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Convoy, a digital freight booking company, has announced its shutdown due to the inability to find a suitable buyer amidst a challenging freight recession. The company’s failure is especially embarrassing given that it counted creepy billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as prominent supporters.

As Amazon faces an antitrust lawsuit filed by the FTC and 17 states, many of the lawsuit’s allegations focus on how Amazon treats its third-party sellers. As both a platform and a competitor, Amazon has allegedly used its overwhelming power to destroy small businesses that dare to find success on its platform through underhanded tactics and platform manipulation. The stories of individual Amazon sellers provide details of just how Amazon has abused its power.

Amazon faces a major legal challenge as the FTC unveils its 172-page lawsuit, alleging the e-commerce giant of employing anti-competitive practices and exploiting merchants on its platform.

Amazon finds itself in the crosshairs of the FTC and 17 states, facing accusations of engaging in illegal conduct and monopolistic practices within its online store and merchant services.

Arc XP, the tool and software business of Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post, is laying off workers, with several top staffing members being informed that their jobs will be eliminated in the coming weeks.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has unequivocally told employees that non-compliance with the company’s return-to-office mandate “is probably not going to work out for you.”

Oprah Winfrey visited with evacuees affected by the horrific fire in Maui last week, a disaster that has left thousands homeless and has killed over 80 people.

Amazon has reportedly removed several “garbage books” falsely attributed to real authors, believed to be churned out using generative AI, after initially refusing to do so. It took a public backlash from authors and organizations for the tech giant to remove the bogus books from its website.

By the way, the New York Times hid the news of the Post’s $100 million loss under seven paragraphs.

Amazon plans to launch up to 80 satellites per month as it aims to compete with satellite-powered internet connectivity services including SpaceX and OneWeb.

Amazon has announced plans to roll out its palm-scanning payment technology, Amazon One, to all Whole Foods locations by the end of 2023. The creepy technology goes far beyond scanning a customer’s palm print, instead using information like the vein pattern in the hand to establish identity.

Amazon delivery drivers are facing an unexpected privacy invasion as surveillance footage from in-van cameras has started appearing online, particularly on Reddit, despite assurances from the company that these cameras were solely for safety purposes.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin suffered a rocket engine explosion during testing last month, when its BE-4 rocket engine detonated about 10 seconds into the test. The explosion destroyed the engine and severely damaged the company’s testing infrastructure.

The FTC is set to file a landmark antitrust lawsuit against e-commerce giant Amazon. The federal agency believes Amazon uses its market dominance to unfairly disadvantage sellers on the platform who don’t use its logistics services.

On June 23, members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee added a new giveaway to Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company, to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Agreement (NDAA), despite opposition by the U.S. Air Force.

Public Square CEO Michael Seifert told Breitbart News that his company is the “starting point” to countering the corporate push for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.

The FTC is suing Amazon, accusing the tech giant of using deceptive design tactics known as “dark patterns” meant to steer customers into making a specific choice, such as signing up for its Prime program, as well as sabotaging their attempts to cancel.

Earlier this month, Amazon locked a man out of his account, disrupting his extensive smart home system. The suspension was driven by a delivery driver who claimed the man used a racial slur through his automated doorbell system. The only problem is that the man captured the entire interaction on his security system — the communication to the worker was an automated greeting of, “Excuse me, can I help you?”

Ryan will continue lying and driving the Washington Post into a financial ditch for the next two months.

Amazon has agreed to pay more than $30 million to settle FTC allegations of privacy violations violating privacy laws by holding onto children’s data, according to federal filings.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk wound up his visit to China on Thursday to be greeted by the news he has reclaimed the top spot as the world’s richest person.

Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez have gotten engaged four years after going public with their relationship, according to multiple reports citing unnamed sources who say they are familiar with the matter.

E-commerce giant Amazon has warned investors about the decelerating growth in its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), even as the company implements aggressive cost-cutting measures and invests in artificial intelligence.

A recent report cliams that Amazon’s controversial badges that were intended to boost sales for small and black-owned businesses were reportedly assigned to many businesses that are neither.

Commanders Owner Dan Snyder has reportedly asked for $6 billion to purchase his football team. Now, a group, including Magic Johnson, has submitted a bid matching that exact number.

According to reports, NBA great Magic Johnson has joined 76ers owner Josh Harris in a bid to buy the Washington Commanders as Owner Dan Snyder continues to entertain offers to relieve him of his troubled team.

Amazon has announced yet another round of layoffs after letting go of 18,000 workers in November. This time the e-commerce giant will lay off 9,000 employees.

Amazon is facing a new class-action lawsuit alleging that the company failed to disclose its use of facial recognition technology to customers of Amazon Go convenience stores in New York City.

The Biden administration recently changed rocket procurement rules for Phase 3 of the National Security Space Launch System — the program the United States government uses to launch payloads into space — in a way that may provide significant financial benefits to Blue Origin and its founder, Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos.

Internet retail giant Amazon is closing eight of its Amazon Go convenience stores in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City, amid wider cuts in the tech giant’s brick-and-mortar stores. Several of the stores are located in Seattle’s troubled downtown district where crime and open-air drug use are crowding out big business.

Elon Musk’s Twitter is reportedly coming under fire from Amazon for refusing to pay its $70 million bill for cloud servicess despite relying on Amazon Web Services for major parts of Twitter’s operations. Amazon is reportedly threatening to withhold advertising revenues from Musk’s platform in response. 

Amazon has announced that it is putting the construction of HQ2, its second headquarters unveiled to much fanfare in 2018, on hold due to the company’s slow growth in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Parrots Go Bananas, a children’s book authored by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, is not appearing in Amazon searches despite going live on the site two days ago, the book’s publisher tells Breitbart News.

Reports of the death of billionaire Jeff Bezzos’ bid to buy the Washington Commanders were premature, according to a report.

Billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly come up short in his bid to buy the Washington Commanders football team.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos has reportedly hired an investment firm to examine the potential purchase of the Washington Commanders.