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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and five members of the House of Representatives are calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Amazon’s proposed acquisition of iRobot, the company that produces the popular Roomba cleaning robots.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google control over 70 percent of the European cloud market, giving three U.S. tech giants effective control over European websites’ ability to stay online.

MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Jeff Bezos who transformed into a billionaire philanthropist after a $36 billion divorce settlement, has filed for divorce from her second husband. Her second marriage, to a Seattle area science teacher, lasted just 18 months.

Amazon had to walk back an announced pay raise for corporate employees after a computer glitch miscalculated their compensation, according to internal emails obtained by Business Insider. Managers were advised that they would have to prepare for an “uncomfortable conversation” with employees losing out on the raise they were promised.

The FTC has launched an investigation into tech giant Amazon’s proposed $1.7 billion purchase of iRobot, the company behind Roomba. The acquisition has raised privacy concerns as it may give the e-commerce giant the ability to map customers’ houses.

Amazon-owned MGM’s “Ring Nation” show hasn’t debuted yet and has already generated controversy from leftist activist groups who believe the series will glorify digital surveillance culture. Now come accusations that the light-hearted show — think America’s “Funniest Home Videos” but based around Amazon Ring security cameras — is racist, with claims that it will harm “black and brown people.”

California has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the company violated state competition law through its pricing rules.

So, because some of us found the first two episodes of Amazon’s dull, lifeless, tedious, self-righteous, and silly Rings of Power series dull, lifeless, tedious, self-righteous, and silly, Amazon says we’re racist.

Turkish-American streamer Hasan Piker cheered the Queen’s death, giving the middle finger to the camera and saying “f*** you, Queen” and later dancing on Twitch to celebrate the news.

Amazon released the full trailer for the upcoming “queer love triangle” My Policeman starring Harry Styles following woke backlash against the film’s star.

The cast of Amazon’s “Rings of Power” has publicly denounced what it called “relentless racism” that has allegedly been directed at its BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) actors since the series went live last week.

A three-day Boise, Idaho Pride festival, sponsored by major corporations and beginning this week, will feature “drag kids” as young as 11.

A new report from CNBC reveals that Amazon powered down all of its solar rooftops in the U.S. last year following a series of major fires at facilities throughout the country.

Rings of Power is set thousands of years before Lord of the Rings and revolves around characters I care nothing about.

Amazon has temporarily shut off user reviews for The Rings of Power on Prime Video, claiming to take this action so it can filter out “trolls” leaving negative comments about the new series.

A woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon that alleges the company has engaged in racial discrimination by launching a grant program that excludes whites and Asians.

Privacy experts are warning of Amazon’s growing surveillance powers following the company’s acquisition of clinic chain One Medical and iRobot, the company behind Roomba.

Amazon’s syndicated Ring Nation series will feature videos taken from Americans’ Ring doorbells and other smart home cameras, a concept that even left-wing politicians and activists are slamming as “dystopian” and “surveillance” television.

Author Jack Carr is handling the freak-out by the fascist left over “The Terminal List” beautifully.

Director Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives is an informative but distant and uninvolving look at 2018’s miraculous Tham Luang cave rescue of 12 young soccer players and their adult coach.

Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly purchased iRobot, the maker of the popular automated home vacuum Roomba, for $1.7 billion. Jeff Bezos’ company is likely just as interested in the ability to map customers’ homes as it is in adding vacuums to its growing empire of products and services.

Amazon’s very non-woke Terminal List received scathing reviews but is currently the second-most popular show in America.

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the controversial video blogging platform TikTok, quietly took control of China’s largest chain of private obstetrics and gynecology hospitals in June.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) recently sent a letter to the FTC requesting a review of the proposed $3.9 billion merger between Amazon and One Medical, a chain of medical clinics whose acquisition would mark Amazon’s latest move to take over the healthcare industry.

Three Amazon warehouses were visited by OSHA inspectors this week as part of a growing probe into potential workplace hazards.

Amazon is not sweating the corporate tax hike in the Joe Manchin-approved climate spending bill.

The controversial megayacht of Amazon’s climate crazy tsar Jeff Bezos appears to have avoided egging while sneaking through Rotterdam.

Nearly 600 male Hollywood producers showrunners have signed a letter to executives at Hollywood studios demanding that abortion “safety protocols” be put in place for pregnant employees in pro-life states.

Amazon announced a $2 billion loss for the second quarter this week. Although the company performed well against expectations for sales, the e-commerce giant also took a massive hit over its large investment in electric truck company Rivian.

A Brazilian investigative journalist group on Monday published documents that showed the “four most valuable companies in the world” – namely Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon – purchased gold illegally mined in the Amazon region for use in their electronic products.

Amazon is continuing its expansion into the healthcare industry, announcing the acquisition of One Medical clinics in a $3.9 billion deal.

Amazon appears to sponsor an organization that targets children for conversations about being transgender and nonbinary.

Amazon is finally taking action against fake reviews on its platform, suing the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups used to coordinate fake reviews on the site.

The Wall Street Journal has revealed in an exclusive report that e-commerce giant Amazon has been reducing the number of items it sells under its own brands due to poor sales in recent months. The company is also facing intense regulatory pressure over its private label business, which is accused of using sales data from other brands on the Amazon platform to hijack their customer base with an inferior copy of their products.

Corporations including Coca-Cola and Amazon have called on the Conservative leadership candidates to continue Boris Johnson’s green agenda.

Tech giant Amazon is reportedly partnering with the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to develop a cancer vaccine and has already begun recruiting for clinical trials.