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Amazon confirmed that they fired Chris Smalls, a Staten Island warehouse employee who led the call for better pandemic protection.

According to a recent report, two hundred Amazon workers plan to walk out of the company’s New York City warehouse where seven workers have fallen sick with the Chinese virus in protest of poor safety measures.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently stated via social media that he had spoken with the Director General of the WHO to discuss the coronavirus outbreak and hinted that Amazon may deliver test kits globally.

A video posted online and reported on by TMZ  shows a delivery driver spitting on an Amazon package before delivering it to the recipient’s porch.

A recent analysis by the Wall Street Journal shows that top executives in the United States sold a total of roughly $9.2 billion worth of stock between the start of February and the end of last week, saving the executives a potential loss of $1.9 billion. Jeff Bezos sold three percent of his Amazon holdings, worth $3.4 billion, at the beginning of February.

Amazon announced this week that it has kicked almost 4,000 sellers off of its platform for price gouging on emergency items during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

A new report shows that e-commerce sites doubled their ad spending between mid-February and the second week of March as social distancing became the norm due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly shut down a small New York warehouse temporarily after learning that one of its workers tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.

Amazon announced it will suspend stocking non-essential items at distribution centers to focus on “high-demand” critical items. The suspension is slated to last until April 5.

Amazon will invest over $350 million to add 100,000 new jobs and to increase pay by $2 per hour in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic.

Amazon will hire roughly 100,000 new warehouse and delivery employees in the United States amid a “significant” surge in demand sparked by the coronavirus outbreak, according to a company memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

Two brothers are now under investigation in Hixson, Tennesee, for allegedly trying to resell antibacterial products on Amazon for profit during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

According to a recent report, e-commerce giant Amazon refused to close two of its warehouses in Spain despite three confirmed cases of Wuhan coronavirus amongst its workers. The company has even reportedly added dozens of temporary workers for the facilities.

A man with a huge amount of hand sanitizer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was recently barred from selling it online.

A recent report outlines how Google has successfully slowed Amazon’s efforts to move into the smart TV market. Google reportedly wielded its monopoly power over the Android operating system that controls most smart TVs to stop Amazon’s competition.

E-commerce platform Shopify is reportedly giving employees $1,000 each to build out their work-from-home setups after ordering its staff to work remotely due to the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Representatives from major tech giants are set to attend a White House meeting Wednesday to discuss their response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly told its employees in New York and New Jersey to work from home over fears of the spread of Wuhan coronavirus.

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less Amazon Go convenience stores to other retailers.

Amazon announced on Tuesday that an employee working at one of its Seattle, Washington, offices has tested positive for coronavirus.

As many as 3,200 Amazon delivery drivers will be laid off by the end of April due to the company cutting ties with contractors, a recent report states.

A couple came up with a unique way to scare off would-be neighborhood thieves last week in Porterville, California.

Amazon directed all of its 798,000 employees to avoid “non-essential travel” domestically and internationally over concerns about the potential spread of the coronavirus, a company spokesman told Business Insider.

President Donald Trump’s ‘tight labor’ policies are boosting wages, but he should loosen immigration policies to supply business with more imported workers, says the Washington Post’s editorial board.

E-commerce giant Amazon has opened a new checkout-free “Go” Grocery store in Seattle this week, with 5,000 items available across its largest brick and mortar store yet.

Silicon Valley giants including Google, Facebook, and Apple lost more than $200 billion in market capitalization on Monday as the major stock indices plummeted on growing global fears surrounding the coronavirus.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has slammed the new Amazon Studios drama series “Hunters” for a fictionalized scene set at the concentration camp depicting a game of human chess in which the human pieces are eliminated and then killed.

Amazon has been criticized by the Auschwitz Memorial recently for its depiction of the Holocaust in its new series Hunters and for selling books featuring Nazi propaganda on its website.

The Chinese government on Friday tried using its “sharp power” to push online retail colossus Amazon into withdrawing a T-shirt that reads “Coronavirus Made in China” and apologize for ever allowing the garment to be sold.

“Evil men don’t get up in the morning saying ‘I’m going to do evil’. They say: ‘I’m going to make the world a better place.'” — Christopher Booker.

The Washington Post is taking criticism for an op-ed published Tuesday by Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari, titled: “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president.”

The Internet Accountability Project (IAP) filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court on Tuesday for the Oracle v. Google case, contending that Google illegally copied thousands of Oracle’s copyrighted code. IAP senior fellow Rachel Bovard told Breitbart News that this instance serves as a “poster child” for Google’s anticompetitive practices. 

Amazon CEO and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has announced that he is creating a $10 billion fund to combat climate change, calling it the “biggest threat to our planet.”

ROME — Pope Francis has published his long-awaited text on the Amazon region following a hotly contested synod of bishops in the Vatican last fall.

“We have four trillion-dollar companies, one is Microsoft, one is Apple, one is Google, one is Amazon,” Trump said. “So you have an M, you have an A, you have a G, you have an A — You have MAGA.”

Brazilian military leaders consider France to be their country’s biggest threat over the next 20 years as a result of disputes surrounding the Amazon rainforest, according to a leaked document published by Brazilian media this weekend.