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Google CEO Sundar Pichai told analysts that the tech giant plans to slow the pace of hiring after reporting the company’s fifth consecutive quarter of declining sales growth. Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. have dropped by more than 9 percent in intraday trading.

FedEx is shutting down its robotic same-day delivery service. A human in a FedEx uniform will now be delivering those packages instead. According to a leaked memo, “Roxo” the robot “did not meet necessary near-term value requirements.”

Amazon’s turnover rate is extremely high and it costs the company $8 billion annually, according to leaked documents. 

Amazon’s woke (and boring) reimagining of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Rings universe is bleeding viewers when it should be snowballing.

Amazon is facing walkouts and strikes during its “Prime Day” sale season, as the employees who handle the massive amount of packages that fly through the company’s facilities demand better pay, fair treatment, and an end to retaliatory behavior.

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — which was able to garner enough votes in April to create the first U.S. union at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York — is now trying to do the same with another Amazon facility near Albany, the capital of New York State.

More than 2,600 federal officials either own or have traded stock in companies their agencies oversee, according to a damning report by the Wall Street Journal. 

A new survey of the top 20 brands that Generation Z adults have favorable views on shows that Google holds the top two spots among the younger generation, with the tech giant and Google-owned YouTube sitting at the top of the list.

E-commerce giant Amazon is closing all but one of its U.S.-based customer call centers in a bid to cut costs, as the ongoing economic slump continues to impact the tech sector.

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.

Some of Hollywood’s top showrunners, TV creators, and directors have thanked the major studios for protecting their access to abortion.

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.

A recent report from the Wall Street Journal claims that e-commerce giant Amazon hired known dangerous trucking companies twice as often as its competitors.

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.

More than two dozen groups that are critical of Amazon’s anti-competitive practices and surveillance capitalism have urged the FTC to block Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot, which develops Roomba vacuum cleaners. According to the coalition,  “Allowing Amazon to absorb a competing smart home device business with access to incredibly detailed consumer data would endanger fair competition and open markets while also jeopardizing consumer privacy.”

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.