Jeff Bezos - Page 11

Amazon is deploying AI known as “distance assistants,” which will warn the company’s warehouse workers if they get too close to their co-workers as the company continues its battle against the Chinese virus.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Amazon is pledging its support to the Black Lives Matter movement with $10 million in funding for social justice advocacy while importing foreign workers over hiring qualified Americans. 

A recent investigation from ProPublica reveals that while brands have previously been able to bid for the top slot in Amazon’s search listings, the e-commerce giant has begun using the position for its own private-label items, raising antitrust concerns.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, scolded a customer in an email for saying “all lives matter” and said he fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Amazon has reversed its refusal to publish an e-book from author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, a prominent critic of the ongoing Chinese virus lockdowns.

Amazon, the world’s dominant online distributor of books and e-books and the world’s leading online retailer, is censoring a book about the Chinese virus from lockdown critic and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson. Jeff Bezos and company gave Berenson a suggestion on how to adjust his approach: “Please consider removing references to COVID-19 for this book.”

Amazon announced this week that it is ending its two-dollar pay increase for warehouse workers instituted after the outbreak of the Chinese virus. Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has enjoyed a net worth increase of $32 billion since January.

According to a recent report, local news stations across the United States have run news segments scripted and produced by e-commerce giant Amazon. Unsurprisingly, the segments were overly positive about Jeff Bezos’ company and its employment practices.

The net worth of the United States’ billionaire class has increased by $434 billion during lockdown orders implemented by most states to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

According to a recent report, American billionaires have enjoyed a huge boost in net worth in the first two months of the Chinese virus pandemic, earning around $434 billion since March 19, when many states went into lockdown.

Amazon already ranks as the country’s No. 1 apparel retailer and owns the Whole Foods grocery chain. Now the e-commerce empire is reportedly looking to grow even bigger with a possible acquisition of JC Penney — the venerable department store chain that recently declared bankruptcy in the wake of the Chinese virus pandemic.

Former Google CEO and Clinton lackey Eric Schmidt is giving $4.7 million to NPR to expand the left-wing network’s reach in the Midwest and California with the creation of two newsrooms.

Amazon-owned live-streaming site Twitch has reportedly appointed a transgender “deer-girl” with links to the ADL to its “Safety Advisory Council.” The streamer, known as “FerociouslySteph” on the site, argues that voice chat in video games is a tool of oppression and that “a lot of you gamers are actually white supremacists.”

A startling new investigation has revealed that Amazon provides charitable funding to the controversial and hyper liberal Southern Poverty Law Center through the AmazonSmile customer giving program.

E-commerce giant Amazon reportedly refuses to make company CEO Jeff Bezos available for testimony in Congress, instead stating that it would “make the appropriate executive available” in response to requests from the House Judiciary Committee.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is reportedly on track to become the world’s first trillionaire, with a recent study showing that his net worth has grown an average of 34 percent over the last five years. The research predicts Bezos will become a trillionaire in 2026.

E-commerce giant Amazon will reportedly stop paying its warehouse workers an extra $2 per hour at the end of this month. One Amazon employee called the move “disgraceful,” claiming, “It just shows how very little regard Amazon has for its overworked employees.”

The Associated Press Style Guide, considered by many in journalism as the standard for style guidance, recently announced the proper language to refer to a “woman in a long-term sexual relationship with, and financially supported by a man who is married to someone else” is not “mistress.”

Tim Bray, a vice president at Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce giant Amazon, has resigned in protest of the company’s treatment of workers who have criticized the company over inadequate protections against the Chinese virus.

Amazon founder, Washington Post owner and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has been called before Congress to address charges that Amazon has potentially criminally misled the public over its use of data from third-party sellers on the platform.

Amazon hid information of a coronavirus outbreak from employees at one of its distribution centers in New York City, said Chris Smalls, who was fired by Amazon after he blew the whistle on the outbreak at his warehouse and helped organize a walkout to protest the unsafe working conditions there. 

E-commerce giant Amazon has reported a surge in sales during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, but increased costs due to the pandemic will cost the company at least $4 billion in the second quarter, according to CEO Jeff Bezos.

E-commerce giant Amazon reportedly purchased thermal cameras to monitor workers’ temperatures during the Chinese virus pandemic from a Chinese firm blacklisted by the United States over allegations that it helped China detain and monitor Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.

According to a recent report, e-commerce giant Amazon may have violated worker safety laws and New York State’s whistle-blower protections when it fired an employee who protested the company’s coronavirus response. The New York Times reports that New York Attorney General Leticia James.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, urging him to open a criminal antitrust investigation against Amazon for stifling competition.

In a recent report, the New York Times outlines how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has become increasingly involved in the company’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic despite previously distancing himself from day-to-day operations.

The Republican Party should always abide by its core principles, and yet at the same time, it should return to its Lincolnian roots, becoming the avowed party of first responders, blue-collars, and other frontline workers—and joined by, of course, soldiers, homemakers, and believers.  

Hunter Biden still owns ten percent of Chinese company Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), an investment firm funded by China, noted Peter Schweizer.

According to a recent report, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos are actually getting richer as much of the world is in lockdown due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The combined wealth of the two billionaires has increased by ten percent since January.

If you’re a business selling your products through Amazon, the e-commerce giant may use data on your products and sales to develop its own, competing products, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon announced this week that it has been approved by the Department of Agriculture to accept food stamp benefits in seven states. The announcement comes at the same time as Amazon’s stock is soaring — last week the stock jumped more than five percent in one day, increasing CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth by $6.4 billion in a single day. 

The Amazon-owned grocery store Whole Foods is allegedly tracking employees and scoring stores that it deems at risk of unionizing according to a recent report. The company is allegedly using a variety of metrics to grade stores resulting in a “heatmap” showing locations most at risk of unionization.

Over 300 Amazon employees are reportedly planning on calling out of work starting on Tuesday to protest the e-commerce giant’s treatment of workers during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, according to the Hill.

Amazon reportedly told members of its affiliates program on Tuesday that it will be cutting commission rates beginning on April 21. The “Amazon Associates” affiliate marketing program pays a percentage of sales to publishers that direct consumers to Amazon via links on their website and social media.

Amazon fired at least two programmers last week after they aired public criticisms of workplace conditions at the company’s warehouses. Warehouse employees have accused Amazon of failing to take simple precautions to mitigate the spread of the Chinese virus around their facilities.

Amazon announced on Monday it will be putting people who are new to ordering online groceries on a waiting list because of a surge in demand.