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Report: Amazon Nearing $9 Billion Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM

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.

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Amazon, Uber Let Criminals Use ‘Fake Driver’ Scam to Become Your Driver

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.

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Database Mixup Exposes 200,000 Fake Amazon Reviewers

A misconfigured database has reportedly exposed what appears to be a major coordinated scheme by Amazon vendors to generate fake reviews for their products. A China-based server exposed a scheme involving at least 200,000 people leaving fake five-star reviews for products on the site.

Investigator says Amazon chief's phone hacked by Saudis

Pandemic Prize: Amazon’s Q1 Sales Soar 44%

E-commerce giant Amazon released its first-quarter results on Thursday, reporting a 44  percent sales increase. The results blew analysts’ expectations out of the water. The Masters of the Universe say they expect their sales to continue to climb in the second quarter.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during the JFK Space Summit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential

Anti-Defamation League: Amazon’s Twitch Should Censor Even More

The far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has said that Twitch, the Amazon-owned video streaming platform, should invest even more resources into censorship tools — even after the platform twice banned Donald Trump, first temporarily during the campaign season, and then permanently in January.

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Amazon’s Palm-Scanning Payment Tech Is Coming to Whole Foods

Amazon is reportedly testing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods, starting with a single store in Amazon’s home city of Seattle. The biometric system identifies not only the customer’s palm print but even the pattern of veins in their hand to identify them for payment processing.

Amazon One Palm Scanner

Josh Hawley Introduces ‘Bust Up Big Tech’ Act

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) will today introduce a bill targeting Big Tech monopolies, in particular the practice of favoring their own products and services in online marketplaces and search engines that they own, a practice that Amazon and Google are often accused of.

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‘Small Business Rising’ Coalition Targets Amazon’s Monopoly Power

According to a recent report, merchant groups representing thousands of small businesses are forming a national coalition called “Small Business Rising” to campaign for stricter antitrust laws in an effort to force e-commerce giant Amazon to spin off some of its business lines and stop selling its own products in competition with other brands and sellers.

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos provides the keynote address at the Air Force As

Amazon Apologizes for Saying Drivers Aren’t Forced to Pee in Bottles

E-commerce giant Amazon has issued a surprising apology, promising to find a solution to the issue of its delivery drivers being forced to urinate in bottles due to a lack of bathroom breaks. In its apology, which is very rare for the e-commerce behemoth, Jeff Bezos’ company calls its statements on the matter an “own-goal.”

Bezos, world's richest man, shows won't be pushed around