 million toy wherever it sails.