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An Amazon employee escaped with injuries after hurling himself off of the company’s Seattle HQ in a suspected suicide attempt, following a company decision to place him on an employee Performance Improvement Plan.

With a 9 percent crash of “FANG” tech stocks in the post-election stock boom, Wall Street is fretting that President Donald Trump could be a modern day “trust-buster.”

The Internet Association, a group of prominent technology companies that include Facebook, Twitter, Google, Netflix, and Amazon, penned an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, asking for his support on a series of policies.

The most expensive home in San Francisco, a $21.8 million Baroque Revival-style mansion in Pacific Heights, was purchased by Kyle Vogt this month — the 30-year-old billionaire “Robot Guru” who sold two billion-dollar startups in two years.

Twitter’s stock collapsed on October 14 — at one point falling over 8 percent — after potential suitor Salesforce withdrew its interest following the release of a “Teen Survey” that found virtually no interest in the Twitter brand by youth.

Disney has significant advantages over other bidders to acquire Twitter. First, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey serves on Disney’s Board of Directors. But the biggest advantage is that Disney owns a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the tech spinout from Major League Baseball that owns the app powering Twitter’s streaming of NFL games on the web.

Online retailer Amazon has stepped in to ‘fix’ the scathing reviews given by its customers of Hillary Clinton’s campaign book, Stronger Together.

Amazon are on track to open as many as one hundred physical pop-up stores around the country within the next year.

An “online abuse” specialist who works for Amazon has been revealed as an online abuser.

Amazon has not seen a British sales dip since the vote to leave the European Union, its new UK boss said on Wednesday.

China is waging an information war against Japan and the West. Much of this war is taking place in Hollywood.

LONDON (Reuters) – Amazon has launched a British version of its U.S. AmazonFresh food delivery service, stepping up the pressure on the traditional big supermarkets already locked in a brutal price war. In a long-anticipated move to break into Britain’s

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich had scheduled a fundraiser with Donald Trump at his Silicon Valley home on June 1, but it had to be canceled after someone leaked it to the media.

Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, disagree on taxes, encryption, and, of course, who should be the next president. Rather strongly, in fact, on all three questions.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacted to a report that the Washington Post has 20 reporters planning to dig into his life by arguing Post owner Jeff Bezos is using the paper “or political purposes to save Amazon, in terms of

The Texas Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform and Relief was in Houston on Tuesday taking testimony from Texans affected by the strain of rising property taxes and the burdensome appraisal process.

A new study from TimeTrade reveals that millennial shoppers’ rising expectation for “on-demand” products and services is undermining online shopping and driving more traffic to physical stores.

the FCC wants to unlock the “set-top box” that brings cable television into your home, so you won’t have to rent those boxes from the cable companies any more.

More than 13,000 Amazon customers are calling on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to ‘Dump Trump,’ signing a petition that requests Amazon stop carrying the GOP frontrunner’s Donald J. Trump menswear collection.

Cybersecurity leader SecureWorks Corp. may be the first tech IPO filing that actually completes an initial public offering (IPO) in 2016.

Bruce Jenner is set to join the cast of Amazon’s Emmy-winning show Transparent, the show’s creator confirmed Saturday. In an interview at the GLAAD Media Awards over the weekend, showrunner Jill Soloway confirmed that the reality TV star and former Olympian

Actor Jeffrey Tambor, who plays transgender woman Maura Pfefferman on Amazon’s Transparent, said he believes “people’s lives depend” on his award-winning show.

Whether you’re frustrated by poor game localization or are just a fan of Japanese gaming in general, Amazon Japan has decided to help you out.

From the downfall of wise King Solomon, to the miraculous resistance of Hezekiah against a besieging Assyrian army, the Bible offers political insights that pre-date Plato’s Republic and yet remain relevant to our own time.

Twelve indigenous children from the Achuar tribes in Peru have died of rabies after being bitten by blood-sucking bats, while several more are still battling the disease.

Amazon has just added GameLift and Lumberyard to their Amazon Web Services platform. These, alongside Twitch integration, combine to form a surprisingly robust toolset for aspiring independent game developers.

Amazon set a quarterly earnings record of $1 a share on $35.7 billion in sales last quarter, but traders sent the stock plunging over 7% Friday after the e-commerce company missed Wall Street’s earnings estimates by 36 percent.

The Financial Times takes a look at the under-reported international tax crisis, which could spiral into a complete meltdown due to cases involving Google, Apple, and Amazon.

Bowing to left-wing pressure, U.S. online retailer Amazon.com has taken down “wartime refugee” costumes for children on its Italian and German sites dw.com reports. To British and American readers the move would seem to come at an odd time, but for

Miley Cyrus will star with Woody Allen in his new television series for Amazon.

Watch out, GameStop. Amazon has just dropped a deal that could very easily spell the end of midnight launch hype.

One of the stars of Amazon’s hit series “Transparent” says the critically acclaimed show is changing the way people view and interact with the transgender community.

A solemn hymn released by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) unexpectedly hit no.1 in the German singles chart in time for New Year’s Eve, but distributor Amazon has signalled their displeasure by giving away their

A wordless hymn released to raise funds for the German anti-Islamisation group PEGIDA has knocked British pop sensation Adele off of the top of the Amazon singles chart. The instrumental tune, named “Gemeinsam sind wir stark!” Or “Together we’re strong” has

In what appears to be a subtle but disturbing trend, children are being targeted by Islamic supremacists in a most diabolical way. Islamic messages and prayers are implanted in beloved toys. This year for Christmas, no less – Christmas – toy F-16’s were fitted out with Islamic prayers instead of jet noises.

Now that his company has mastered online shopping, original programming and books, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his film and TV studio has its sights set on winning an Oscar.